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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Discharges Admissions Hospital Collaboration 303

EvidenceCare

MARCH 18, 2025

Instead, he sees an opportunity to integrate multiple services to support both hospital and overall wellness goals. Dr. Wilcoxs journey into digital health started with a simple observation: patients in the post-anesthesia care unit were experiencing unnecessary delays in discharge, leading to longer hospital stays.

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Hospital Discharges Appointments Patient Safety 130

EvidenceCare

JUNE 11, 2024

In our efforts to empower hospital clinicians to provide better care by having real-time transparency to cost and benchmark utilization data, we’ve learned that one of the core code systems that defines modern hospital resource management – Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) – is misunderstood or even unknown. What is a DRG?

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Hospital Discharges Documentation Admissions 130

Scrubs

APRIL 4, 2023

The hospital terminated her for violating its policies by failing to restrain the patient. The man in question arrived at the hospital wielding a hammer just before 4 AM local time. The man was then discharged from the hospital and put in the county jail.

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Discharges Hospital 264

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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Discharges Hospital Transfers Patient Satisfaction 238

Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

A 76-year-old woman presents to a community hospital after waking with garbled speech and right-sided weakness. Case 1: Excess An elderly woman is admitted to a community hospital with a minor stroke. The hospital does an excellent job. By the time she leaves the hospital, she has no residual symptoms. I love my job.

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Follow-Up Tests Hospital Discharges 275

Scrubs

MARCH 7, 2023

When Small’s babies were discharged from the hospital several months after she gave birth, Mullen asked if they could exchange numbers, and the two have been a part of each other’s lives ever since. That’s one of the things we clicked on while I was in the hospital.” But their relationship didn’t end there.

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Discharges Hospital Huddles/Rounds Scheduling 290

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Hospital Unit Organization and Environment Acute Care Vital Signs 149

Scrubs

MARCH 15, 2023

We routinely have dozens more admitted patients than we have licensed hospital beds.” “The impact is most visible in our emergency departments, where we are seeing a high influx of patients with acute illnesses and conditions that require hospitalization,” the statement reads. .

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Discharges Patient Safety Hospital Medication 242

Scrubs

AUGUST 11, 2023

trillion, was spent on hospital services. Patients around the country are getting stuck with enormous medical bills as hospitals continue to mark up the cost of their services, including those for routine medical procedures and advanced surgeries. Overall, she spent a month in the hospital recovering from surgery.

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Billing Medication Insurance Hospital 245

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Old-fashioned doctors routinely seek all of the patient's previous medical records, not just the discharge summaries. We are lucky to work at a time when a review of a discharge summary, lab findings, and radiology results can usually give you a pretty perfect sense of what has happened and what remains necessary.

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Physical Exams Tests Diagnostics Discharges 309

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

hospitals’ operating margins went negative in January 2021 after turning north for the first time in December 2020 since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the February 2021 Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall, commissioned by AHA, the American Hospitals Association. during the pandemic.

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Hospital Discharges Outpatient Care 86

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We wait to be discharged. ” If you’re waiting to be discharged from the hospital, what time you’ll be able to leave is anyone’s guess since one hand often doesn’t know what the other hand is doing. In an article titled, “ Can Hospitality Cure the Woes of Healthcare?”

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Patient Experience Discharges Physical Exams Hospital 52

Scrubs

JULY 31, 2023

What about the drug errors that happen at home, away from the hospital setting? By adding this information while we dispense or administer medications throughout the patient’s hospital stay, the message will be consistent and allow the patient or their caregiver to hear the medicine’s instructions.

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Discharges Hospital Medication 206

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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Billing Hospital Discharges Admissions 246

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Yet, every time they would come into the hospital, we would discharge them with the same plan. I saw the same people over and over, but there were loads of services for people experiencing homelessness and addiction issues. There was a disconnect between what we were saying and the person,” she said of her experience.

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Acute Care Critical Thinking Discharges Follow-Up 261

Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

Jefferson Health, which operates 18 hospitals throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, recently announced it is using the Nurse Emeritus Program to keep retired nurses engaged. She said the program is already paying off at hospitals around the country by helping new RNs learn the skills they need to excel on the job.

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Discharges Huddles/Rounds Hospital Medication 242

KevinMD.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Hospital readmissions continue to be frequent despite their negative impact on health outcomes and financial strain on the health care system overall. percent of patients across the nation who have been discharged from a hospital, whether to a post-acute care facility or a home, will be readmitted for unforeseen circumstances.

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Hospital Acute Care Discharges 67

Scrubs

AUGUST 9, 2023

As you go about your daily duties at work, there are opportunities for you to question whether nursing practices at your hospital are valid and current. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, New York. This led to better management of patients’ pain, and earlier discharge from the ICU. billion on an annual basis.

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Communication Triage Patient Care Discharges 246

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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Discharges Admissions Hospital Patient Satisfaction 130

Medical Economics

APRIL 17, 2025

A University of Michigan program using digital monitoring slashed hospitalizations by nearly 60%, offering a model for scalable post-discharge care.

