Shuttered Madera (Calif.) Community Hospital reached an initial agreement to have Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health take over operations, an unnamed source told The Fresno Bee July 27.
Physician offices are pretending to be hospitals and unfairly charging patients as a result, according to a July 26 opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal.
A 33-year-old quadriplegic patient was allegedly dumped out of a wheelchair outside of Phoenix-based Valleywise Health’s Maryvale campus without receiving treatment on June 14, Fox 10 Phoenix reported July 27.
Public and local government pressure could see a Baker City, Ore.-based maternity center slated to close July 31 remain open for another year, according to a July 27 The Lund Report story.
When systems use metrics like employee and patient satisfaction, what they’re really trying to capture is employee pride and patient loyalty, Eric Katz, MD, chief medical officer at Phoenix-based Banner Estrella Medical Center, told Becker’s.
Albert Wright Jr., PharmD, president and CEO of West Virginia University Health System in Morgantown, has set out on a path to reduce the cost of administrative burdens. The latest part of that effort: processing insurance claims in Epic.
Health system leaders have differing opinions on the usefulness of billing patients for MyChart messages, with some telling Becker’s it will relieve burdens on healthcare providers and others saying it will just create another one.