Hospitals and health systems have continued to close maternity units, citing ongoing financial challenges, workforce shortages and declining birth rates. However, in rural Kansas, AdventHealth Ottawa — part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth — recently restored labor and delivery services…
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HCA Florida Healthcare has launched a new air ambulance service aimed at cutting emergency transport times nearly in half for rural communities in western North Central Florida. The service, HCA Florida AirLife, began transporting patients last week through a partnership…
Fairfax, Va.-based Inova Health is redefining primary care with services designed to meet patients where they work and live. “Meeting our patients where they are isn’t a tagline — it’s how we design care,” Craig Cheifetz, MD, president of Inova…
In the last year, health systems across the country have been implementing innovative primary care models to meet rising demand for appointments and address physician burnout. Nationally, primary care physician supply is expected to meet 73% of demand by 2037;…
The nursing staff at a Providence hospital in Oregon helped design a new unit space that the organization said will improve care coordination and increase capacity. Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center in Oregon City, Ore., involved its nursing staff in…
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Every year, it seems hospital and healthcare leaders try new strategies to expand patient care and access across their markets. This year, a popular choice is to expand after-hour care. “This isn’t just a tweak around the edges,” MetroHealth President…
Minot, N.D.-based Trinity Health will not return clinical or administrative services to its St. Joseph’s Hospital following a Jan. 3 mechanical incident at the facility, President and CEO John Kutch said in a message shared with Becker’s. The health system…
The impact of pulmonary diseases on other chronic conditions is often misunderstood and commonly underreported. More than half the Americans with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have not been diagnosed, and these conditions often intersect with other polychronic ailments. This…
Several major health systems across Wisconsin and Michigan have closed outpatient clinics and are rescheduling elective procedures as a winter storm system moves through the region. A snowstorm that began March 15 brought blizzard-like conditions to much of the Upper…
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health’s Katz Institute for Women’s Health has opened a menopause and midlife health center. The Northwell Health Physician Partners Center for Menopause and Midlife Health, based in Stony Brook, N.Y., is a 3,000-square-foot multidisciplinary facility…