Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

APRIL 30, 2024

On Wednesday, hospitals will no longer be required to report COVID-19 admissions, capacity or occupancy data to the federal government.

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EvidenceCare

MARCH 11, 2024

These measures play a fundamental role in hospital management, financial planning, and patient care optimization. By understanding and leveraging GMLOS and ALOS, hospital executives can improve operational efficiency and patient outcomes. It is the simplest and most commonly used metric for evaluating patient stays.

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Emerging RN Leader

JANUARY 14, 2024

Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A CNO recently asked me why no one is talking about the high volumes and serious admission delays we are seeing in hospitals nationwide.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Decreasing inpatient admission volumes, shifts in the re-imbursement mix from higher-margin commercial payers to lower-margin public payers, and pressures resulting from value-based care have been solid trends during the past several years. This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

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Medical Economics

MAY 22, 2024

Mount Sinai study finds AI can predict hospital admissions in emergency departments

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

hospitals and why I’ve titled this post, “outpatient is the new inpatient,” a future paradigm for U.S. This realization is informed by data in a new report from Deloitte, Where have the many hospital inpatient gone? Our ability to create that network outside the hospital is huge.”

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Prism Career Institute

JUNE 1, 2024

While more than half of the medical assistants employed in the United States work in hospitals and medical offices, medical assistants can perform their duties in a variety of settings. The post Beyond Hospitals: Where Else Can Medical Assistants Work? But variety isn’t found only in their responsibilities.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. Even if that patient did not survive her hospital stay.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2020

health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. declines in expected inpatient volume and 34.5%

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Scrubs

AUGUST 21, 2023

Patients would not be repeat offenders (admissions). CT/X-ray/ultrasound machines would only be across the hall, not on the other side of the hospital. Here’s what I would have in my perfect nursing world : I’d never get pulled to work in another unit. Staffing would never be lacking. Patient families would be amicable.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Trial STRONG-HF studied two treatment strategies after a patient was discharged from the hospital after treatment for heart failure. The primary endpoint (of hospital readmission for HF or death) occurred in 15.2% One group gets extra attention in the hospital than 4 extra visits in the first 6 weeks with a cardiologist.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The article Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation’s Predictive Model Helps Prevent In-Hospital Adverse Drug Events appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2018

Beyond strong medicines, a new financial toxicity has emerged for patients due to hospital inpatient admissions. The “measurement” named in the title is graphed here as the proportion of people who filed for bankruptcy relative to years before or after hospitalization.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 27, 2023

The National Health Service has been criticized for not paying healthcare workers enough for their time, and now some providers are skipping meals just to make sure they have enough money to feed and clothe their children, according to a survey involving several hospital administrators.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Trinity Health announced it will introduce virtual nursing at its hospitals in Michigan and Ardent Health Services plans to do the same in New Mexico. It can also reduce the workload at the bedside by having remote nurses do admissions, discharges, and answer questions virtually. But not everyone agrees on the merits of this approach.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

JULY 12, 2024

Case Facts Dr P was a pulmonologist who had a practice and was affiliated with a large hospital. Mr C’s primary care physician had Mr C admitted to the hospital where Dr P practiced. After admission to the hospital, Mr C was treated with antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If applicants are more impressive on paper, but no more impressive in the clinics and hospitals, aren’t we doing something wrong? To some extent, I think this is mostly what we already do in admission/selection committees. [ii] Right now, we mostly beg people to squeeze admissions work into their already ridiculously busy lives.

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Accepted Blog

MAY 22, 2024

And from an admissions perspective, it’s essential that applicants from these groups consider how to best present themselves in their medical school applications. Self-identifying is the easiest way to let admissions committees know that you are part of an underrepresented ethnic or racial group, but it’s not the only way.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Dictate any pre-launch admission or transfer notes Launch 8 inpatient facilities are supported for dictation of admission histories, transfer notes, consultation reports and discharge summaries. The same applies for Consults performed in the coming week for patients expected to still be in-hospital post-launch.

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Accepted Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

Having worked in admissions for over two decades, I have read thousands of activity descriptions for medical school and related healthcare fields. Other applicants fill out only a few of their activity descriptions, leaving the admissions committees to wonder what they did with the rest of their time. A nonprofit organization?

