The American Academy of Pediatrics released new guidelines for improving patient safety for children who are directly admitted into a hospital without first receiving care through an emergency ...

The Pembroke Regional Hospital (PRH) has introduced a new referral pathway that allows primary care providers to directly ...

The reduced availability of sophisticated tests and proceduresin hospitals on weekends (the so-called "weekend effect") delayscare. Addressing this problem requires hospital managers to balancethe ...

In the post-pandemic world, hospital staffing has become a moving target. Costs have soared for many facilities, forcing them to stretch their resources to match fluctuating demand. Add in frequent ...

Hospitals with a high percentage of patients cared for in the intensive care unit are more likely to incur higher costs and perform more invasive procedures with no improvement in patient mortality ...

A plan to phase out a list of procedures that can be performed only on an inpatient basis has major implications for skilled nursing coverage post-surgery, a major aging services advocacy group is ...