Category: Care Coordination

Main Line Health transitions pediatric services to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

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. 

Vanderbilt children’s hospital expands collaboration with regional hospital

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. 

‘They need more’: 3 geriatric emergency department leaders on why specialization is essential

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

Wisconsin hospital to close emergency department

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

Illinois children’s hospitals struggle to keep beds open amid ‘skyrocketing’ influx of kids with respiratory illness

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.

15 cities ranked by wait times for a new patient appointment

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 to close Mississippi’s only burn center

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

Atlanta Medical Center closure: What you need to know

Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System announced plans to end operations at the downtown Atlanta Medical Center on Nov. 1, which sparked a strong response from state and local officials who raised concerns about the closure’s impact on the communit…

Vanderbilt Health forms patient capacity command center

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health has developed a new patient capacity command center to aid amid high patient volumes and staffing shortages throughout its network. 

731-bed California hospital dark for hours after generator failure in heat wave

Parts of a 731-bed hospital in San Jose, Calif., were left without power for approximately four hours Sept. 6 after its backup generators failed as the state withstood days of triple-digit temperatures.