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Ascension plans to acquire the facility early next year; meanwhile 635 employees will be laid off come February.
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.
Pilot program showed an 18 percent drop in opioid use and cut length-of-stay in half for certain surgery patients, yielding big savings.
NYC H+H emergency departments are also implementing new treating procedures for opioid abuse patients called Emergency Department Addiction Teams.
With the mandate repealed, and DSH dollars unchanged, competition for that money is going to be fierce, experts predict.