Jeff Lagasse
The personal approach has reduced physician burnout, improved care and earned a coveted gold certification from the nonprofit Planetree group.
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, which focused on just one type of operation, saved more than $1.3 million while freeing up beds for over two-dozen additional patients.
The new facility, part of a broader $600 million acquisition and renovation strategy, comes as other health networks are also making similar investments.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has embarked on an initiative that is yielding insights that could prove valuable to any hospitals looking for ways to avoid federal reimbursement penalties from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Centers.
Chief financial officers and directors of care coordination are also earning higher salaries amid the industry's transition to new payment models, the American Medical Group Association says.
Researchers put the onus on hospitals, manufacturers and regulators to do a better job of reducing contamination and called for an end to manual cleaning processes.
The move comes during a prolonged period of financial struggle for CHS, which has seen diminished cash flow and admissions, and a big hit from bad debt.
The survey affirmed that interoperable networks are critically important when it comes to giving healthcare providers access to actionable data within the EHR.
The average expense of repeated medical care because of duplicate records costs a reported average $1,950 per patient for each inpatient stay.
Doctors have balked at the increasing burden of implementing metrics, which cost roughly $15.4 billion annually to meet.