Little Rock, Ark.-based Baptist Health has launched Arkansas’ first centralized OB Hub, using AI-driven technology to continuously monitor mothers and babies across its seven delivery hospitals, which care for more than 6,600 babies annually. The system provides labor and delivery…
Care Coordination
Health systems are investing in care coordination programs for patients who visit the emergency department most often, many of them for needs the ED can’t meet. By connecting patients with housing, food, transportation, behavioral health and medical services, the goal…
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine, which ranks No. 8 nationally for transplant volume, established a transplant institute Oct. 27. Over 62 years, Northwestern Medicine clinicians have performed more than 12,100 solid organ transplants, according to the system. The system has the largest…
Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan, Ill., has lost its level 2 trauma center designation after its contracted anesthesia group suspended services over a missed payment. The Illinois Department of Public Health revoked the designation because the hospital lacks anesthesia…
A patient who comes back to the emergency department repeatedly is often bringing more than a medical problem. Unstable housing, mental health and substance use challenges, food insecurity, unreliable transportation and trouble getting follow-up care can all send individuals back…
Advertisement
Vizient recently launched a calculator for hospital leaders to estimate financial losses from patients leaving the emergency department before receiving treatment. The ED throughput opportunity calculator asks for inputs of annual ED volume, a left-before-treatment-completion rate and whether the hospital…
Every week, Detroit-based Henry Ford Health’s behavioral health service was seeing 500 to 600 referrals from patients arriving in primary care. Deepak Prabhakar, MD, wanted to make sure those referrals end with the right care, not just an appointment. The…
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, both based in Boston, will transition to a new care model for breast cancer services, effective Oct. 19. Outpatient breast oncology services will be provided at Dana-Farber, while breast cancer surgical…
Hospitals are losing their usual pressure valves for crowded emergency departments. A third state recently banned ambulance diversion over ED overcrowding, joining Massachusetts, which has barred the practice for 17 years. At the same time, layoffs, called-off deals and thin…
At New York City-based Montefiore Einstein, the art and science of emergency department efficiency comes from the right pathways and communication. “When I started my career, one of my bosses told me, ‘Janine, right now you’re taking care of 15…