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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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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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I handed them the same box of single ply tissues I was now sobbing into, as I handed them a pen to sign their discharge paperwork. Two weeks after my emergency room discharge, I continued to live life as if nothing happened, returning to work without any healthcare follow-up to address my emotional burden.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

In a multinational, open-label, randomized, parallel-group trial, patients aged 18–85 years, admitted to hospital with acute heart failure, were randomly assigned to either usual care or high-intensity care. The primary endpoint was 180-day readmission to hospital due to heart failure or all-cause death.

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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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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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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

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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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 261

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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Hospital Insurance Discharges Admissions 148

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

Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Luciana Luciana’s discharge day was getting close. Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. Her hospital course was uneventful, and she made good therapeutic use of her time on the unit. Her door was open, and she waved me in.

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Discharges Hospital Follow-Up Admissions 237

Health Populi

JULY 8, 2020

The core business of hospitals is patient care, often baked with teaching and research. But wait — there’s more, asserts the Lown Institute in their approach to ranking America’s Best Hospitals in 2020. The Institute was surprised by the similarity of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals for civic leadership.

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Hospital Discharges Patient Satisfaction Patient Safety 98

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

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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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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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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Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

Diallo said no amount of hospital training could have prepared her for that fateful day in the grocery store. “I’ve I help save people all the time at the hospital. She later found out from a reporter that the family was visiting from out of state and that the baby was discharged from the hospital after two days. “I

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Discharges Hospital Appointments Medication 279

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 293

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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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

The patient safety team moves quickly to investigate, and they discover that the patient was a young woman who had given birth to her first child just two weeks ago at one of your hospitals. Anxiety was noted several times throughout her hospital stay. ” Her discharge notes state Difficulty coping with anxiety for past 1-2 weeks.

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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

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

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 Patient Satisfaction Hospital 130

Scrubs

JUNE 6, 2023

He spent five months in the hospital under her care. They lost touch after he was discharged, but they never forgot about each other. He just had a lot of admiration for her, and I think he didn’t want to let her down in the hospital and he just would do what she said.” To me, they are the hospital.

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Discharges Hospital Medication 185

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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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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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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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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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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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

Minority Nurse

MARCH 17, 2025

The ones that don’t make it into social media posts or discharge summaries. As nurses, we often see these moments in the hospital. These are the moments we celebrate, the ones that make headlines or get highlighted in patient stories. But what about the moments that come after? But we don’t always talk about it.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

They describe a patient who found themselves discharged from a service for failing to attend an appointment, in spite of their efforts to reschedule. Call for action on patients awaiting discharge The Government is under pressure to take action over thousands of patients stuck in hospital and waiting for discharge.

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