Legislation that would allow nurse-midwives to practice independently is mired in a dispute about whether hospitals should be allowed to hire them.
When patients have to go to the hospital, they're likely to choose a facility that employs their doctor, a new study suggests. The study, which finds that patients of independent doctors often choose low-cost and high-quality hospitals, hints that not all organizations are successfully integrating care.
For the first time, doctors have a financial incentive to keep patients out of the hospital. That's leading to some interesting changes.
Doctors are humans and should feel human when they get sick.
A new study found that giving back results in 38 percent fewer hospital stays.
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An AHRQ report shows hospital efforts to improve patient safety have resulted in about $19.8 billion in cost savings.
Many families step up to give care, but the demands on them get little attention.
I’ve recently been helping a friend who has been managing her mother’s transitions from a hospital to a rehab facility and then to another rehab facility that now wants to send her home before she, or her family, is ready. It reminded me of how tough family caregiving transitions can be. I’ve been through so many of them with my parents and my sister — some smooth, others unexpected and rocky. As a study in the American Journal of Nursing found, …
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Hospitals are forming networks with post-acute care and continuing care partners to ensure quality across the continuum.
Hospital culture flows from the personalities of its leaders.
We’re guessing that you've been to a hospital at one time or another — whether to visit a loved on or get treated themselves. And we’re also guessing that you have no desire to go back to a hospital again.<br>Sadly, hospital readmissions are all too common, so common that hospitals are being penalized
Several hospitals are blazing trails with Twitter’s live-streaming platform. Let’s look at how three providers are delivering health and wellness to patients via real-time video.
To fight the environment that leads to moral injury and burnout, doctors and nurses must eliminate clinical silos and work together to make an impact.
Some hospital stays are not admissions but are done to put the patient under observation, which affects Medicare reimbursement and coverage.
Big insurance companies are opening their own doctors' offices and clinics — a strategy that has previously met with mixed results.
Just as we plan for college, buying a home or retirement, we must plan for our family's and our own aging and long-term needs.