Care Coordination

As hospitals and health systems in Florida grappled with the aftermath of Hurricane Ian on Sept. 29, organizations in South Carolina prepared for the effects of the storm.

Operational barriers and a lack of collaboration between emergency medicine (EM) and hospital medicine (HM) clinicians can often hamper efforts to improve clinical quality. The residual strain of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing recovery from the shifting patient volumes and…

Los Angeles-based CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, one of the highest volume emergency rooms in Los Angeles County, has opened a fast track emergency department to expedite care. 

Wellstar Health System is closing the emergency department at Atlanta Medical Center Oct. 14 before the hospital shuts down Nov. 1. 

A study published as Hurricane Ian makes its way through Florida found that at least 50 percent of hospitals in 25 metropolitan areas along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of flooding from a Category 2 hurricane. 

Hospitals and health systems in Florida adjusted their operations in preparation for Hurricane Ian, and at least one facility had reported damage as the storm battered the state.

Oklahoma City-based OU Health will cut "some" gender medicine services after state lawmakers threatened to withhold funding, ABC affiliate KOCO reported Sept. 27. 

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth is using a command center it calls "mission control" to improve its care coordination metrics, according to a Sept. 19 article from the health system.

Hospitals in Florida are preparing for the impact of Hurricane Ian this week, according to a Sept. 28 report from the Nashville Business Journal.

Children's hospitals across the U.S. are being inundated with patients sick with respiratory viruses.