Members with serious illness often experience fragmented care, avoidable hospitalizations and repeated emergency department visits before receiving meaningful support. For health plans, the result is rising utilization, higher costs and growing pressure to improve quality performance across Medicare, Medicaid and…
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As of May 2024, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline received a monthly average of 654,000 calls, text and chats, compared to 355,000 contacts when the service launched in July 2022. For providers operating within the system, the growing demand…
Renton, Wash.-based Providence is updating the behavioral healthcare model at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., a move that will affect about 40 positions, the health system said May 11. The changes will take effect July 14, according…
Spokane, Wash.-based MultiCare Deaconess Hospital has administered a long-acting buprenorphine 19 times since launching a pilot program in February 2025 aimed at treating patients experiencing opioid overdose or withdrawal. The injectable medication provides up to five days of symptom relief…
Michigan spent more than $13 million on out-of-state placements for youth mental health treatment in fiscal 2025, compared to $9.7 million the previous year, according to a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services report. As of September, 152 youths…
ASCs now handle 60 to 70 percent of U.S. surgeries, and the stakes around sterile processing have never been higher. Surgical site infections carry a price tag of $20,000 to $60,000 or more per event, and compliance gaps continue to…
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Detroit-based Henry Ford Health will received a $12 million philanthropic grant from the Four Pines Fund to expand its suicide prevention framework across multiple health systems. The funding will support suicide prevention programming at Henry Ford Health, Lakewood-based Kaiser Permanente…
2026 marks an unprecedented convergence of forces that will reshape the market landscape: This executive brief reveals why traditional gap closure programs are failing and how diagnostic intelligence enables the shift from retrospective campaigns to continuous, real-time quality management. Healthcare…
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Most health systems have built programs that deliver results for specific populations: cancer patients, high-risk cardiology cases, post-discharge transitions. The harder question: what happens to everyone else? Rising-risk patients with one or two chronic conditions often cycle through primary care…
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Referrals are one of the highest-volume workflows in healthcare and one of the most broken. In one large health system study, only about 54 percent of inbound internal referrals were completed. That gap represents more than lost revenue. It reflects…
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