Ann Arbor, Mich.-based St. Joseph Mercy Health System announced that it plans to invest $25 million in adding rooms to St. Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital in Howell, Mich., and establishing a short-stay inpatient unit at St. Joseph Mercy Brighton,…
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Under a proposed rule change issued by CMS, as a part of the anticipated 2015 Physician Fee Schedule, the number of quality measures used to assess accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program would increase from 33 to…
After lowering its traditional emergency department capacity and shifting those beds to observation unit service, Newark, N.J.-based University Hospital has improved its patient capacity, according to a report from The Star-Ledger.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield's patient-centered medical home program has reported lower than expected costs for the third consecutive year and has made quality gains for the 1.1 million members covered by the program.
Hockey great Wayne Gretzky played 20 years in the National Hockey League, earning his place as one of the most talented and celebrated athletes in the sport in the late 1970s through 1990s. I lived just outside St. Louis in…
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The following are 70 accountable care and similar collaborative agreements that have been announced so far this year. The list is organized by month beginning with the most recent.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT The benefits of hospital-wide integration– Fostering a culture of integration & collaboration across departments– Medical leadership and alignment with hospital goals– Improved throughput reduces cost, improves patient satisfaction– Critical…
Cigna has achieved its goal of creating 100 collaborative care arrangements reaching 1 million customers with the recent addition of 11 arrangements in seven states.
Compassion is upheld as a central virtue in healthcare. But what the $2.8 trillion industry that fatally harms upwards of 440,000 patients per year might need is a good dose of mercilessness — toward itself. Subpar hospitals will need to…
In times of health crisis or pandemic, allowing patients to choose the hospital at which they will receive treatment and providing incentives to influence those choices can be an effective way to manage capacity, according to a study published in…