A Massachusetts public health department report found hospital discharge bottlenecks linked to a shortage of guardians for incapacitated patients, WBUR reported Aug. 18. Here is what to know. 1. Unrepresented individuals are typically people experiencing homelessness, have serious mental illnesses,…
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After years of high length-of-stay averages, hospitals are reporting significant length-of-stay reductions. Length of stay is a key performance indicator used by hospitals to measure how long a single patient’s admission lasts. Calculated from the day of admission to the…
Admitted patients boarding in the emergency department often wait hours, and sometimes more than a day, for an inpatient team to take over their care, well after the decision to admit them, according to a study published Aug. 17 in…
Houston-based St. Luke’s Health, a CommonSpirit Health member, will begin using the CommonSpirit name in October, and is expanding its collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine to improve patient access. “St. Luke’s Health has been home to some of the…
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago increased documented interprofessional consultations from an average of 0.9 per week to more than 40 per week after launching a hospitalwide program to capture and bill for informal “curbside” consults, according…
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Patient wait times to receive first-course therapy after a cancer diagnosis grew by almost two weeks between 2012 and 2023, according to a study published Aug. 12 in JAMA Surgery. For the study, researchers from the University of California Los…
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health will build a primary care clinic inside Fargo (N.D.) South High School, expected to open in 2028. The clinic will cost an estimated $1.4 million, according to a statement shared with Becker’s from Susan Jarvis,…
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a proven way to improve patient outcomes while building steady reimbursement revenue. However, introducing an outsourced or vendor-managed program can create operational complexities. High technical fees and challenges with patient engagement often place an unexpected…
UC San Diego Health and West Health have launched the West Health Accelerator at UC San Diego Health, a six-year, $40 million initiative to help build a new model of reliable and coordinated care that can be shared with systems…
University of Kentucky HealthCare based in Lexington opened an Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment and Healing (EmPATH) unit in July 2024 to treat behavioral health patients outside its emergency departments — a design choice that differs from many models nationally. The…