Quality and Safety
Founder Elizabeth Holmes said the company will close its clinical labs and Theranos Wellness Centers in Arizona, California and Pennsylvania.
Critics say the procedure is being oversold, leading some patients to get a treatment they don't need.
Organizations will focus on assessing the feasibility of the new measures within Medicaid and CHIP patient populations.
Just two teaching hospitals with at least 500 beds earned top C. diff prevention scores, meaning their infection rates were 50 percent better than the national benchmark.
This summer, the federal government directed $1.4 million to five pilot projects located in southwest Virginia as well as Tennessee and Kentucky.
Only 25 percent of hospitals funded teams in 2013 that included a physician, advanced practice or RN, social worker, chaplain, analysis shows.
Through 2019, these networks will work to achieve a 20 percent decrease in overall patient harm and a 12 percent reduction in 30-day hospital readmissions.
More than 3,000 cases have been reported in the continental United States, though most were contracted by people traveling abroad.
MedPAC's analysis found that one-star hospitals saw an average of 78 percent of admissions through emergency departments while five-star hospitals were closer to 36 percent.
A disproportionate number of patients discharged from safety-net hospitals lack access to resources that are needed at that point, such as social support and primary care.