Community Benefit
With both doctors and nurses in high-demand, more education and diversity is needed and there are steps hospitals can take now to address the problem.
Agency has issued blankets waivers to unburden providers, opened special enrollment period for Medicare beneficiaries to get, change coverage.
Hospitalization rates and emergency room use can be up to three to four times higher for those without a home.
Here are some of the things hospitals should be working to put in place and resources available during storm season.
Confusion over navigating the complex healthcare system translates into a significant customer-service cost burden for insurers.
System has signed a definitive power purchase agreement for 180 megawatts of clean energy, which is enough to power 27 of its 39 hospitals.
After the major provisions of the law were implemented, 77.8 percent of Latinos of Mexican heritage reported having health insurance, a 10-point increase.
Visits to the emergency room to treat low-acuity conditions decreased by 36 percent; Use of non-emergency room centers increased by 140 percent.
Be There San Diego focuses on reducing preventable morbidity and hospitalizations for heart attacks through clinical and community action efforts.
Why Asha Strazzero-Wild decided not to become a doctor but, instead, to focus on using tech to improve the patient experience.