Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is improving access to care outside of traditional clinical settings with its Community Health Improvement Corps. The Corps is a workforce of community health workers with clinical training who are supported by a registered nurse…
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When the Long Beach, Calif., City Council voted this spring to push e-bikes off city sidewalks, the decisive evidence came not from police crash reports but from a hospital trauma registry. The trauma department at Long Beach Memorial had logged…
Hartford-based Connecticut Children’s is seeking approval to relocate inpatient pediatric services from Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, Conn., to its Hartford campus, citing nearly a decade of low patient volume at the Waterbury unit, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s Aug.…
Wildfires that broke out in the Spokane, Wash., area the afternoon of Aug. 1 prompted mass evacuations affecting an estimated 60,000 residents, and forced hospital and clinic closures across the region, according to reporting from The New York Times and…
Behavioral health patients often wait longer than other emergency department patients for a bed. Along the way, patients may end up receiving care in the most expensive setting available, or experiencing distress in an often-hectic environment. Now, health systems are…
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More than 155 million people visit U.S. emergency departments each year and for many, the first critical assessment happens long before they reach the hospital. 70% of inpatient admissions come from the ED, and approximately 40% of those ED admissions…
A water main break in the Winston-Salem, N.C., area has prompted Novant Health to pause elective surgical procedures and transition to virtual appointments, according to a July 30 update from the system. Elective surgeries are paused at three locations in…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan faces a complaint alleging it used an autonomous digital system to triage and refer behavioral health patients in Northern California without oversight from licensed clinicians. The complaint, submitted to the California Department of Managed…
Deferred elective surgery was a through-line of second-quarter earnings calls at four of the country’s largest for-profit hospital operators. But their executives do not agree on what is driving the slowdown, or whether it represents lost demand at all. Nashville,…
As a practicing radiologist, I never expected healthcare marketing to become one of my primary areas of focus. Yet the more I think about patient access, the more difficult it becomes to separate the two. Helping patients access care has…