Froedtert ThedaCare Health, a system dually headquartered in Milwaukee and Neenah, Wis., is apologizing for turning away a Milwaukee police officer for seeking care while on duty and carrying a department-issued firearm. In an April 16 letter shared with Becker’s,…
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Twenty-six rural hospitals across Ohio and West Virginia have partnered to form the Ohio High Value Network — a clinically integrated network aimed at strengthening care delivery, improving outcomes and reducing costs for patients. The collaborative includes 25 Ohio hospitals…
NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln is piloting a “hotspotting” program to connect patients with opioid use disorder to ongoing addiction care after emergency department visits. Through the care model, patients treated for opioid use or nonfatal overdoses at Lincoln Hospital’s ED…
More than half of rural hospitals had positive margins in 2023, but financial challenges still cause many to close service lines or their operations entirely, KFF Health News found. KFF Health News collected data from Medicare cost reports, the American…
M Health Fairview has opened a dedicated donor care unit to optimize outcomes for transplant patients and ease capacity strain across the region. The unit operates in partnership with LifeSource, an organization that coordinates the transfer of organ donors, evaluates…
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One health system cut approximately 1,200 bed days and saved $1.92 million in 2024. Another system reduced length of stay by 30 to 60 days per patient for around 800 patients a year. A third system has saved 14,731 bed…
Indiana (Pa.) Regional Medical Center is opening its new behavioral health facility, the Indiana Gazette reported April 10. IRMC Mountains Behavioral Health is a 31,000-square-foot center with 44 inpatient beds for adolescent, adult and senior patients, and will provide treatment…
Trinity Health of New England, part of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, has transitioned 147 emergency and hospital medicine providers to Vituity as part of a major emergency department and inpatient care overhaul across its Connecticut hospitals. Effective April 7, Vituity…
Before UofL Health-South Hospital opened in March 2024, Bullitt County was the largest county in Kentucky without an inpatient hospital. One year later, the 40-bed hospital in Shepherdsville has admitted more than 3,400 patients and logged more than 30,000 emergency…
More than 200 counties in the U.S. with the worst access to reliable internet also have the least access to healthcare, KFF Health News reported April 9. Here are five things to know: 1. Nearly 60% of these counties in…