In this Q&A, the CEO of the Pennsylvania Hospital Association shares insight into a recent rural health roundtable, where providers shared with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius their concerns about health IT, financial stability, and access to quality care.
Hospitals' financial viability is more important than ever, and when it comes to critical access hospitals, understanding the strategies that make them financially resilient and strong is crucial.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which usually conduct separate reviews of medical devices to determine safety, effectiveness, and whether they merit federal coverage, will test a parallel review process for...
The design of a community hospital in Louisiana conceals non-patient functions 'backstage' in an effort to boost patient satisfaction and increase the efficiency of hospital workers.
An innovative process improvement program increases patient and nurse satisfaction, while boosting rural hospitals’ recruitment and retention of nurses.
In the community paramedic model, patients are referred to Emergency Medical Services personnel by their primary care physician in order to receive services in the home, such as hospital discharge follow-up, blood draws, medication reconciliation, and wound care....
A pilot program developed as a result of the President's Rural Health Initiative, has identified 40 grantee organizations that will receive about $300,000 each to purchase equipment, install broadband networks, and provide training for staff.
A critical access hospital CEO shares how his organization became not only the first hospital in Wyoming to achieve stage-one meaningful use, but also one of the first CAHs in the nation to do so.
With the help of the North Carolina Hospital Association and a grant from the Duke Endowment, five rural hospitals banded together to learn and apply lean management principles. A hands-on approach from the hospital CEO is vital, they found.
A federal initiative to boost jobs includes an expanded loan repayment program and access to capital loans programs for health IT. The addition of just one primary care physician in a rural community generates approximately $1.5 million...
