As the healthcare industry adopts the philosophy of accountable care, large hospitals and academic medical centers may seem to have the upper hand compared with community hospitals, because larger ...

The home-based care model offers a promising strategy for improving quality of care, while also reducing health care spending. “In this study, we show that enrolling HNHC patients with cardiovascular ...

Cleveland-based University Hospitals has added around 10 hospitals over the last decade, and is now working on changing its model to a more portfolio-centric approach. During the Becker’s 11th Annual ...

Anson General Hospital needed to transfer a pediatric patient to a specialist at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, but the only ambulance in Anson wasn’t available. If it had made ...

While most home hospital programs have so far been implemented in urban areas, a rural home hospital model, or RHH, has successfully delivered hospital-level care to patients living in rural areas ...

The proposed alternative payment model for hospital nursing would eliminate the incentive for hospitals to decrease spending on nursing year over year. Since the introduction of the Triple Aim by the ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated after publication with reaction comments from hospital industry associations. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a 2.4% payment rate ...

Originally created out of a combination of necessity and opportunity during the COVID-19 pandemic, Health First’s innovative Hospital at Home program has now reached 1,000 patients as hospital leaders ...

A risk-standardized model that includes patient factors, such as age and cardiogenic shock, can predict in-hospital mortality in patients with AMI. A new risk-standardized model can predict ...

Researchers developed and validated a machine learning model based on logistic regression that used routine clinical and treatment data to accurately predict in-hospital deaths among patients with ...