Stephanie Bouchard
The Department of Labor has released a competency model for the long-term care industry that officials hope will solve long-standing issues of low wages and a high staff turnover rate.
Participatory medicine has become a trend with the potential to transform the healthcare industry, say its supporters.
Brian Goldberg, an architecture teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design, said he was talking to a physicist about the development of a medical device for patients who need 24/7 monitoring for a heart attack for the rest of their lives when he began to think of how artists and designers could impact the healthcare system.
It’s not unusual for nursing home patients to spend the last weeks of their lives in acute care hospitals even if they have made it known that they don’t want to end their days there.
As the administrative burdens associated with Medicare pile up, some doctors are growing frustrated and walking away from the program or limiting the number of Medicare patients they see.
The long-term care industry is one of the largest employers in the United States, yet its direct care workers are woefully underinsured, according to a new analysis.
A new face-to-face meeting requirement for home healthcare patients receiving Medicare has left some physicians and home healthcare groups disgruntled and industry experts shaking their heads at the idea that it will prevent fraud and waste.
In the future world of healthcare molded by the legislation of healthcare reform, doctors, hospitals and insurers are going to have to make changes to their business models if they want to be successful, according to an analysis by the Psilos Group.
As hospitals and doctors align their interests in order to take advantage of financial incentives offered under healthcare reform, the two groups, traditionally competitors, must learn to be collaborators says a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, a global professional services company headquartered in London.
Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates is negotiating the acquisition of seven hospitals from Mercy Health Partners - Tennessee, a subsidiary of Catholic Health Partners.