UC San Diego Health and West Health have launched the West Health Accelerator at UC San Diego Health, a six-year, $40 million initiative to help build a new model of reliable and coordinated care that can be shared with systems…
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University of Kentucky HealthCare based in Lexington opened an Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment and Healing (EmPATH) unit in July 2024 to treat behavioral health patients outside its emergency departments — a design choice that differs from many models nationally. The…
Maternity care access remains a challenge across the U.S. as labor and delivery closures, workforce shortages and financial pressures strain services. In 2026, 34.6% of U.S. counties are maternity care deserts, according to an Aug. 11 March of Dimes report.…
Damariscotta-based MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital will shift labor and delivery services to MaineHealth Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, effective Dec. 18, as part of a broader operational change that combines the two hospitals’ OB/GYN and midwifery teams. Comprehensive prenatal and postpartum…
Los Angeles-based Adventist Health White Memorial, part of Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health, and Orange, Calif.-based Rady Children’s Health Orange County have partnered on neonatal care. The partnership began July 1, according to an Aug. 4 news release from Adventist Health.…
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Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is improving access to care outside of traditional clinical settings with its Community Health Improvement Corps. The Corps is a workforce of community health workers with clinical training who are supported by a registered nurse…
When the Long Beach, Calif., City Council voted this spring to push e-bikes off city sidewalks, the decisive evidence came not from police crash reports but from a hospital trauma registry. The trauma department at Long Beach Memorial had logged…
Hartford-based Connecticut Children’s is seeking approval to relocate inpatient pediatric services from Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, Conn., to its Hartford campus, citing nearly a decade of low patient volume at the Waterbury unit, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s Aug.…
Wildfires that broke out in the Spokane, Wash., area the afternoon of Aug. 1 prompted mass evacuations affecting an estimated 60,000 residents, and forced hospital and clinic closures across the region, according to reporting from The New York Times and…
Behavioral health patients often wait longer than other emergency department patients for a bed. Along the way, patients may end up receiving care in the most expensive setting available, or experiencing distress in an often-hectic environment. Now, health systems are…