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Show Summary Dr. Linton Yee, Associate Dean for Admissions at Duke University School of Medicine joins us to discuss how applicants can earn a spot in this highly competitive program. Show Notes Welcome to the 593rd episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Accepted’s Med School Admissions quiz can give you a quick reality check.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 20, 2023

She came to the hospital with three days of weakness, fever, chills, and anorexia. That night introduced me to the smell of melena — a smell that I now can recognize even rooms away on a hospital floor, and which also takes me back to that New York Hospital operating room in 1991.

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Practice Index

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It is estimated that RSV is responsible for 251 hospital admissions per 100,000 in those aged 75 and over. RSV is a significant cause of acute respiratory illness in older adults, in particular those who are living with frailty or comorbidities. It’s estimated that there are over 4,000 deaths from RSV each year in this age group.

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NHA Now

MAY 13, 2020

Pharmacy technician employers can be grouped into four main categories: community pharmacies (retail pharmacies), specialty pharmacies, mail-order pharmacies and hospital pharmacies. However, the day-to-day tasks of a pharmacy technician in a hospital are unique to that environment. Train new technicians and research pharmacy staff.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Patients may develop a disease that requires admission to the hospital, mostly because of lung problems, such as the need for oxygen. Indirect organ damage is common in medical conditions that are severe enough to warrant admission to the hospital. The disease might affect other organs—either directly or indirectly.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

He was firm but fair and throughout all my illnesses, dizzy spells, and hospital admissions, he had my back.” I took the telling off and said sorry (the night before, I went to see my mother in a chapel of rest so I didn’t sleep at all) I didn’t explain this to my supervisor though. So unprofessional.”

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Accepted Blog

MAY 3, 2023

After asking admissions officers in 2021 to rank the relative importance of the various data they use to evaluate applicants, the Association of American Medical Colleges found that “community service and volunteer work—in both medical and nonmedical settings—were given the highest weight of any experiences.” Limited clinical experience.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” health system.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 20, 2023

She came to the hospital with three days of weakness, fever, chills, and anorexia. That night introduced me to the smell of melena — a smell that I now can recognize even rooms away on a hospital floor, and which also takes me back to that New York Hospital operating room in 1991.

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Prism Career Institute

JULY 23, 2024

OB/GYN medical assistants can be found in physician offices, family planning centers, hospital outpatient clinics, urgent care, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and more. You can contact us for more information on our program and its admission requirements.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 25, 2019

The need for hospitals and physicians to recognize and react to patients showing early signs and symptoms of clinical deterioration has resulted in the creation of a rapid response system (RRS). Patient deterioration prior to adverse events including cardiac arrest and ICU admission has been reported with hemodynamic […].

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As a result of these experiences, I launched my organization Project Diversify Medicine, a digital community on Instagram with over 60,000 followers, with a mission to provide culturally inclusive pre-med educational resources to increase the admission of minorities to medical school.

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The Healthcare Blog

AUGUST 27, 2024

The plans also know that you can reduce hospital admissions for congestive heart failure patients by more than 40% by identifying which patients are at high risk of those crises admissions for heart failure — and the plans focus on those patients to make sure they have fewer crises.

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Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Consider volunteering as well, especially at a hospital, clinic, or assisted living community. As a member of one or more of these clubs, you will not only learn more about the specific topic but also collaborate with peers, discuss relevant research, and participate in academic dialogue. Work with Valerie! Schedule a free consultation today!

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Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Show Summary Would you like to hear insight based on decades of experience, both advising applicants to a variety of healthcare programs and working in admissions offices for, again, many different healthcare programs? He discusses the admissions process for healthcare programs. Chuck, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [2:29]

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Minority Nurse

JULY 9, 2024

They then work with the family to create an emergency medical plan, including the EMS system and community hospital in that plan. “We’re trying to redefine what ‘healthcare team’ means and include that child’s local 911 system, EMS, and their community hospital,” says Simon, a supervisor at Project Austin.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 24, 2022

Prisca Benson, MSN, RN is a a nurse navigator for the neuroscience department at The Valley Hospital. In 2014, I got a job as a neurology nurse at my dream hospital, NYP-Columbia University Hospital. I credit Rutgers and fellow student nurses who supported each other through nursing school. This was a dream come true!

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