Acute Care
Blueprint includes cuts for care in hospital outpatient departments, teaching hospitals and post-acute care providers, AHA says.
The U.S. has its first case of infection by human-to-human contact, CDC has confirmed.
Five patients have been identified in this country, with all having traveled from Wuhan, China, where the disease originated.
There was a 2% drop in ICU deaths at non-minority hospitals, but the same improvement rate was not seen at minority-serving hospitals.
Dignity Health-GoHealth Urgent Care's network of 14 locations will extend to San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin and Alameda counties.
The tool, Patient Unified Lookup System, enabled volunteers to access patient information and and deliver quality care, especially crucial medications.
The proposed transaction would yield one of the largest urgent care provider systems in the country, with a combined 251 clinics in 10 states.
For patients referred for an in-person specialty care visit, the median wait time decreased from 50 days before eConsult to 28 days with similar results for high-urgency patients.
The additions will increase the size and scale of the MUSC Health network, delivering greater value to patients and positively impacting population health.
The industry is on track to generate more than 1.1 million new jobs by 2026, spurred in part by demand for nurses. But there's also mild trepidation about AI.