Care Coordination

The National Institutes of Health awarded  New York City-based New York University more than $65 million over the next five years to study how environmental factors influence children's health, according to a press release.

The World Health Organization released a new suicide prevention toolkit Sept. 10 in accordance with World Suicide Prevention Day.

Imagine yourself as an American citizen performing job responsibilities overseas, and suddenly you have an urgent or emergent medical need. What do you do? Who do you turn to? Going Global: How MedStar Georgetown University Hospital helps coordinate international patient care.

Lumberton, N.C.-based Southeastern Regional Medical Center, a 452-bed hospital in a rural county, is looking to its Walmart urgent care clinic to avoid straining emergency departments with nonemergency care, North Carolina Health News reports.

In a recent blog post, Medecision released Part 1 of its three-part blog series. 

Leaders of Columbus, N.C.-based St. Luke's Hospital are preparing to serve a significantly larger number of patients with as many as 400,000 people anticipated to visit the town for the World Equestrian Games, WSPA reports.

Pending approval from state regulators, Evergreen Park, Ill.-based Little Company of Mary Hospital plans to close its 20-bed inpatient pediatric unit by Nov. 1,  according to The Chicago Tribune.

ACOs continued to grow in size and count in 2017 and early 2018, according to an analysis from Leavitt Partners and the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative. 

Highmark and Allegheny Health Network, both in Pittsburgh, launched a pilot program under which Highmark will reimburse ambulance companies for some calls where patients are not taken to a hospital, according to Trib Live.

Community Medical Center Long Beach (Calif.) closed in July, but the hospital's new operator hopes to reopen it Jan. 1, according to the Press-Telegram.