A study led by Salt Lake City-based University of Utah analyzed nearly 150,000 hospitalized patients with critical injuries and found that a majority of these patients are not transferred to an appropriate site of care. Transfers to higher-level care centers,…
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Aurora Medical Center-Sheboygan County in Wisconsin plans to stop offering inpatient psychiatric care and convert those beds to medical and surgical beds beginning Sept. 19, according to Wisconsin Public Radio. In a statement shared with the news outlet, Aurora Health…
If you were handed $100 million earmarked for clinical work, where would you invest it first? This is the question Becker’s posed to two hospital leaders. Their responses come down to what kind of investment matters most to their community…
New Orleans-based Ochsner Health was able to cut emergency department visits with its virtual ED, according to an article published Aug. 22 on the American Medical Association website. The virtual emergency department service was launched in October. It runs from…
A growing share of emergency department visits in the U.S. are considered emergent, meaning they require immediate treatment, according to Vizient and Kaufman Hall’s latest “System of CARE” report, which tracks national trends in patient throughput, access, quality and cost…
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More hospitals and health systems should be focusing on developing evidence-based clinical pathways as part of broader efforts to free up capacity and improve operational efficiency, according to Chhavi Katyal, MD, senior vice president and chief quality officer at Catholic…
Twenty hospitals were named to healthcare staffing firm Soliant’s 2025 Most Beautiful Hospitals list, which recognizes both architectural beauty and quality of care. Leaders from eight of the hospitals shared with Becker’s how redesigned spaces have improved patient flow in…
Philadelphia-based Temple Health is opening a new women’s and family hospital to expand labor and delivery care, WHYY reported Aug. 18. Temple Health performs an average of 2,000 deliveries each year, the majority of which occur at the system’s main…
More than 10% of pediatric visits to the emergency department for mental health conditions result in ED boarding, according to research published Aug. 15 in JAMA. Boarding, or the practice of holding patients in the ED while waiting for an…
A power outage at Intermountain Medical Center on Aug. 14 led to the transfer of several NICU patients and laboring mothers out of the Murray, Utah-based facility to other area hospitals, according to a report from The Salt Lake Tribune. …