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Early Palliative Care Improves Patient Care, Reduces Hospitalizations
The word palliative literally means to cloak or conceal, and is used to describe care designed to alleviate the extreme pain and suffering of those with chronic or terminal illnesses. It's an ironic...
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5 Barriers to Optimal Care in the Post-Acute Setting
Summa Health System's care coordination network of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is working to decrease fragmentation, length of stay and unnecessary readmissions while improving outcomes of care....
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Infographic: American Hospitals Are Prepared to Care
There were 26 million more emergency department (ED) visits in 2011 than in 2000, yet there are 189 fewer EDs, according to a new infographic from the American Hospital Association. Payment gaps in...
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3 Emergency Department Interventions to Curb ‘Ultra-Utilizer’ Use
Drawing upon an 18-month pilot to curtail wasteful utilization in Ohio ERs, especially by Medicaid beneficiaries identified as 'ultra-utilizers,' Mina Chang, Ph.D., chief, health services research and...
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Infographic: Alternatives for Potentially Preventable ER Visits
Ten common conditions represented more than 2 million annual emergency room visits in New York at an estimated cost of about $1.3 billion, and nine out of 10 of them could have been avoided or treated...
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Infographic: 18 Million Non-Urgent ED Visits
Many states are moving toward co-payments for Medicaid patients who visit emergency departments for reasons classified as "non-urgent," according to a new infographic by Policy Prescriptions. The...
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Infographic: An Assessment of Acute Unscheduled Healthcare
A healthcare model providing care at a high cost and with high rates of emergency department utilization, no matter the level of quality, is not sustainable, according to a new infographic by Phillips....
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