Across hospitals and health systems, stroke care sits at the intersection of several pressures leaders know well: rising acuity, uneven access to specialty care, workforce constraints and growing ...
The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously voted on legislation to continue acute hospital care at home, a program supported by the American Hospital Association and numerous other provider ...
HOLYOKE — MiraVista Behavioral Health Center, a medical practice in Holyoke, recently added 10 new inpatient beds to its ...
Based on evidence that has emerged from the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) waiver initiative, policy makers and health systems are waking up to the realization that well-supported family ...
Atrium Health’s Levine Children's Hospital has launched the first Hospital at Home program in the country that focuses on children and their families. Few would argue that the hospital is no place for ...
With pandemic-era telehealth and Hospital at Home waivers expiring, executives are curtailing or ending some virtual care services. Supporters, meanwhile, are lobbying to extend those flexibilities or ...
Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), formerly called nosocomial pneumonia, is defined as pneumonia occurring 48 hours after admission to the hospital and excluding those incubating at the time of ...
During one of our (Zain’s) last year of medical school, I took care of a 70-year-old woman who was admitted for a mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation. She was requiring slightly ...
Saint Francis Health System is launching a new program to deliver hospital-level care in patients’ homes across northeast ...