Parrish Medical Center in Titusville, Fla., is the first medical facility in the U.S. to be added to Cleveland Clinic's collaborative network of integrated care, the two announced March 7.
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UPMC's Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Highly Specialized Therapies in Palermo, Italy, has completed its 3,000th organ transplant.
The Hawaii Health Department implemented security and patient changes to the State Operated Specialized Residential Program and Hawaii State Hospital facilities following the death of a nurse.
Manchester, N.H.-based Elliot Hospital launched a virtual emergency department program, ABC affiliate WMUR reported Feb. 29.
Valleywise Health has reopened some of its inpatient psychiatric beds that had been closed since 2022 due to staffing shortages. However, dozens of the Phoenix-based system's licensed psychiatric beds remain closed as it works to recruit more behavioral health staff.
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Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would require hospitals to collect and report data on emergency department wait times and volumes. Hospitals, meanwhile, contend such rules will not help solve emergency department boarding and capacity issues.
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health has cut its emergency department utilization by 32% after implementing a new program that incorporates behavioral care and addiction treatment, a spokesperson for the system shared with Becker's Feb. 28.
In a bid to reduce wait times, Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health is now offering an online scheduling option for patients seeking care at two of its emergency departments.
HCA Florida North Florida Hospital in Gainesville, which shut down procedures earlier this year to address equipment sterilization issues, has resumed all surgical operations.
More hospitals are severing ties to anesthesiology groups, some to build their own internal anesthesia departments, others inking new contracts with different provider groups and some joining the growing volume of echoes claiming certain anesthesiology groups have "anticompetitive business practices."