Acute Care
Patient factors must weigh equally under Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program to avoid crippling penalties for safety-net facilities, study says.
Cost savings are further bolstered by avoiding unnecessary surgeries and achieving lower rates of expensive complications.
Rhode Island, where more than 1,000 people have died from painkiller or heroin overdoses since 2009, is taking the lead.
Hawaii and Massachusetts earn nearly as much as those in California, with average annual salaries of $90,000 and $88,000, respectively.
Project will yield 267-bed hospital with all major services under one roof, adding to efficiency, quality, system says.
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More than 65 million ED mental health visits reported, substance abuse behind 41 percent of them, results show.
30 percent of all health spending, $750 billion, is wasted on fraud, administration and needless procedures, estimate says.
As many as 1.4 million seniors survive a stay in the ICU every year; most go home, with varying degrees of disability.
New research shows race and geography prevent some of the most vulnerable from obtaining effective treatments, including powerful anti-coagulant that can break up the clot causing the stroke.