A patient with a fractured skull was reportedly made to wait nearly three hours for transfer to Hudson, Fla.-based Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point Feb. 15 after physicians at Medical Center of Trinity (Fla.) could not provide adequate care, according…
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UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Humana and other health insurance stocks dipped March 12 following a Wall Street Journal report stating the insurers boosted Medicare payments by gaming the Medicare Advantage plan rating system, Insider Louisville reports.
Community Medical Center Long Beach (Calif.), which is slated to close within the next four months, has stopped accepting emergency room patients receiving advanced life support care form paramedics, according to The Grunion.
The National Quality Forum created a new guidebook to help providers prescribe opioids safely amid the nation's ongoing opioid epidemic, according to a March 8 release.
A sewage leak forced St. Charles Medical Center-Bend (Ore.) to cancel elective surgeries and left patients without water to shower or flush toilets for several hours March 6, according to The Bulletin.
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UnitedHealth Group's insurance arm, UnitedHealthcare, changed its emergency department reimbursement policy for commercial and Medicare Advantage plans.
Warsaw, Ind.-based Miller's Health System will shutter the 21-bed short-term rehabilitation unit it operates at Logansport (Ind.) Memorial Hospital April 1, according to the Pharos-Tribune.
Pocatello, Idaho-based Portneuf Medical Center was placed on lockdown for more than two hours March 4 while police negotiated with an armed man who was inside a vehicle in the hospital's parking lot, according to the East Idaho News.
THE CHALLENGE As the only Level III Trauma Center along the eastern shore and with more than 21,000 admissions and 95,000 ED visits annually, Peninsula Regional Medical Center (PRMC) care teams are coordinating around the clock.
Monroe, La.-based University Health Conway partially evacuated March 2 after multiple employees smelled strong fumes, reports KNOE.