Care Coordination

Kentucky Children’s Hospital, part of Lexington, Ky.-based UK HealthCare, has launched a statewide affiliate network to expand access to pediatric care through collaboration with community hospitals. The first official affiliate, Georgetown Community Hospital, joined the network in March. The KCH…

North Carolina regulators have conditionally approved Charlotte-based Atrium Health’s request to increase its bed count, denying a bid from Winston-Salem-based Novant Health in a March 12 decision that Novant has appealed. Three notes: 1. In the fall, Atrium requested 89…

There’s a longstanding notion in healthcare that patients with low-acuity conditions are a key driver of overcrowding and boarding in emergency departments — one that emergency medicine experts describe as a misconception that distracts from real solutions.  “I’m not really…

Emergency departments see the most firearm-related injuries on the Fourth of July of any holiday, according to a CDC analysis covering nine states and Washington, D.C. Researchers analyzed more than 93,000 ED visits across the 10 jurisdictions between January 2018…

Rural and community hospitals across the country are innovating to overcome challenges like rising operational costs, geographic isolation, patient access, and outmigration. An emerging practical and transformative solution is hospital at home, which we often refer to as health at…

As the older adult population grows, health systems are expanding community care, virtual visits and home-based models to better meet their evolving needs.  By 2050, there will be 82 million adults aged 65 and older in the U.S. — a…

Firearm injuries send patients to the emergency department every 30 minutes, on average, according to a new CDC study examining trends from nine states and Washington, D.C. The study, published April 15 in Annals of Internal Medicine, is the largest…

ECU Health, a nine-hospital system based in Greenville, N.C., is entering a strategic collaboration with Force Therapeutics to optimize and automate care delivery.  The collaboration will supply ECU Health with a patient engagement platform to automate CMS-mandated patient data collection,…

Fifty percent of patients who are boarded in the emergency department in 2022 were 65 or older, Louisville Public Media reported April 22. With the number of people over 65 growing by the day, and the rates of dementia expected…

An Illinois hospital that recently changed hands from one health system to another has seen significant physician workforce changes, spurring concerns about healthcare access, The Beacon-News reported April 20.  On March 1, Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare acquired eight Illinois hospitals…