Kelsey Brimmer
A newly released report documents the successes of a private hospitals program to safely discharge homeless patients and save money for the participating hospitals.
Last week, the Jackson Health System, a six-hospital network based in Miami, announced it will be considering proposals for outsourcing physicians, physician assistants and advance nurse practitioners in its emergency departments.
Large hospitals are big consumers of energy. Just how much is the subject of new results from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS).
With healthcare undergoing intense market transformations in payment models, revenue sources and the demands of healthcare innovation, leaders in the field need to focus on actively managing the move to value-based payments and accelerate their planning for these transitions.
Earlier this month, the Mayo Clinic agreed to settle claims by the U.S. Department of Justice that the Rochester, Minn.-based healthcare system falsely billed Medicare and Medicaid for surgical pathology services that were not provided.
According to a study released Monday by The Commonwealth Fund and published in the August issue of Health Affairs, safety-net hospitals that currently rely on politically-negotiated funding will face significant financial reversals if they fail to change their business practices before the Affordable Care Act (ACA), deficit reduction programs and a weak economy force cutbacks in subsidies.
Respondents to a 2011 AMN Healthcare survey indicate that healthcare professions are increasingly taking advantage of social media and mobile devices for job searching purposes and shifting away from some traditional job search methods.
Over the last seven months, St. Joseph Health System (SJHS), a large Catholic healthcare organization located across California and western Texas, has been using a multi-disciplinary approach to engage its physicians and clinicians in understanding the impact of clinical practice patterns and resource variability.
When it comes to healthcare and patient collections processes, good communication is key, said Sunni Patterson, president and CEO of RMK Holdings, a healthcare collections company in Chicago. However, she believes that for a large number of hospitals and healthcare systems across the country, communication between healthcare providers, payers and patients is the missing piece.
Chief financial officer John Cornell at Meadows Regional Medical Center, a 64-bed rural hospital in Vidalia, Ga., spoke recently with Healthcare Finance News Associate Editor Kelsey Brimmer regarding some of the most prominent financial issues that rural hospitals face in the future and have been facing in the last few years.