Category: Care Coordination

Massachusetts General Hospital has opened a “discharge lounge” — a new way the Boston-based hospital is alleviating capacity challenges. 

Current and former physicians at Northern Maine Medical Center fear the hospital’s decision to end maternity services May 26 will lead to poor patient outcomes, according to Bangor Daily News. 

Hospitals near the southern U.S. border are preparing for a surge of patients as Title 42, the tighter policy of U.S. border enforcement enacted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, comes to an end. 

Immigration-related Florida Senate Bill 1718 is now on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk for signature and has drawn opposition from the state’s healthcare providers.

When emergency strikes, what’s more important than the ability to communicate effectively with all members of the response team — in and outside of your hospital? 

Florida healthcare providers and state lawmakers may be on a collision course over plans to force patients to reveal their immigration status, according to an April 28 WLRN report.

McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Okla., has lifted its hard lockdown after a series of threats were made against the hospital and staff in recent weeks.

Starting May 8, Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health plans to temporarily redirect labor and delivery services from its Laurens County (S.C.) Hospital to another facility about 40 miles away, FOX Carolina reported. 

Just nine days ahead of the end of the public health emergency in the U.S., Boston-based Tufts Medical Center became the first known hospital in the country with zero COVID-19-positive patients, WFXT, a Fox affiliate station, reported May 2.

McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Okla., was placed on a hard lockdown May 1 after a shooting threat was made against staff, CEO Brian Whitfield wrote in a news release on the hospital’s Facebook page.