When medically complex patients require hospital care, they tend to experience longer recovery times than other patients do and are more likely to readmit to the ICU. 1,2 Kindred Hospitals, a network ...

Across the United States, healthcare systems and hospitals face extraordinary pressure to provide affordable care. As 2022 and 2023 progressed after the pandemic, hospital leaders faced an opaque ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved waivers for six health systems to provide acute care at home. The hospitals include Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts; Huntsman ...

Patients undergoing oncologic surgery at major referral centers frequently experience postdischarge care fragmentation, which has been associated with poor outcomes. This report describes and ...

Despite widespread adoption of electronic health records at hospitals and (to a lesser extent) post-acute care facilities, care coordination and outcomes monitoring among both types of providers are ...

From improving outcomes for vulnerable, post-acute patients to building collaborative networks using real-time data for measurable impact, it can take several different approaches to deliver quality ...

A medical emergency is cresting in Indiana and beyond. The number of physicians available in the United States isn’t keeping pace with the number of people needing care or who will need care in the ...

A group of long-term care providers, researchers, executives and others made their case at a congressional hearing Tuesday to leave funding for post-acute care services uncut. Their pleas came against ...