Patient Safety & Outcomes

CMS launched the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model in April 2016 to compel hospitals to better coordinate care for joint replacement surgery patients in an effort to reduce readmissions and use of expensive post-acute services. The CJR model imposes…

Indianapolis-based Anthem said it wants to reduce the amount of opioids prescribed to policyholders by 30 percent by the end of 2019.

Hospitals are seeing a sharp increase in opioid-related inpatient stays and emergency department visits, according to a recent report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

State police said a man reportedly shot himself inside Logan (W.Va.) Regional Medical Center Wednesday morning, according to MetroNews.

Even though Cook County, Ill., has 19 trauma centers, roughly one-third of gunshot wounds in the county from 2009 to 2013 were treated outside of designated trauma centers, according to a study published by JAMA Surgery.

Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara Bush have both been admitted to Houston Methodist, according to a family spokesman.

Eighteen years ago, a woman posing as a nurse kidnapped a newborn girl from a Florida hospital.

A 72-year-old patient shot himself inside Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, N.J., Wednesday morning.

On Jan. 6, a stream of ambulances delivered 54 patients to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a gunman opened fire at a luggage carousel at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Though both ACO and non-ACO hospitals have been successful in driving down rates of readmissions from skilled nursing facilities, hospitals participating in Medicare ACOs have done so measurably faster, according to a study published in the January issue of Health…