Category: Care Coordination

Pittsburgh-based UPMC and the Department of Veterans Affairs  Veterans Integrated Service Network No. 4, or VA Healthcare–VISN 4, are expanding a nurse liaison program that improves health outcomes and care for veterans.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic reduced unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory infections by 50% without diminishing patient satisfaction by implementing an ambulatory antibiotic stewardship program.

Officials at Exeter (N.H.) Hospital, have agreed to continue operating a specialized paramedic program through at least Dec. 20 after meeting with New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella. 

The John Hopkins Howard County Medical Center Foundation launched a new campaign to raise $3 million to expand its behavioral health unit in Columbia, Md. 

Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health has postponed the closure of Exeter (N.H.) Hospital’s advanced life support paramedic intercept program after intervention from the New Hampshire attorney general’s office, ABC affiliate WMUR reported Sep…

McLaren Bay Region, a 415-bed hospital in Bay City, Mich., is consolidating services and employees, citing “transformational changes affecting the global healthcare industry.”

At the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Sept. 11, Rep. Morgan Griffith, chair of the subcommittee, called the United Network for Organ Sharing’s 38-year operation of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Net…

East Kingston, N.H.-based Exeter Hospital will shutter its advanced life support paramedic intercept program Sept. 20 due to financial challenges and changing care demands, The Portsmouth Herald reported Sept. 10.

This year, Becker’s has reported on care deserts expanding for five specialties.

Washington state’s behavioral health hospitals have reduced admitting time for mental health patients from jail to its facility, The Seattle Times reported Sept. 10.