Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is seeing softer elective surgery volumes as patients lose coverage through the health insurance exchanges, with broader affordability pressures potentially contributing to the slowdown, CFO Mike Marks said Sept. 15 at the Jefferies Healthcare Services and…
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A 10-day stretch of high temperatures this summer recorded about 15% of the 145,321 heat-related emergency department visits in the U.S. between Jan. 1 and Sept. 10, according to research published July 17 in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly…
Almost 90% of seven-day hospital readmissions are not preventable, according to a study published Aug. 31 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Researchers at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital reviewed 244 seven-day readmissions among 204 adult patients discharged from…
Immediate jeopardy has been fully removed at Ascension St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., following a Sept. 4 revisit survey, according to a Sept. 16 letter obtained by Becker’s. But a 99-page Statement of Deficiencies shows the hospital remains out…
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center was awarded $56.25 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration to lead the newly established Pediatric Prevention Network. Previously known as the Pediatric Pandemic Network, the new network will be dedicated to pediatric preparedness,…
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Vandalia Health Grafton (W.Va.) Hospital will temporarily go on full diversion and shut down inpatient services Sept. 19 in order to undergo planned electrical system upgrades, The Mountain Statesman reported. The emergency department will remain open for walk-in patients only,…
Most hospitals and health systems left the skilled nursing facility business long ago, leaders told Becker’s. However, amid higher boarding, an expanding older population and fewer overall SNFs, many healthcare leaders are now leasing nursing home beds to improve throughput. …
A Dallas-based asthma program that offers care coordination, telehealth and home assessments has reduced emergency department visits and inpatient admissions 70% over two years, the Children’s Hospital Association said Sept. 10. For 25 years, Children’s Health has run an asthma…
Patient flow is not fundamentally an information problem. It is a coordination problem. Health systems have more operational data, alerts, messages and real-time visibility than ever before, but all of that information still has to be interpreted, prioritized and acted…
Northwell Mather Hospital has a special unit designed to help complex patients discharge straight home after only two weeks. In 2007, the Port Jefferson, N.Y.-based hospital opened a transitional care unit as part of a demonstration program ran across the…