Acute Care
Lowest performing hospitals before passage of the Affordable Care Act showed biggest improvement after being penalized, researchers say.
Some physicians are concerned moving the surgeries out of hospitals will land vulnerable patients in the emergency room with pain, complications.
In the past 20 years, the rate of hospitalization among seniors that is related to opioid overuse has quintupled.
Eliminating the waiting room sends the message that the hospital is waiting for the patients, not the other way around, said Feinberg.
Patients sometimes find an additional charge, generally between $30 and $200, tacked onto their bill for visiting overnight.
Patients experienced more than 3 million fewer of these adverse events during that period.
The high-need population is older, has lower levels of education and income and includes more women and African Americans.
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Only 2.5 percent of psychiatric patients seen at transitional care clinic return to ER within three months.
49 percent say they "often or always" experience feelings of burnout, would not recommend a career in medicine to their children.