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Incident began as a domestic dispute in the hospital parking lot that escalated to gunfire between suspect and police inside the hospital.
The combined, privately held company will operate under the LifePoint Health name and will reach into 85 non-urban communities.
If approved by the Court, the agreement will resolve more than two years of civil antitrust litigation.
Pilot program showed an 18 percent drop in opioid use and cut length-of-stay in half for certain surgery patients, yielding big savings.
Case study: Revised paper statements and new digital patient portal drove a 38% improvement in self-pay collections, a 21% reduction in cost-per-dollar collected and patient satisfaction rose from 28% to more than 50%.
A trio of wildfires has devoured tens of thousands of acres in California, killing at least 29 people.
Of more than 2,600 hospitals graded, a total of 32 percent earned A's, 24 percent earned B's, 37 scored C's, 6 percent got D's and just under 1 percent received an F.
Quorum ended the first nine months of 2018 with a net loss of $179.5 million, compared to an $87.4 million net loss in the same period last year.
NYC H+H emergency departments are also implementing new treating procedures for opioid abuse patients called Emergency Department Addiction Teams.
The four actionable areas described by the authors can be applied and modified for virtually any hospital.