Category: Care Coordination

Hackensack Meridian, New Jersey EMS build 50-bed field hospital in hurricane response drill

As part of a comprehensive natural disaster response exercise on Oct. 21 and Oct. 22, Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health and the New Jersey EMS Task Force built a 50-bed field hospital to ensure continuity of care in the event of a hurricane…

RSV surge creates risk of ‘tripledemic’

An unseasonably early and severe surge of respiratory syncytial virus is overwhelming children’s hospitals and boosting the risk of a so-called “tripledemic,” alongside flu and COVID-19, The New York Times reported Oct. 23.

Health systems brace for ‘twindemic’ with calm confidence

As health system leaders confront the possibility of a COVID-19 and flu “twindemic” this year, they aren’t focused on new strategies to handle a potential influx of patients. Instead, they’re doubling down on what they know from their experience with t…

UM Health to provide pediatric services at Trinity Health hospital

Livonia-based Trinity Health Michigan and Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health have partnered to expand pediatric specialty care at Trinity Health Oakland, a 497-bed hospital in Pontiac, Mich. 

Significant gaps in Texas healthcare availability, coverage

Healthcare in Texas shows significant gaps in coverage, with nearly one-fourth of people not having access to a regular source of care, according to a new report from the University of Houston and Texas Southern University.

Sexual assault-related ER visits climbed 1,533% in 13 years, study finds

Emergency department visits related to sexual assault increased more than 1,533 percent from 2006 through 2019, according to a new study.

Brown University links with Care New England for labor, delivery center

Providence, R.I.-based Brown University gifted $5 million to Care New England, also in Providence, to build a new labor and delivery center. 

‘It’s the perfect storm’: Capacity issues intensify at children’s hospitals amid RSV surge

Children’s hospitals across the country are increasingly operating at or beyond capacity as they struggle to treat an unrelenting surge of patients with respiratory illnesses.

Avera Granite Falls ending labor and delivery services

Avera Granite Falls (Minn.) Health Center is ending labor and delivery services as it moves to a shared regional model for this care, according to a news release shared with Becker’s Oct. 19.

Carle Hospital petitions to make 36 emergency beds permanent

Urbana, Ill.-based Carle Foundation Hospital filed a petition with state regulators seeking to make its 36 temporary COVID-19 beds permanent, the News-Gazette reported Oct. 19.