More Massachusetts hospital workers received flu vaccinations during the most recent flu season compared to last season, but state officials said more work can be done, according to a Boston Globe report.
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The Joint Commission has made several changes to a hospital accreditation standard to address patient flow in emergency departments.
Two abstracts presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine suggest overweight patients in hospital emergency departments are subject to etomidate and vancomycin underdosing, according to a Pharmacy Practice News report.
Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellent, an arm of the American Hospital Association, has released a report on population health, according to an AHA News Now report.
Direct medical costs of stroke were approximately $18.8 billion, with almost half of this amount being for hospitalizations in 2008, according to the latest statistics from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
Two individuals from Alabama who jointly operated a Medicaid fraud ring have each been sentenced to more than 25 years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $2.8 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Services.
Florida Hospital in Orlando is planning to open its first workforce housing unit in late 2013, which will consist of a 230-unit apartment complex located two blocks away from the downtown hospital, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.
Physicians are every bit as mobile physically as smartphone-driven communications have become virtually. When your "office" on a given day might be a dozen patient rooms at a hospital or two clinics 20 miles apart, the temptation to ask nurses…
Consultants advising the University of Louisville's University Hospital told the facility it must partner with another organization that will provide access to capital for growth, according to an Indianapolis Star report.
Austin, Texas-based Seton Family of Hospitals partnered with long-term care provided Kindred Healthcare to open a new, 59,000 square-foot facility for the Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital in Austin.