Category: Care Coordination

Several hospitals are scaling back or cutting all inpatient services for a variety of reasons, including cost and staffing concerns. 

Children’s hospitals in the U.S. are experiencing unseasonable capacity issues amid an influx of children sick with flu, enterovirus and respiratory syncytial virus.

Kansas City, Mo.-based University Health opened a new neonatal intensive care unit Sept. 13, ABC affiliate KMBC reported Sept. 14. 

Radnor, Pa.-based Main Line Health will fully transition its pediatric care from Melbourne, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia per a new affiliation agreement. 

Physicians from Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Group’s pediatrics department and Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital will provide services at Cookeville (Tenn.) Regional Medical Center as the result of a new agreement. 

Geriatric emergency departments are being added to hospitals nationwide as COVID-19 and a rapidly aging population illuminate these patients’ vulnerability and distinct needs. 

Froedtert Kenosha (Wis.) Hospital is closing its emergency department and shifting acute inpatient services to Froedtert Pleasant Prairie (Wis.) Hospital by Oct. 1. 

Children’s hospitals in Illinois are declining transfer requests and struggling to keep beds open amid an unusually early spike in the number of children infected with enterovirus or rhinovirus, the Chicago Tribune reported Sept. 12.

Portland, Ore., residents can expect to wait 40 days, on average, to be seen as a new patient in physician offices. New Yorkers can plan to wait nearly half as long.  

Merit Health Central in Jackson, Miss., plans to close the state’s only burn center on Oct. 14, the Clarion Ledger reported Sept. 8.