Acute Care
Wide variations in hospital performances can have a major financial impact on patients, health systems and surrounding communities, according to researchers at the health system.
Preparation, collaboration and regular disaster drills within trauma systems will save lives, surgeons said.
Report argues that less technically challenging surgeries, such as the removal of a whole kidney, may not benefit as significantly from a robot's help.
Patients who report more intense and numerous physical and psychological symptoms see longer, and often unplanned, hospital stays.
In fact, execs say automated systems are a requirement for survival in the rural healthcare market these days.
Researchers find increasing use by vulnerable populations as socioeconomic and racial inequality creates barriers to the use of healthcare.
Joint venture has already seen the opening of their first rehab hospital in Avon and the third hospital is set to open in November.
Physicians object to the policy they say will cause patients to delay seeking treatment and leave bills unpaid.
Increased poverty in the suburbs has led to emergency departments in those areas becoming the primary source of care for poor and uninsured, Health Affairs study says.
Doctors had only been seeing about 10 patients a day in the emergency room, which is about one-third of what a hospital of that size needs to stay afloat.