Rural hospitals account for more than one-third of U.S. hospitals providing inpatient maternity care to Medicaid enrollees, though states vary widely in how much they rely on rural facilities for that care, according to an Aug. 26 KFF analysis. In…
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Holdrege, Neb.-based Phelps Memorial Health Center launched a daytime hospitalist program, Central Nebraska Today reported Aug. 26. In the program, Brooke Cast, PA-C, and Michaela Parrish, PA-C, will provide dedicated inpatient coverage services including evaluating and treating hospitalized patients, communicating…
Health system operating margins are currently being held hostage by a systemic breakdown in post-acute care transitions. Across the country, hospitalists regularly delay discharging complex chronic patients out of fear that releasing them into a rural care desert will all…
Across the nation, high-volume emergency departments are finding new ways to improve efficiency without sacrificing patient experience or quality care. EDs are continuing to face challenges in patient wait times, boarding and patients leaving without being seen. On Aug. 6,…
Washington, DC.-based George Washington University Hospital’s midwifery program has no midwives after its former providers declined employment contracts with Capital Medical Group, according to an Aug. 24 report from The GW Hatchet. CMG, a physician-led nonprofit subsidiary of Universal Health…
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The steady migration of physicians away from independent practice is often framed as a hospital consolidation story. Thomas Balcezak, MD, executive vice president and chief clinical officer of New Haven, Conn.-based Yale New Haven Health, sees another force driving much…
A fast-moving wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills has forced two Northern Nevada Health System facilities in the Reno, Nev., area to evacuate patients and close, according to CBS News and The New York Times. Both facilities remain closed with…
An individual experiencing a behavioral health crisis walks into the emergency department. Instead of lying on a gurney in the hallway or sitting in a chaotic waiting room, they’re led to a recliner chair in a calm environment and seen…
Watsonville (Calif.) Community Hospital has temporarily suspended operations at its neonatal intensive care unit amid ongoing nursing shortages, according to an Aug. 19 KSBW 8 report. The Level II NICU has been unavailable for several weeks. Hospital officials did not…
Emergency department visits rose in June and uncompensated care climbed across most of the country, according to Kaufman Hall’s latest “National Hospital Flash Report.” ED visits were up 4% year over year and 7% from May, the report found. Year…