Post-Acute

New York has the lowest Parkinson’s disease death rate, at 6.1 deaths per 100,000 people, while Utah has the highest, at 13.2, the CDC found. The CDC calculated mortality rates from Alzheimer’s disease in every state. Mortality rate is the…

UPMC has launched a new home care program, UPMC Your Care, designed to fill the gaps between traditional care settings and home. “Sometimes our biggest opportunity isn’t inside the hospital or the physician’s office; it’s closing the space between transitions…

The poverty rate among older adults 65 and older is the highest among all age groups and has risen for five straight years, a Sept. 15 AARP Foundation analysis found. The analysis is based on 2025 data released by the…

Anchorage-based Providence St. Elias Specialty Hospital earned stroke and brain injury specialty program accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities International. Alaska has one of the highest rates of trauma and brain injury in the nation, and the…

Post-acute care leaders are navigating a tightening financial and workforce landscape even as new care models expand what’s possible outside the hospital. Home is becoming the new destination of care and post-acute is being repositioned as a strategic driver for…

Providence, R.I.-based Care New England has prevented emergency department visits and inpatient stays with its Integra Community Care Network. The network, which launched in 2014, is the system’s accountable care organization that partners with the hospitals, nursing home and visiting…

Mesquite, Texas-based Ernest Health announced Phase 1 of its plan to build six freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in North Carolina. The hospitals will be developed in partnership with Summit Healthcare Group, a North Carolinal real estate development firm, according to…

Health systems are under growing pressure to move care out of acute settings driven by capacity constraints, workforce shortages and payer restrictions. Advances in artificial intelligence and remote patient monitoring help facilitate that move — often closer to or into…

Health systems and hospitals with successful skilled nursing facility bed leasing programs have many of the same best practices: value alignment, transparency around patient selection, recurring check-ins and more. Most hospitals and health systems left the SNF business long ago,…

White Plains, N.Y.-based Burke Rehabilitation received a “historic” $20 million challenge pledge, one of the largest philanthropic donations given to a free-standing rehab hospital in recent years. The gift, given by Bill Ackman and Neri Oxman, will launch the hospital’s…