Population Health
The Baltimore health system put Robert Peace back together after a car crash shattered his pelvis. Then it nearly killed him, he says.
Dr. Samuel Ross had been CEO of Bon Secours Health System for three months when he went to a dinner party in 2006 and first heard the name some Baltimoreans use for the hospital.
10 hospital outreach programs have been recognized for their unique approaches to helping underserved communities around the country with national Hospital Charitable Services awards from Jackson Healthcare. The winning programs got equal shares of $100,000 of unrestricted funds offered through the Hospital Charitable Services Awards, Jackson Healthcare said in a statement.
A new study on death rates and readmissions suggests that when it comes to treating older men for heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia, veterans' hospitals compare well with others.
The Greater New York Hospital Association is pitching a $2.5 billion plan they say will ensure the financially distressed safety net hospitals throughout the state survive by paying the larger healthcare providers to integrate them into their own systems.
In a recent study, Truven Health Analytics found more than a $10,000 price variation in bundled spending for knee and hip replacement, depending on geography.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced access to preferred cost-sharing pharmacies has improved, with the bottom 10 percent of plans so far this year offering access within two miles of 71 percent of urban beneficiaries. That's compared to 40 percent of beneficiaries who had similar geographic access in 2014.
Despite much hand-wringing over the size and quality of provider networks on the health insurance marketplaces, many top-notch hospitals are available in-network in marketplace plans this year, a new study found.
DignityHealth next month will break ground on one of four small hospitals in Las Vegas, part of a plan to bring more care to underserved neighborhoods of the famous desert city.
While the medical importance of vaccines is largely known, a pair of researchers is looking to define just what economic value vaccines play in the realm of global healthcare.