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.
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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.
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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.
Pip Care has been awarded a prestigious Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide more patients with comprehensive perioperative care support before, during, and after surgery.
Cleveland-based University Hospitals is leaning into "retail healthcare" by expanding its urgent care centers to 36 retail centers across northern Ohio by 2026, cleveland.com reported Nov. 3.
Emory University in Atlanta recently launched a Healthcare Test Kitchen Lab to examine how pathogens spread in clinical settings and to inform infection prevention protocols.
Evanston (Wyo.) Regional Hospital will discontinue its labor and delivery services Dec. 30.