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African-Americans treated at non-minority hospitals experienced a 3% decline in mortality each year, compared to no decline in mortality when...

Patients receiving extra support were just as likely to return to the hospital within 180 days as those not receiving...

CMS terminated an agreement and federal funding for Chicago Lakeshore Hospital, and the Illinois Department of Public Health is moving...

Nurse autonomy and peer support for patients are some of the components of RWJBarnabas Health's substance use disorder recovery initiative.

The reduction has cost each hospital that participates in the Medicare program an average of $200,000 per year, the suit...

Study calls for universal pre-surgery frailty screenings, even for procedures determined to be of low or moderate risk.

The joint venture will use telemedicine, in-home providers, and care management oversight to provide 'all essential elements of inpatient care...

As many as 5% of patients leaving the hospital with an infection have a 30-day readmission for that preexisting infection.

Survey links empathetic clinicians and higher patient pain management, satisfaction scores.

The 30-day mortality rate for these high-risk patients was 15.9% at major teaching hospitals, compared with 18.2% at non-teaching hospitals.

Hospitals have become so overzealous in fall prevention that they are producing an 'epidemic of immobility.'

Medication management is the primary focus of a new care protocol for Parkinson's disease patients in the hospital setting.