Forty-three rural hospitals, with more than 1,500 beds among them, have closed since 2010, with the pace of closures accelerating each year, according to North Carolina Rural Health Research Program data in USA Today.
Public Health
The American Medical Association reported their House of Delegates passed a number of resolutions with a public health focus at their annual interim meeting this week. Get the scoop on the key issues they approved:
Fifty-one percent of Americans who used healthcare exchanges set up by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last year through Healthcare.gov don't plan on participating in them this year when open enrollment restarts on Nov. 15, according to a…
Rural hospitals in Virginia are in serious trouble, according to a report from the Virginia Hospital Association, with 20 of 37 of the state's rural hospitals operating with negative margins.
The annual Health Fair: The Way to Wellness event last week in Hollywood, Md., saw a turn out of nearly 800 people earlier this month, according to a Southern Maryland News Net report.
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Nilesh Rajadhyax, the vice president of healthcare analytics for TransUnion, authored an article several months ago about the need for providers to clarify pricing as patients adopt the consumer role.
Baystate Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Tufts Medical Center, all in Boston, have partnered with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to accept Ebola patients who originate…
At the beginning of Q3 2014, a remarkable change began in healthcare, a change many of us had been predicting, but its suddenness was still surprising. After a long period of tepid demand for contingent healthcare workers, orders for nurses…
An Associated Press review of hospital readiness, hospital capacity and other emergency readiness capabilities has found the U.S. hospital system is unprepared for an Ebola outbreak.
As payment and utilization structures in healthcare change, so too may usage patterns. The following are four findings on executives' predictions for emergency department volumes in the next five years, from a Kurt Salmon report, "Utilization of Healthcare Services."