Care Coordination

Summerville (S.C.) Medical Center will move forward with an expansion of its pediatrics services, according to a Summerville Journal Scene report.

For community hospitals, the option of partnering with larger medical centers that have access to innovative technologies and national expertise is attractive as it allows for greater access to specialized care for patients. Partnerships also allow patients to stay closer…

Children's Hospital Los Angeles announced a partnership with Providence Tarzana (Calif.) Medical Center to provide enhanced pediatric care in the San Fernando Valley and the surrounding communities.

CMS announced $32 million in grants is now available to public entities and private community organizations with approved proposals to identify and enroll children eligible for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.

Adults' use of retail health clinics has steadily climbed in the past four years, according to a new HealthDay poll, as 27 percent of adults indicated they visited a retail clinic in the past two years — up from 7…

VHA and two other organizations are starting in a patient-centered medical neighborhood demonstration project, a newer concept designed to improve primary health from a community-level perspective.

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health will soon introduce a therapeutic hypothermia treatment protocol for cardiac arrest patients at four of its member hospitals in rural western North Carolina. The survival rate for out-of-hospital heart attacks in rural North Carolina is about…

Length of stay at nine Boston-area hospitals' emergency departments did not increase after ambulance diversion was banned in 2009, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

The National Institutes of Health announced research indicating that coordinated care can prevent unnecessary emergency department visits by adults with disabilities.

Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates has received approval from the Mississippi State Department of Health to build a new $133 million medical center in Biloxi, Miss., according to a Clarion Ledger report.