Acute Care
The voluntary Intermountain Partners in Healing program enables patients' family members to perform various tasks both in the hospital and at home after discharge.
As the flu keeps hitting emergency rooms and inpatient stays, hospitals that have reached capacity are using ambulance diversions.
Particularly surprising was the speed at which the improvements took place, with better surgical quality results within two years of the expansion.
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.
The software also helps such specialists operate more smoothly and meet government reporting requirements under MACRA and MIPS.
As more care is being delivered in outpatient facilities, Scripps said it will design its acute care hospitals to care for the most seriously ill patients.
Facility boasts 60 private rooms, state-of-the-art rehabilitation equipment to treat patients recovering from stroke, spinal cord injury, brain and other injuries.
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.