Care Coordination

Ocean Medical Center in Brick, N.J., has broken ground on an $85 million expansion project, according to an Asbury Park Press report.

The Department of Health & Human Services has finalized its Community First Choice rule, a new state plan option under Medicaid, and announced the participants in the Independence At Home Demonstration, which encourages primary care practices to provide home-based care…

Hospitals can use data to develop tools that accurately predict emergency department visits, according to a study in Emergency Medicine Journal.

When it comes to the culture of a hospital, nothing is as important as the employees who work for it and aim to provide excellent patient care. When it comes to a hospital's balance sheet, particularly the physical assets, nothing…

The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore announced it will open new adult and pediatric emergency departments April 29.

At 554 hospital emergency department visits per 1,000 people, Ohio had the sixth-highest ED visit rate in the United States in 2010, according to a Middletown Journal report.

Affinity Medical Center in Massillon, Ohio, has broken ground on a $9 million emergency room expansion, according to an Independent report.

The amount of bariatric surgery performed in the U.S. has plateaued in recent years, due to factors such as the recession, according to an American Medical News report.

Patient flow management, adequate staffing levels and cost reductions are issues that hospital emergency departments deal with regularly. Recent studies have shown that emergency department visits are up in many hospitals across the United States. Additionally, the emergency department is…

On April 11, Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., opened the first fully-integrated neurosurgical center of its kind in the United States. The center, called Unity System, combines communication, teamwork and technology to treat brain tumors and other neurological disorders.…