Care Coordination

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System and Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., are in talks to create a partnership for specialty pediatric programs and research, according to a Washington Business Journal report.

Since patient flow problems in a hospital are never limited to one area or department, managing that patient flow has become an immense challenge among hospitals today. Any patient flow inefficiencies that are present within an operating room will cascade…

The American Hospital Association supports CMS’ preliminary decision to allow general supervision for 27 hospital outpatient therapeutic services, according to an AHA News Now report.

The Missouri Hospital Association has released a list of lessons learned from the disasters that occurred in 2011, with special emphasis on the Joplin, Mo., tornado of May 22, 2011.

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Forsyth Medical Center will rename its women's center to honor author and civil rights activist and Winston-Salem-based Wake Forest University professor Maya Angelou, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.

Ann Deters, CEO of Vantage Outsourcing in Effingham, Ill., has announced continued growth for the company as it expands into California.

Psychiatric patients' emergency department length of stay was 11.5 hours on average, according to a study (pdf) in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Kansas City, Mo.-based Saint Luke's Health System announced the opening of a new thoracic center at Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City.

St. Paul, Minn.-based HealthEast System plans to open a spine clinic in a space formerly occupied by a Gander Mountain Store in Maplewood, Minn., according to a Twin Cities Pioneer Press report.

Salem (Ohio) Community Hospital announced plans to begin construction of a $42.5 million patient bed tower this summer.