Health system leaders track efficiency through length of stay, discharge timing and throughput. Patients measure it based on whether they understood what was happening and felt their care was on track. Both matter, but only one determines whether they return.…
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Nashville, Tenn.-based Centerstone named Lindsay Bennett as its new chief revenue officer. Ms. Bennett has more than two decades of healthcare finance and operations experience, with a background in revenue cycle management, financial planning and analysis, business intelligence, operational transformation,…
The business case for workforce investment doesn’t look the same in every organization — and it shouldn’t. In some rooms, the win is stakeholder buy-in. In others, it’s proving you can keep momentum and morale through disruption. And sometimes, it’s…
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About 21% of staff at Solnit South, Connecticut’s psychiatric hospital for children based in Middletown, are out on workers’ compensation for injuries sustained on the job, the Hartford Courant reported Aug. 24. Lawmakers have called the situation a “safety crisis,”…
The age-adjusted death rate for alcohol-induced deaths among U.S. adults aged 45 and older increased from 2014 to 2024, according to an Aug. 20 report from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Death rates increased from 19.5 per 100,000…
A fast-moving wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills has forced two Northern Nevada Health System facilities in the Reno, Nev., area to evacuate patients and close, according to CBS News and The New York Times. Here are five things to know: 1. The…
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services has had a busy summer. On Aug. 17, the health system closed a $835 million acquisition of Talkspace, an online behavioral health provider. It’s a deal CEO Marc Miller said creates the nation’s first end-to-end…
An individual experiencing a behavioral health crisis walks into the emergency department. Instead of lying on a gurney in the hallway or sitting in a chaotic waiting room, they’re led to a recliner chair in a calm environment and seen…
Stroke care is a journey, not a single episode. Creating an effective stroke system requires a coordinated, patient-centered approach that spans the entire continuum of stroke care, from prevention and early recognition through emergency response, acute treatment, rehabilitation, recovery, and…
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Health systems process enormous volumes of protected health information every day, which makes every facility a high-value target. Most IT teams already treat encryption as a baseline defense. Fewer can prove the encryption they rely on actually works as promised.…
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