Integrating an elderly patient's informal caregivers — family members, friends, partners, neighbors and other loved ones — into the discharge process may potentially reduce the patient's likelihood of readmission.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Over the last several years, hospitals have been hard at work to develop strategies to avoid penalties and denial of payments associated with high readmission rates.
Troy, N.Y.-based St. Mary's Hospital closed its emergency department and redirected patients to nearby hospitals due to a power outage Wednesday that lasted nearly five hours, the timesunion reports.
New research out of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health shows Medicare patients in ACOs incurred $345 less in medical costs in 2012, without increasing prescription drug costs.
Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles has been awarded $2 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study how physicians can effectively discuss opioid use with chronic pain patients.
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A patient at Health First Viera (Fla.) Hospital suffered a fatal, self-inflicted gunshot wound early Sunday morning, according to an email from Health First Vice President and COO Stuart Mitchell III to hospital employees obtained by Becker's Hospital Review.
A recent audit by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General identified long wait times is an ongoing issue for veterans looking to access VA healthcare.
UMass Memorial Medical Center's proposal to cut 13 psychiatric beds next year was met with scrutiny from mental health advocates and nurses working at the hospital, reports MassLive.
Ingesting just one oxycodone tablet and moderately consuming alcohol can increase the risk of respiratory depression, a potentially fatal side effect caused by drug overdose, according to a new study published in the journal Anesthesiology.
A 64-year-old man died Monday after jumping from a balcony inside a medical building on the Barnes-Jewish Hospital campus in St. Louis.