Community Benefit
The number of baby boomers hitting age 65 increases daily. Within that larger demographic is a submarket those in the seniors housing industry are eyeing with interest: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender seniors.
Earlier this year, a national study of physicians found that doctors believe their patients’ unmet social needs lead directly to worse health and that they wished the healthcare system would pay to connect patients with the services they need.
Charitable pledges to nonprofit healthcare organizations in both the U.S. and Canada slowed in 2010. With these dwindling pledges many healthcare systems are finding it difficult to generate the philanthropic funding necessary to meet their long-term, construction, equipment and patient needs.
As healthcare evolves, where do finance professionals fit in? Out front, helping to shape changes? Or more toward the back, ensuring the decisions of others all add up?
Across the nation, healthcare organizations are discovering that collaborative care transcends the medical discipline. Patients often experience “upstream” legal problems that can later adversely affect their health. That’s why there’s a dramatic increase in the number of medical-legal partnerships (MLPs), where legal professionals work closely with providers to identify and resolve these issues.
A recently released interdisciplinary study revealed that very low birth weight infants fare better in hospitals that have earned Recognition for Nursing Excellence (RNE) and are designated Magnet Hospitals by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Wednesday $10.4 million in grants will be dispersed to rural health providers over three years.
Last week, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) announced the launch of a new accreditation program for small hospitals, which will be offered through the Accreditation Association for Hospital/Health Systems Inc. (AAHHS).
A coordinated takedown by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in seven cities resulted in fraud charges against 107 people announced the Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday.
As social media continues to be employed as part of a healthcare organization's business strategy, there are bound to be some who are leery of its benefits. But according to a recent whitepaper by the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS), refusing to recognize social media as a valuable source of communication is quickly becoming a major "don't."