In the past, innovation in healthcare in the acute setting was heavily focused on improvements in procedural interventions or critical care. Recently, however, there has been a shift and developing ...

Expanding the types of conditions for which hospital patients can be discharged early to post-acute care, forgoing full prospective payment, could save the Medicare system millions of dollars annually ...

Patients who received care under the pandemic's Acute Hospital Care at Home program had a low mortality rate and minimal complications related to escalations back to the brick-and-mortar hospital, ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is releasing data on the Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative through the Research and Data Assistance Center. ResDAC collected data from November 27, ...

The care of individuals with dementia in acute hospital environments represents a critical nexus where clinical challenges, workforce expertise, and organisational structure converge. With an ageing ...

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 recently published study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons proposed using the rate of discharge to post-acute care facilities after major surgery as a benchmark for hospital quality ...

Patients in Medicare Advantage plans are staying longer in the hospital but receiving considerably less post-acute care than their peers in traditional Medicare, according to a new study. Skilled ...