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Clinical Care
Q&A: Implementing Trauma-Informed CareWhile there is a growing consensus that this type of care is necessary, implementing it may be a challenge.
Covid-19
Organ Transplant Patient Dies After Receiving COVID-Infected LungsOfficials at the University of Michigan Medical School suggested it may be the first proven case of COVID in the...
Strategy
More and More Hospital Surveys May be Onsite, Depending on ConditionsHowever, in many cases hospitals still may be subject to their regular onsite, triennial reaccreditation survey. And they will be...
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...
Covid-19
Dying on the Waitlist In Los Angeles County and around the country, doctors have had to decide who gets a lifesaving COVID-19 treatment and...
Clinical Care
Study Finds Low-Value Care for Medicare Patients Only Marginally DecreasingThe study by RAND Corporation found that study participants who received low-value services decreased less than 3% between 2014 and...
Covid-19
Vaccines Go Mobile to Keep Seniors From Slipping Through the CracksAs the state vaccination plan moves past long-term care facilities and on to the next group, deploying mobile units will...
Technology
FDA Cautions Providers on Using Ventilator SplittersAgency hasn't received reports of adverse events during emergency use, but risks remain.
Covid-19
Counterfeit N95 Scam Widens as Senator Demands FTC InvestigationSen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) said she would ask the FTC to look into 1.9 million counterfeits shipped to hospitals in...
Covid-19
Lack of Covid Data on People with Intellectual Disabilities 'Comes With a Body Count'While some high-profile outbreaks made the news, a lack of federal tracking means the population remains largely overlooked amid the...
Clinical Care
Healthgrades Names 2021 'America's Best Hospitals'Healthgrades analyzed the performance of nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide across 32 conditions and procedures.
Covid-19
Vaccine Hesitancy vs. Vaccine Refusal: Nursing Home Staffers Say There's a DifferenceIn North Carolina, the health secretary has said more than half of nursing home workers are declining the vaccine.