Care Coordination

UW Health American Family Children's Hospital in Madison, Wis., is expanding its intensive care services to meet growing regional demand for pediatric specialty care. 

Nearly 3 million Americans live in mostly rural counties that lack both healthcare and reliable high-speed internet, leaving them with worse outcomes and fewer options, KFF Health News reported March 10.

With inpatient demand stretching hospital capacity thin, UC San Diego Health is taking a collaborative, data-driven approach to proactively refine how patients move through the health system. 

Mount Sinai South Nassau, a 455-bed hospital in Oceanside, N.Y., opened a newly renovated emergency department March 5 that doubles its previous capacity. 

Dayton (Ohio) Children's has opened an outpatient mental health center to consolidate mental health services. 

The U.S. lost more than 500 pediatric units between 2008 and 2022, resulting in a 29.9% decline in these units and a 19.5% decrease in hospital pediatric beds. Bucking this trend, Hutchinson (Kan.) Regional Medical Center reopened its pediatric unit…

Cleveland-based University Hospitals views the entire community as its patient, Heidi Gartland, chief community and government affairs officer, told Becker's. This is why the system is expanding into housing.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital has launched a pediatric critical care ground transport program to improve care for critically ill and injured infants and children.

West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health has seen success with virtual neurology and behavioral health care.

Research over the last several decades has shown that the value of a traditional annual physician exam is relatively low. But healthcare systems are rethinking that stance — not by abandoning the traditional model, but by redesigning it entirely.