The future of healthcare is in streamlining the care process to reduce the number of patients physicians see and improve informatics — but no one is ready to invest in these changes, two leaders told Becker’s.
Like many hospitals across the country, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., often operates at capacity. But working closely with area market hospitals has been key to improving patient flow and mitigating boarding, …
A ransomware attack on OneBlood, a nonprofit blood center, is prompting some systems to activate critical blood shortage protocols and causing at least one organization to postpone elective inpatient surgeries, the Miami Herald reported July 31.
OhioHealth Grant Medical Center in Columbus is on track to save $6.6 million and more than 16,800 excess patient days after implementing new inpatient technology.
OhioHealth Grant Medical Center in Columbus is on track to save $6.6 million and more than 16,800 excess patient days after implementing new inpatient technology.
Forty-nine percent of emergency department visits occurred outside of standard business hours, according to a Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare report published July 29.
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., is expanding its pediatric transplant services with the addition of pancreas and lung transplantation.
Cleveland-based MetroHealth is integrating midwifery into its women’s healthcare services to support maternal care outcomes and reduce disparities, leaders said July 22.
Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network has created a “mini-ER on wheels” that adds physicians to the EMS response team, Lehigh Valley News reported July 22.
Six months after GSK stopped making a popular inhaler, pediatric patients with asthma still struggle to find alternative medications while urgent cares and hospitals contend with a rise in asthma-related pediatric visits, NPR reported July 22.