Category: Care Coordination

With C-suite leaders placing an acute focus on patient access, throughput and capacity, hospital executives are considering how to deliver services more effectively and reduce bottlenecks. 

Numerous health systems in the path of a major winter storm moving across large swaths of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions have closed clinics and are rescheduling elective procedures. 

Hospitals and emergency responders in New Orleans are treating the victims of a Jan. 1 terrorist attack that left at least 10 dead and dozens injured.

Emergency department boarding is a longstanding and urgent challenge affecting hospitals across the country. The issue has far-reaching consequences that negatively affect care quality, clinician well-being and increase costs for health systems.

While southern states continue to recover from the devastation caused by flooding after Hurricane Helene in September, hospitals are beginning to grapple with future flood risks. Twenty Tennessee hospitals currently exist on or near flood plains, accor…

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare is set to take over operations of Dixon, Ill.-based Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital on Jan. 1. With the merger, the hospital will operate under a new name and new reproductive care policies, according to a Dec. 30 Shaw …

In the wake of a burst pipe incident, Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., has reopened some emergency department beds and shared plans to restore the waiting room and triage area by weekend’s end, according to a Dec. 28 update from the hospital. …

Emergency departments aren’t typically equipped to handle toothaches, but at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, dental care is now just a room away.

For six days, a Washington hospital will stabilize certain cardiac patients, such as those experiencing heart attacks, before transporting them to another healthcare facility. 

Water issues at hospitals in three states resulted in diverted care and transferred patients.