Category: Care Coordination

Hospital-at-home programs are growing in popularity among hospitals, but the burden it adds to unpaid caregivers is one reason why 10 percent to 62 percent of families turn down the option, NPR reported July 18.

Hospital-at-home programs are growing in popularity among hospitals, but the burden it adds to unpaid caregivers is one reason why 10 percent to 62 percent of families turn down the option, NPR reported July 18.

Last fall and winter, hospitals took a number of steps to handle what for many was an unprecedented demand for care amid a simultaneous surge of respiratory syncytial virus, flu and COVID-19.

A car crashed into a Maryland hospital July 16, requiring some intensive care unit patients to be transferred elsewhere, according to the hospital.

 Emergency department boarding remains at crisis levels even as the pandemic dwindles — and capacity problems will likely persist for hospitals through the next decade. 

A power outage at Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Medical Center South forced the hospital to reschedule elective surgeries and procedures, CBS and ABC affiliate WJAX reported July 12.

The emergency room and general medical unit are now open at St. Francis Hospital-Interquest in Colorado Springs. The 72-bed facility is Centennial, Colo.-based Centura Health’s third hospital. 

UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital in Madison, Wis., is testing out an “admissions unit” — a waiting area where emergency room patients needing admission are medically monitored until a bed is open, according to a July 11 report from ABC affiliate WKOW…

Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) General Hospital moved up the date it will end childbirth services by about three weeks, with the care ending abruptly at the end of July 11, according to the Times Leader.

At least one hospital in Vermont postponed elective surgeries, and staff at multiple hospitals in the state slept at work overnight as historic flooding batters the region.