Care Coordination

Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colo., recently invested $4 million into emergency department renovations, and it is already seeing decreased wait times and better overall patient flow, according to a Colorado Springs Gazette report.

CMS has announced that 15 of the 89 new accountable care organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program will also take part in the Advance Payments ACO Model.

A recent study in Annals of Emergency Medicine found that reducing nonurgent visits to emergency departments may not produce cost savings for hospitals, and instead, hospitals should focus on reducing admissions and improving ED efficiency to cut costs while keeping…

Patient navigator programs could help hospitals improve their resource utilization with emergency departments, according to a post at CEP America's Acute Care Continuum blog.

A joint venture between HCA's Brentwood, Tenn.-based TriStar Health System and urgent care center chain CareSpot may bring as many as 15 urgent care centers to Tennessee in 2013, according to a news release.

Objective Health has launched a new performance management tool that can help hospital leaders track key performance metrics for population health.

Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana, Texas, recently partnered with CEP America on its emergency department management solutions.

Longview (Texas) Regional Medical Center will begin an expansion project to double the size of the facility.

Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Angola, Ind., has secured a $42 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to build a replacement hospital, according to a WANE report.

Carteret General Hospital in Morehead City, N.C. has applied for a certificate of need to build a new cancer center at an estimated cost of $20 million, according to a Daily News report.