Jeff Lagasse
One in three American adults -- about 80 million people -- has high blood pressure, and according to the AMA that number is steadily climbing.
Kindred had previously announced a plan to exit its skilled nursing facilities business, or renew the current lease on its unpurchased facilities through 2025.
iVantage exec says new administration could pay closer attention to the Save Rural Hospitals Act, a bill that was proposed in 2015 with bipartisan support.
Media outlets have spent the past few days theorizing about the potential implications.
CHC Consulting team members have already begun conducting an operational assessment, will make recommendations.
Social spending has modest but detectable effects on population health, whether or not the spending primarily targets health.
Unfortunately, the delivery and financing systems for public health and social services are highly fragmented, Health Affairs says.
A 2013 study showed that charity care constituted only 1.9 percent of nonprofit hospitals' operating expenses.
For some, acquiring technology, building data infrastructure and hiring IT professionals to crunch the data is just too costly.
Tools like QLess allow patients to wait wherever they feel is convenient, and to come to the hospital when their number is called.