Community Benefit
The efforts of a number of hospitals across the country to improve the health of their patient populations by promoting healthy foods are a benefit to the hospitals themselves and their communities.
A Michigan pilot to bring primary care to the home for patients living with advanced chronic illness will now spread across the state. Priority Health, a Michigan-based nonprofit health plan, tested the concept last year with Spectrum Health Medical Group for 90 of its patients.
The benefit of nonprofit hospitals to their surrounding community has increasingly been coming under scrutiny -- at least in relation to whether or not the benefit is equal to their tax-exempt status.
When it comes to hospital construction and design, the decisions around what is built and how it's built all have significant impact on not only an organization's bottom line, but also the quality of care given to patients.
The arguments surrounding nurse practitioner scope of practice have been heated from both the NP side and the physician side but some in these fields are pushing for conversations that move beyond the rhetoric.
Patient Safety First has helped California hospitals avoid 3,576 deaths and more than $63 million in unnecessary hospital costs between 2009 and 2012.
To combat potential patient harm and reduce the costs from misdiagnosis, hospitals and medical practices are turning to clinical decision support tools.
The trend of providers owning health plans took a big step forward in New York last week when the state approved North Shore-LIJ Insurance Company's application for an insurance license.
Last week Community Health Systems announced it is acquiring Health Management Associates for approximately $7.6 billion.
Everyone uses email but doctors continue to show a reluctance to use it to communicate with patients.