Hospitals are expected to focus more on providing care for high-acuity patients as healthcare is increasingly being delivered at home, according to Monique Reese, DNP, RN, senior vice president of home and community care at Pittsburgh-based Highmark He…
Advocates are pushing regulators to investigate if racism played a part in the death of a patient at Inglewood, Calif.-based Centinela Hospital, but the state is ill-equipped to make such assertions, KFF Health News reported Aug. 8.
Many health insurance policies are a burden to patients and strain hospitals’ finances and burden physician time, Rick Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, wrote in a commentary piece for U.S. News & World Report.
While three health systems recently announced plans to close emergency departments, several others are working on projects to build or expand their departments. Here are seven emergency department projects Becker’s has reported since July 10: