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…
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Tacoma, Wash.-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health opened its hybrid emergency department and urgent care in Bremerton, the Kitsap Sun reported April 21. The clinic has a fully functional ED with CT scan, X-ray machine, labs and 24/7 service. It does…
Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health Children’s is nearly doubling its neonatal intensive care unit. The 60-bed NICU is regularly at capacity, so to provide better care to local residents, the hospital is adding 40 more beds to the unit, according to…
Inadequate coordination of patient discharges was named among the top 10 threats to patient safety in 2025, according to a recent report from ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices. Gaps in communication, follow-up and medication management continue to…
Froedtert ThedaCare Health, a system dually headquartered in Milwaukee and Neenah, Wis., is apologizing for turning away a Milwaukee police officer for seeking care while on duty and carrying a department-issued firearm. In an April 16 letter shared with Becker’s,…
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Twenty-six rural hospitals across Ohio and West Virginia have partnered to form the Ohio High Value Network — a clinically integrated network aimed at strengthening care delivery, improving outcomes and reducing costs for patients. The collaborative includes 25 Ohio hospitals…
NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln is piloting a “hotspotting” program to connect patients with opioid use disorder to ongoing addiction care after emergency department visits. Through the care model, patients treated for opioid use or nonfatal overdoses at Lincoln Hospital’s ED…
More than half of rural hospitals had positive margins in 2023, but financial challenges still cause many to close service lines or their operations entirely, KFF Health News found. KFF Health News collected data from Medicare cost reports, the American…
M Health Fairview has opened a dedicated donor care unit to optimize outcomes for transplant patients and ease capacity strain across the region. The unit operates in partnership with LifeSource, an organization that coordinates the transfer of organ donors, evaluates…
Visante’s client, a world-renowned medical facility, knew they needed to implement a home infusion program. Not only did they need to launch this program from the ground up, they needed to implement it quickly. The medical center’s collaboration with Visante…