Capacity: It’s a word that comes up in nearly every conversation with hospital and health system leaders today. As the nation’s population ages and the healthcare sector faces a wave of workforce retirements, capacity has become a defining operational challenge.…
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OhioHealth Berger Hospital in Circleville began a phased reopening June 19 after being temporarily closed as a precaution when an overheating pump generated smoke in the hospital’s basement, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s. Since the evacuation on June 18, staff…
Chicago-based Weiss Memorial Hospital evacuated its inpatient unit this week after its air conditioning system failed, the Chicago Sun-Times reported June 18. Staff at the 239-bed acute care hospital discovered three of the four AC units were not working two…
To expand neonatology care access in Arizona, Phoenix Children’s is sharing its neonatologists with three medical centers part of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based HonorHealth, according to a June 16 news release. Phoenix Children’s now provides neonatal care at the level III NICU…
AdventHealth Manchester, a 49-bed hospital in Kentucky, has joined the affiliate network of Lexington-based Kentucky Children’s Hospital through a new clinical collaboration aimed at expanding pediatric care access. The partnership gives AdventHealth Manchester access to pediatric-focused training, education, clinical tools…
St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth have finalized an agreement to increase access to pediatric care in southwest Missouri. Four notes: 1. The partnership aims to bring advanced care to Springfield and surrounding communities, beginning with the creation…
When medically complex patients require hospital care, they tend to experience longer recovery times than other patients do and are more likely to readmit to the ICU.1,2 Kindred Hospitals, a network of long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs), is focused on…
The University of California, San Francisco began construction on a $1.5 billion children’s hospital that will include the city’s first inpatient unit for pediatric behavioral care, the San Francisco Examiner reported June 9. The UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is…
Nineteen critical access hospitals in Nebraska are partnering to launch the Nebraska High Value Network. Through the network, the hospitals will collaborate on business and clinical initiatives to improve care, control costs and support value-based care arrangements with payers, according…
Trenton, N.J.-based Capital Health has shuttered its satellite emergency department and outpatient clinic in the city due to structural issues. The two-hospital system on June 4 learned of significant structural problems with an adjoining building that threaten the integrity of…