In response to major patient care concerns, four psychiatric hospitals, owned by Pembroke, Mass.-based Arbour Health System, have installed an onsite point-person to see that the deficiencies are remedied, The Boston Globe reports.
Rankings and Ratings
UW Health–University Hospital (Madison). This 505-bed Magnet-recognized regional referral center, part of UW Health, boasts a Level I adult and pediatric trauma center, one of the nation’s first certified comprehensive stroke centers and the UW Carbone Cancer Center, which is…
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, N.H.). Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is the flagship hospital of Dartmouth-Hitchcock, a nonprofit academic health system that serves a patient population of roughly 1.9 million in New England. The hospital was founded in 1893. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock system…
A hospital revenue cycle director was telling me the other day about the considerable challenges her department faces with respect to managing direct patient payments.
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (Richmond, Va.). VCU Medical Center is part of VCU Health, which comprises the university’s five health sciences schools, Community Memorial Hospital of Richmond at VCU, VCU Massey Cancer Center and Virginia Premier, a health plan.…
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston). Sidney Farber, MD, founded the Children’s Cancer Research Foundation in 1947 to conduct research and provide state-of-the-art treatment to children with cancer. Dr. Farber also launched the first chemotherapy research program for children with cancer. In…
Cleveland Clinic. In 2015-16, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Cleveland Clinic as the No. 5 hospital in the country, as well as No. 1 in Ohio and No. 1 in the Cleveland area. The hospital is nationally ranked…
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.). Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s history dates back to 1923, when North Carolina Baptist Hospital opened. In 1941, the hospital and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine entered into a partnership, laying the…
Primum non nocere—'First, do no harm'—is the guiding principle of modern healthcare. The latest in making this possible are advances in wireless connectivity, which allow clinicians and staff to be more efficient and deliver better care to patients.
In 2014, 34 percent of Americans age 18-64 didn't visit — or even speak with — a primary care physician, according to a CDC report.