Care Coordination

Chicago-based CommonSpirit and Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health have formed a clinical partnership that will give patients at five CommonSpirit hospitals access to physicians and providers at the academic health system. 

Several hospitals, care clinics and pharmacies faced power issues and curtailed services after a bomb cyclone swept through the Pacific Northwest. 

Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter's Hospital is diverting patients to other hospitals after a ruptured pipe caused flooding in its radiology department, the Times Union reported Nov. 19.

Health systems are turning to advanced practice provider care to increase capacity and patient access.

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health is doubling the number of advanced practice providers in its primary care facilities, anticipating a 70% increase in care capacity for each APP added to physician-led teams.

Aultman Cancer Center in Canton, Ohio, and University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland have entered a new clinical collaboration.

Nearly 30 million Americans lack timely access to trauma centers, and teletrauma presents a promising approach to fill that gap — though it remains underutilized, according to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

In launching its own care coordination center, Memorial Healthcare System set out to go beyond capacity management and centralized bed placement. Specifically, it combines human capital, data and IT, Chief Medical Officer Aharon Sareli, MD, told Becker's.

A recent study found that hospital geographic market boundaries often differ from actual patient travel patterns, indicating that hospital service areas may not accurately define patient populations, Medscape reported.

Warsaw, N.Y.-based Wyoming County Community Health System will close its dialysis clinic in Morris, N.Y., due to ongoing financial losses and staffing challenges.