Healthcare organizations face more financial pressures than ever before as margin pressures and costs continue to rise, all while competition intensifies. Facing these challenges head-on requires that organizations turn massive amounts of healthcare data into actionable insights.
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As excessive heat warnings and advisories continue throughout many parts of the southern and central U.S., CDC data is showing a correlated rise in heat-related illnesses.
Staten Island (N.Y.) University Hospital, part of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, will discontinue an overnight ambulance tour that operates south of the Huguenot neighborhood on the South Shore of Staten Island, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker's June…
Reduced waiting times, more emergency department beds and a better patient experience are just a few of the benefits two U.S. hospitals have seen since opening 'discharge lounges.'
Emergency department workers are raising alarms about boarding levels remaining high in hospitals and systems even as COVID-19 cases decline, and on June 21, they categorized the situation as a crisis.
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Adena Regional Medical Center in Chillicothe, Ohio, has implemented several changes since the start of the year that have lowered the average emergency department wait time to between five and six minutes.
The Tennessee attorney general's office, which is looking into transgender healthcare practices and "potential medical billing fraud" at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., secured more than five years of a transgender patients' medical records from the hospital, according…
St. Luke's University Health Network, based in Bethlehem, Pa., has established the St. Luke's Children's Hospital — an effort to consolidate pediatric care at the health system's Fountain Hill, Pa., campus, according to a June 20 Lehigh Valley News report.
A water main break caused Children's Hospital of Atlanta's Scottish Rite Hospital in Sandy Springs, Ga., to reschedule surgeries and divert trauma patients June 18-19, according to a report from Atlanta News First.
Newport (Wash.) Hospital and Health Services reopened its birthing center June 1, Bonner County Daily Bee reported June 14.