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…
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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…
One health system cut approximately 1,200 bed days and saved $1.92 million in 2024. Another system reduced length of stay by 30 to 60 days per patient for around 800 patients a year. A third system has saved 14,731 bed…
Indiana (Pa.) Regional Medical Center is opening its new behavioral health facility, the Indiana Gazette reported April 10. IRMC Mountains Behavioral Health is a 31,000-square-foot center with 44 inpatient beds for adolescent, adult and senior patients, and will provide treatment…
Trinity Health of New England, part of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, has transitioned 147 emergency and hospital medicine providers to Vituity as part of a major emergency department and inpatient care overhaul across its Connecticut hospitals. Effective April 7, Vituity…
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Before UofL Health-South Hospital opened in March 2024, Bullitt County was the largest county in Kentucky without an inpatient hospital. One year later, the 40-bed hospital in Shepherdsville has admitted more than 3,400 patients and logged more than 30,000 emergency…
More than 200 counties in the U.S. with the worst access to reliable internet also have the least access to healthcare, KFF Health News reported April 9. Here are five things to know: 1. Nearly 60% of these counties in…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Ascension Saint Thomas is entering a joint venture with PathPoint Health to expand metabolic care services in central Tennessee. The joint venture will begin with two locations — one in Nashville near Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown and…
A patient sustained minor injuries after a fire broke out April 7 in a patient room at UPMC Hanover (Pa.), a UPMC spokesperson confirmed in a statement shared with Becker’s. Firefighters responded to a fire alarm at the hospital around…
The viability of hospital-based emergency care is at risk after facing epidemics, a pandemic, increased patient acuity and complexity, and unsustainable declines in payment, an April 7 RAND report found. The report authors assessed the current value of emergency care,…