New hospital partnership boosts revenue, adds nursing home services for underserved community
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 29, 2024
A new collaboration aims to add skilled nursing beds to a region with substantial hospital back-ups, while also meeting a growing demand for additional pediatric and dialysis services.
Study: When community-onset SARS-CoV-2 went up, so did cases that started in hospitals
By
Kristen Fischer
Aug 29, 2023
Rates of people contracting SARS-CoV-2 in the hospital were similar to other hospital-acquired infections. But when the number of infections that began in the community was higher, there was an increase...
Backlogged hospitals want back into the nursing home business — without the hassles of ownership
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 08, 2024
Many hospitals and health systems that have cut back on their own skilled nursing capabilities over the last two decades are now looking to take back additional control over their post-acute processes.
About 25 percent of hospitalizations for two conditions are preventable, report finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Nov 30, 2023
A new study finds that about one-fourth of hospitalizations for congestive heart failure or bacterial pneumonia could have been prevented.