Category: Care Coordination

Readmission rates for patients in rural areas of San Diego County have increased at La Mesa, Calif.-based Sharp Grossmont Hospital, but those rates were reduced by 10% for patients enrolled in a new program, KPBS reported June 4.

Many hospitals struggle to discharge patients into post-acute care in a timely manner, but at Bon Secours Richmond (Va.) Health, three small operational changes dropped their mean length of stay from 2.21 to 1.95 days.

Eldorado, Ill.-based Ferrell Hospital is resuming some outpatient services after flooding forced the facility to shut down.

In 2015, two nurses created a program to help medically complex children during emergencies. What they did not know at the time is the program would go on to improve care for those patients as well as save hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars.

A series of water main breaks disrupted care at several Atlanta hospitals over the weekend and prompted city officials to declare a state of emergency, CNN reported June 2.

Starting later this summer, UC Davis Health will establish a comprehensive trauma recovery center to ensure patients who are victims of crime have access to appropriate mental health services, marking a first-of-its-kind program in Sacramento. 

SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital in Wentzville, Mo., has expanded capacity in its emergency department as the county’s population grows. 

By many measures, the nation’s mental health crisis is growing and with a lack of access to appropriate care, hospital emergency departments are often where patients seeking behavioral care show up. 

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital announced May 29 that it will put $60 million toward establishing a new 111,000-square-foot applied gene and cell therapy center in Sharonville, Ohio.

UPMC’s division in Central Pennsylvania is actively working to transfer patients to its kidney and liver transplant programs after Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center announced it is ending those transplant services.