emergency medicine
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Covid-19
'It Doesn't Feel Worth It': COVID Is Pushing New York's EMTs to the BrinkNearly half of New York City's 4,400 emergency medical technicians and paramedics have tested positive for the COVID virus. Five...
Finance
Pandemic Continues to Strain Hospital Volumes, Margins, Revenues in 2021Year-over-year volumes fell across most metrics as many healthcare consumers continued to avoid or delay care.
Revenue Cycle
2021 Hospital Visit Volumes Expected to Stay LowVisits stagnated below pre-COVID-19 levels in the last 25 weeks of 2020 and will likely stay that way throughout 2021.
Finance
High Covid-19 Inpatient Volumes, Spooked Consumers, Stress Provider MarginsThe coronavirus pandemic wreaked bottom line havoc on the nation's healthcare delivery system in 2020 and that trend is expected...
Revenue Cycle
Reporting Stroke, Seizure in ICD-10-CM Without Pre-existing DisorderSeizures do not get classified as epilepsy unless the seizures are recurrent.
Clinical Care
How to Run an Emergency Department Social Medicine TeamAn emergency department social medicine team improves care for complex patients and supports emergency room clinical staff.
Strategy
UC Irvine Gets Green Light for $1B Health ComplexThe new hospital and a previously approved UCI Health Center for Advanced Care will create UCI Medical Center Irvine-Newport.
Clinical Care
How to Create a Safety Protocol for Emergency Department Psychiatric PatientsSafety protocols for ED patients with psychiatric illness require balancing the creation of a safe space with maintaining a therapeutic...
Covid-19
Live Free or Die if You Must, Say Colorado Urbanites — But Not in My HospitalEven their COVID outbreaks are different: In Boulder County, the virus swirls around the University of Colorado. In Weld County,...
Clinical Care
Warning: Doc's Birthday May Be Hazardous to Your Health!A UCLA-led study found that 30-day mortality rates are 23% higher for patients 65 and older who are treated on...
Clinical Care
HIPAA During Natural DisastersIf information is used or disclosed for directory purposes without the patient's agreement, the patient must be told and given...
Covid-19
Rural Areas Send Their Sickest Patients to Cities, Straining HospitalsMany rural communities across the U.S. have resisted masks and calls for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, but now...