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St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Chesterfield, MO, has found a high-tech solution to the challenge of balancing the need for security of patient records with easy access for physicians and staff.
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A new policy in King County, WA, means that hospitals in the area, which includes Seattle, will no longer go on diversion.
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How far is your ED from the intensive care unit (ICU)? How far is it from radiology? What about surgery? At the new St. Joseph's Hospital in West Bend, WI, they are all a few steps away, and this was literally by design.
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Three years ago, the average length of stay (LOS) for admitted ED patients was about 7.5 hours at the 17th Street campus of New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, NC. Today, it is down to just more than five hours.
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The creation of an "Access Center" to handle interhospital transfer coordination and unscheduled admissions at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, OK, has taken a huge load off the ED and vastly improved the movement of patients into beds.
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Government data confirm a significant gap exists in the amount of health care accessed by people who do and do not have health care coverage.
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Researchers and policy-makers are finding that efforts to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care run into difficulty because of a very basic problem.
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New Hampshire residents will have more tools to guide them in defining the type of medical care they receive at the end of their lives; and every year for the past decade, about 100 Oregonians ages 65 and older have committed suicide.
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Cuts in funding for Medicaid and SCHIP programs that reduce eligibility and enrollment are likely to achieve cost savings largely by reducing access and shifting costs away from the two programs, ...
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Understanding state initiatives developed under the Bush administration's Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability (HIFA) waiver policy can be important.
