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Revenue Cycle
Rev Cycle Leaders Under Pressure As Over 700 Hospitals Face Payment CutsStrategizing across departments will be a crucial step in avoiding these penalties as directors within the middle revenue cycle can...
Clinical Care
Healthcare Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five StarsEight years into the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, 2,046 hospitals have been penalized at least once.
Covid-19
Watch and Listen: Examining the Risks of COVID's Spread Within HospitalsMore than 10,000 patients were diagnosed with COVID after being hospitalized for other medical conditions in 2020.
Clinical Care
Top 10 HealthLeaders Coronavirus Pandemic Stories of 2021HealthLeaders covered many of the most pressing coronavirus pandemic stories last year, including lessons learned, vaccination challenges and efforts, behavioral...
Clinical Care
"Perfect Storm" Increased Healthcare-Associated Infections During PandemicMajor increases were found in 2020 compared to 2019 in four serious infection types: central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary...
Telehealth
'Better Than the Hospital': Pandemic Boosts Care for Serious Illnesses at HomeA growing number of health systems are offering people with more serious health conditions hospital-level treatment in the comfort of...
Revenue Cycle
Medicare Cuts Payment to 774 Hospitals Over Patient ComplicationsOn any given day, one in every 31 hospital patients has an infection that was contracted during their stay, according...
Technology
Automated Hand-Hygiene Compliance Tech Tackles Hospital-Acquired InfectionsMemorial Healthcare budgets to implement Intelligent Observations' sensor-driven approach systemwide.
Clinical Care
Sharps Safety Never StopsLaboratory workers and clinicians must remain vigilant in regard to needlesticks, sharps safety, and bloodborne infection prevention.
Covid-19
Hospital Workers Complain of Minimal Disclosure After COVID ExposuresHospital workers around the country report frustrating failures by management to notify them when they have been exposed to co-workers...
Clinical Care
Surging Health Care Worker Quarantines Raise Concerns As Coronavirus SpreadsThe situation has prompted debate in the health care community about just what standards medical facilities should use before ordering...
Clinical Care
U.S. Hospitals Say They're Ready for Coronavirus. Their Infection Control Violations Say Otherwise.An outbreak would demand peak performance from America's medical professionals ? especially in hospitals. But many of the facilities that...