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Admissions Hospital Discharges 59

Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 17, 2019

Jefferson Health, a 14-hospital system in Philadelphia and New Jersey with more than $5 billion in revenue, named Chicago-based Prepared Health its digital technology partner for post-acute and transitional care. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Hospital Discharges Collaboration 79

Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Hospital administrators across the nation advocate the merits of Magnet designation. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), an affiliate of the American Nurses Association, awards Magnet status to hospitals that satisfy designated criteria that measure the strength and quality of the institution’s nursing care.

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Hospital Patient Safety Discharges Patient Care 97

Scrubs

AUGUST 3, 2023

Humble Brilliance “In our training, doctors are so separated from nursing staff that we don’t really get to appreciate their input until we’re independently practicing,” says Anita Swamy, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist and the medical director of diabetes at La Rabida Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Petersburg, Fla.,

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Vital Signs Hospital Discharges Huddles/Rounds 246

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

as more patients get discharged to hospital-for-home and more acute-care workflows that fall on burdened caregivers (that is, family members and friends). Here is ECRI’s list of patient safety concerns a decade ago in 2015. Many more of these have to do with “technology” and devices (e.g.,

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Patient Safety Discharges Diagnostics Acute Care 77

EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In case you aren’t familiar, the Two-Midnight Rule mandates that a patient’s hospital stay must span at least two midnights to qualify for inpatient status, directly influencing reimbursement rates and compliance requirements. In the MA Final Rule, however, CMS explicitly states that the two-midnight presumption does not apply to MA plans.

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Documentation Admissions Hospital Discharges 130

EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

This comprehensive guide provides hospital and revenue cycle leadership with vital insights on preparing for CERT audits and establishing processes for compliant documentation. Hospitals need to be aware of these state-specific rules as well. Think of your documentation as the ironclad defense for your hospital admissions.

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Documentation Admissions Discharges Billing 130

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

One of the company’s key messages for CES 2021 was health care delivered outside of hospital settings – especially in a person’s home across the continuum-of-care — for virtual medical care, health promotion, and overall well-being. George tells us about being discharged home after dealing with heart failure in the hospital.

Discharges 144

Discharges Hospital Follow-Up Vital Signs 144

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.

Discharges 130

Discharges Admissions Hospital Collaboration 130

Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Advancing these efforts, the BPCI Advanced model introduces a consolidated retrospective payment system that addresses services within a 90-day period following discharge or outpatient procedures. Collaborating with community-based resources allows hospitals participating in the BPCI to more adeptly aid those who are most at risk.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Acute Care Discharges Collaboration 52

Relias

MARCH 1, 2023

As an SNF operator, one strategy to rebuild occupancy and increase revenues is to partner with a local hospital and become part of its SNF-preferred network. Many hospitals are establishing preferred SNF networks to refer their patients for continued care. She encouraged hospital providers to increase the amount to 80%-90%.

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Hospital Acute Care Discharges Patient Satisfaction 52

Sensible Medicine

JULY 19, 2023

What led him or her to the hospital or caused another doctor to admit the patient? Whatever else goes on in the hospital, this is a problem that needs to be addressed, if not solved, prior to discharge. Ask yourself, Why did this patient get admitted? Remind yourself of this fact every day.

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Admissions Diagnostics Discharges Tests 189

Mobius MD

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By predicting admissions and discharge patterns, AI helps prevent overcrowding and reduces wait times. Optimizing the Supply Chain Like patient flow management, hospitals and clinics rely on a steady flow of medical supplies and medications to provide effective care. Yet supply chain disruptions remain a common challenge.

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Follow-Up Appointments Scheduling Triage 52

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In June 2021, Montefiore was evaluating performance improvement initiatives to enhance patient experiences and alleviate flow challenges and decided to open a discharge lounge. The idea of a discharge lounge isn’t new, but being assisted by the clinician with whom patients just bonded is. Why did you become a nurse?

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Discharges Unit Organization and Environment Hospital Performance Improvement Initiatives 69

Arkenea

MARCH 9, 2025

In recent years, hospital mobile app development has emerged as a critical tool in the healthcare industry, providing patients with convenient and accessible healthcare services. In this blog, we will explore the benefits, development process, hospital mobile app technology trends, challenges, and more.

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Hospital Tests Follow-Up Medication 52

Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 13, 2024

What led him or her to the hospital? Remind yourself why the patient is in the hospital every day. Whatever else goes on in the hospital, this is a problem that needs to be addressed, if not solved, prior to discharge. Ask yourself, Why did this patient get admitted? What led another doctor to admit the patient?

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Tests Admissions Diagnostics Discharges 130

Guideway Care

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Transitional care management (TCM) plays a critical role in reducing hospital readmissions by ensuring patients receive proper care and support as they transition from the hospital to home. By focusing on follow-up care, medication management, and patient education, TCM addresses the primary factors leading to readmissions.

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Discharges Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction Transfers 52