As AI technology continues to advance and once revolutionary digital health tools become the new normal, healthcare leaders are learning more about what works and what does not. From patient privacy and physician education, six industry leaders shared with Becker’s…
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Care access — including the staffing that drives it — is one of the biggest operational challenges hospitals face today, Caleb Miller, senior vice president of surgical services and ambulatory care at Urbana, Ill.-based Carle Health, told Becker’s. The eight-hospital…
A few decades ago, readmissions were seen as a mark of volume. Today, they are a marker of vulnerability. Especially in rural America, they expose the thin edge where clinical complexity meets social fragility. Ballad Health recently convened a systemwide…
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora is rescheduling elective procedures that were recently postponed due to staffing issues in the sterile processing department. On July 22, a UCHealth spokesperson said some elective surgeries were postponed due to insufficient staffing…
Rush University Medical Center, based in Chicago, temporarily diverted ambulances and canceled surgeries July 28 after a malfunction knocked out the air conditioning in the hospital’s main tower during a heat wave. A chilled water line disabled the building’s HVAC…
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As the new chief medical officer of St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Billings, Mont., Christopher Strear, MD, looks to employ a tried-and-true management framework to tackle capacity strain. The theory of constraints, a decades-old management methodology focused on identifying and…
A July 24 executive order to reduce homelessness in the U.S. instructs federal agencies to end “housing first” policies in favor of involuntary commitments, or force admissions, at hospitals. President Donald Trump’s order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,”…
Hospital leaders are familiar with emergency department boarding, but a different capacity challenge is growing in EDs as more people arrive needing not medical care, but a safe place to stay. Although not a new issue, these so-called social holds…
Older adults with serious illness before undergoing elective surgery use nearly twice as many healthcare resources as their healthier counterparts, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The study found these patients…
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora is postponing some elective surgery cases amid staffing issues within its sterile processing department. The department is currently operating at reduced capacity, a UCHealth spokesperson said in a statement shared with Becker’s. “Until…