Salem (Ore.) Health's CNO said the hospital saw a 20 percent surge in emergency department and hospital visits last week attributed in part to an increase in influenza cases, reports Statesman Journal.
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Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health Medical Center received six trauma patients injured in a shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Jan. 6.
Reports of smoke inside John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas, prompted a hospitalwide evacuation Wednesday.
Psychiatric patients in Massachusetts have lengthy emergency department visits, particularly those requiring inpatient admission, according to a study published online Wednesday in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
The following 47 hospitals are where patients spend the shortest average time in the emergency department before being leaving from the visit.
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Louisville, Ky.-based Humana introduced a program to reduce and standardize the set of clinical quality metrics it uses for physicians, scaling back the number of quality metrics from 1,116 to 208.
After an outdoor electric transformer short-circuited, hospital officials at Palomar Health Downtown Campus in Escondido, Calif., were forced to divert all new maternity deliveries to the system's Pomerado Hospital in Poway, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna is continuing its initiative to curb opioid use by encouraging medical practices to sign a pledge to limit opioid prescriptions and treat opioid overuse as a chronic condition.
Detroit-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan gained CMS approval for its Patient-Centered Medical Home model to receive merit-based payments under the Medicare Quality Payment Program, reports TV 6.