Category: Care Coordination

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.

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…

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. 

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.

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

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

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 (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.

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.

Provident Hospital on Chicago’s South Side is set to begin accepting ambulance patients again on Oct. 19 after pausing the service back in 2011, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.