Community Benefit
Healthcare staffing provider Soliant Health announced the top 20 winners of its fifth annual Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S. awards.
With a number of studies indicating that one in three patients enters U.S. hospitals malnourished and many more becoming malnourished once admitted, five organizations decided to band together to launch the Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition.
Lawmakers introduce bill to extend Federal Tort Claims Act liability protection to practitioners volunteering at community health centers and free clinics.
As hospitals and health clinics are striving to make their facilities more accessible, more personable, and more efficient, one health system is doing just that by taking a large source of stress out of the equation - the waiting room.
A recent survey published in JAMA Internal Medicine has shown that hospital performances on publicly reported conditions may potentially signify overall hospital mortality rates.
At the end of last week, University Hospitals (UH) and EMH Healthcare (EMH) announced that they had signed a letter of intent to officially undergo an integration that will add EMH to the UH health system.
For many small, community stand-alone health systems across the country, eventually merging with another larger healthcare organization remains a distinct possibility. Until that day arrives though -- if it does at all -- these organizations must continue to focus their efforts on meeting the quality care needs of the local community.
Payers and employers are demonstrating that wellness programs can curb increases in healthcare costs and improve workforce productivity as employees become more involved in their health. Health plans shared their programs and results during a session on Thursday at the 2013 AHIP Institute in Las Vegas.
Disruptive innovation challenges the status quo, drives change and creates new markets. But what does disruptive innovation mean in regard to health benefits and healthcare delivery? A few companies tried to answer that question at the 2013 AHIP Institute Thursday.
Clinicians and program managers from two Beacon Communities and the ONC share lessons learned about patient engagement at the HIMSS Government Health IT Conference earlier this week.