Participation in CMS' Bundled Payment for Care Improvement initiative decreased when those involved were required to accept downside risk in October, but remains fairly strong overall, even for clinical episodes that involve infections, according to a new Avalere report.
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Among patient populations, seniors with dementia present a serious challenge for hospital emergency departments, according to new research from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University Center for Aging Research in Indianapolis.
A 58-year-old female patient at New York City-based Metropolitan Hospital Center went missing for three days following her discharge, according to The New York Times.
An armed man who scaled a construction site near St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco and was aiming one of his guns at the healthcare facility was fatally shot by police officers late Wednesday afternoon, according to the San Francisco…
The emergency room at Reading (Pa.) Hospital, a Level II trauma center, was built to house 280 patients at a time. When the new facility opened in 2005, that number of beds would suffice. However, the hospital had been seeing…
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The following is a list of hospitals with an average emergency department length of stay of less than 140 minutes as listed on Hospital Compare. Times represent the average number of minutes patients spent in the ED before they were…
A patient who stabbed two nurses at Physicians Regional Medical Center in Knoxville, Tenn., has been charged with two counts of attempted murder in the first degree, according to a Knox News report.
Angry at Houston-based Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital for refusing him emergency room services, David Williams, 33, walked into a next door building shortly after 1 a.m. on August 3 and started two fires. The blaze triggered Memorial Hermann's sprinkler system,…
A patient attacked a female physician and attempted to slash her neck in York (Maine) Hospital's emergency room Sept. 6, according to York Dispatch News.