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Strategy
Cedars-Sinai Partnering with Providence on Tarzana Hospital
A major expansion project that has been underway at the facility is expected to be completed in about three years.
Clinical Care
Postacute Care Location Matters for Readmissions
After adjusting for proximity to a home healthcare agency versus an SNF, the difference was a 5.6-percentage point greater rate...
Innovation
HHS Unveils Medicare 'ET3' Emergency Transport Payment Model
The model will give providers the option of treating Medicare FFS patients at the scene, or using telehealth, and to...
Clinical Care
Powerful Antibiotics Frequently Prescribed for Discharged Patients
Even as hospitals try to cut back on prescribing powerful antibiotics for their patients, many of those patients still head...
Strategy
Threats to Hospitals Emerging Already From CVS-Aetna Combination
CVS has vowed to change the way U.S. healthcare is delivered, including efforts to give patients less need to use...
Clinical Care
Providers Walk 'Fine Line' Between Informing And Scaring Immigrant Patients
The proposed 'public charge' rule would allow the federal government to consider immigrants' use of an expanded list of public...
Nursing
A Patient Care Advocate Primer for Nurses
Here's how healthcare providers can work with private patient care advocates to improve patient care and outcomes.
Clinical Care
Emergency Medical Responders Confront Racial Bias
Unconscious bias can be subtle, but, as this new report shows, it may be one of the factors behind race-linked...
Clinical Care
Medicaid Plans Cover Doctors' Visits, Hospital Care — And Now Your GED
'I think this sets the standard for the unique role of Medicaid managed care in bridging health care and social...
Clinical Care
When Medicine Makes Patients Sicker
The FDA is supposed to inspect all factories, foreign and domestic, that produce drugs for the U.S. market. But a...
Clinical Care
Hep C And Drug Abuse Often Go Hand In Hand, But Screening For Infection Lags
Not testing these patients for hepatitis C is an enormous missed opportunity, public health experts agree.
Clinical Care
The VA's Private Care Program Gave Companies Billions and Vets Longer Waits
Trump wants to supersize a program that spent almost a quarter of its funds on overhead.