Patient Care News:
As the year comes to a close, CHI-Dignity are poised to create a mega health system. Meanwhile, in D.C., budget drama unfolds like a reality T.V. show....
Safety-net hospitals, like Mount Sinai on Chicagos West Side, often provide a broad array of community benefit programs that arent adequately captured by the current tax reporting framework....
Keck Medicine of USC CEO Thomas Jackiewicz is positioning the organization to take on bundled payments, as well as to acquire new hospitals....
Healthcare leaders know that the world is changing, and that they should refocus and become a force for health creation and preservation in their communities. But they need incentives to make the change....
Insurance industry officials want the CMS to give them a leading role in any pilot progams allowing the feds to pay for housing and similar social needs of patients....
WellSpan Health has achieved an 85% compliance rate for CMS sepsis treatment bundle largely because of a remote team of nurses who surveil patients vital signs and sepsis alerts from the EHR....