Hospitals improve on infection control after COVID-19 spike: Leapfrog
However, patient experience scores declined again, which could be the result of ongoing labor shortages, according to Leapfrog Group CEO Leah Binder.
However, patient experience scores declined again, which could be the result of ongoing labor shortages, according to Leapfrog Group CEO Leah Binder.
Dealing with natural disasters, severe weather events, active shooters, mass casualties and other external events requires hospital staff to coordinate with multiple outside agencies but communicating with stakeholders can be a challenge.
As employment continues to decline in skilled nursing facilities, regulators, healthcare industry leaders and workers’ unions are split on how to make roles more attractive.
Regulators finalized a number of rules Thursday with sweeping implications for providers in the Medicare program, including rates for next year that doctors and hospitals slammed as insufficient.
States have assessed the eligibility of 28 million Americans to date, and terminated coverage for 35% of them, according to the latest data from KFF.
The lawsuit filed on Thursday alleges the agency overstepped its boundaries when issuing guidance seeking to limit hospitals’ use of third-party tracking technologies.
As of Wednesday, Minnesota hospitals must check patients’ financial assistance eligibility prior to sending debts to collections, as a part of a multi-year push around charity care oversight.
The partnerships aim to improve care coordination and referrals from Walmart’s 23 health centers in the state.
The massive for-profit operator has allegedly shuttered services at Mission Health, the hospital system it acquired in 2019, violating the terms of its purchase agreement.
An expected economic downturn has yet to materialize, leading Cigna to say Thursday it expects to add at least 1.6 million members this year, up 200,000 lives from previous forecasts.