Care Coordination

Austin, Texas-based Seton Health Alliance, a Pioneer accountable care organization that is a partnership between Seton Healthcare Family and other providers, has partnered with UnitedHealthcare for the first-ever commercial ACO in central Texas.

During a June 20 webinar hosted by Becker's Hospital Review, Therese Poland, RN, and Susan Lautner, RN, experts from the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program in Chicago, and Jeanne M. Robinson, APN, coordinator of the stroke response and neurology teams at…

Cigna is launching a collaborative accountable care initiative, its version of accountable care organizations, with NYUPN Clinically Integrated Network, an organization comprising all clinical faculty affiliated with NYU Langone Medical Center and the University Physicians Network in New York City.

Genesis Medical Center, Aledo (Ill.) announced that it has begun a $12 million renovation and modernization project.

North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville announced the completion of a $62 million south tower.

Neshoba County General Hospital-Nursing Home in Philadelphia, Miss., will open its $19 million replacement facility June 30, according to a report by The Neshoba Democrat.

Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree, Colo., announced that it has begun a $117 million expansion, according to Lone Tree Voice report.

Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., has plans to open a $4 million urgent care center in October, according to a New York Daily News report.

Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Bolingbrook, Ill., has received approval from the state's Health Facilities and Services Review Board to begin a $247 million expansion project, according to a Northwest Herald report.

Processing blood tests using point-of-care devices can slightly reduce the length of time to disposition decisions for emergency department patients for a moderate increase in cost, according to a study in the Emergency Medicine Journal.