Acute Care

Many people don't know about sepsis. Meanwhile, health care providers struggle to identify it early.

Instead of the usual "deny-and-defend" approach, they are revamping their policies to be more open.

Baptist Health South Florida is among numerous health systems in southern states that are at the epicenter of growing concern over the spread of the Zika virus.

Despite research that shows staying in bed can be harmful to seniors, many hospitals still don't put a high priority on making them walk.

The Minnesota Hospital Association released a study Friday that shows significant shortcomings in patients getting appropriate care for mental health issues in their hospitals.

Elderly and disabled Californians were less likely to go to the emergency room or be hospitalized after their in-home caregivers participated in an intensive training program, according to a report.

According to an analysis published Monday in Health Affairs, more than a third of the nation's hospitals in 2013 did not offer patients similar language assistance. In areas with the greatest need, about 25 percent of facilities failed to provide such services.

About one-third of patients over 70 years old and more than half of patients over 85 leave the hospital more disabled than when they arrived, research shows.

Premier Inc. is joining forces with America's Essential Hospitals, which champions care for vulnerable populations, in a bid to improve quality, cost and population health at its member hospitals.

The federal government will punish more than half of the nation's hospitals -- a total of 2,597 -- for excess readmissions by withholding more than half a billion dollars in Medicare payments over the next year, records released Tuesday show.