Tacoma, Wash.-based CHI Franciscan Health and Humana collaborated on a value-based care payment model for the payer's Medicare Advantage members in Washington state.
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Acadia General Hospital in Crowley, La., is launching a construction project to more than double the size of its emergency room, according to a Daily Advertiser report.
Avera Marshall (Minn.) Regional Medical Center is doubling the size of its emergency department in response to increased patient volume, according to a Marshall Independent report.
Undergraduates at Stanford University are working to combat health inequity in emergency rooms, according to Stanford Medicine's blog Scope.
While Puerto Rican officials claim Hurricane Maria, which destroyed power grids and left millions without clean drinking water, left only 55 people dead in its aftermath, researchers suggest the death toll may be off by more than 1,000, Vox Media…
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Hospitals nationwide continue to look for ways to reduce costs while providing quality care to patients. One tool that has worked for Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network is its street medicine program, which provides homeless individuals with basic primary…
Roughly two weeks after the unexpected decision to end inpatient care at Nashville (Tenn.) General Hospital, Nashville Mayor Megan Barry announced the creation of a multidisciplinary team to help craft a formal proposal regarding the future of the hospital, according…
Population health management is a crucial competency for healthcare providers to improve care quality and lower costs. However, many hospitals nationwide still struggle to implement successful population health initiatives and deliver high-value care, according to Carl Couch, MD, CMO of…
Approximately 6,600 patients (6 percent) in Alaska accounted for $148 million in the state's emergency department spending in 2016, according to a report from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Division of Public Health.
As rates of diabetes and urbanization rise together, advances in medicine will not be enough to slow the spread of the disease, but instead, cities will have to make concerted population health efforts, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen writes in an op-ed…