Patients, the press, and payers all eyes are on the topic of hospital-acquired infections. Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the Medicare program will no longer provide reimbursement for the additional costs incurred for these conditions.
Self-pay emergency department patients who have no primary care provider are being referred to a nearby primary care and specialty center under a program in place at St. Mary's Hospital in Tucson, AZ, part of the Carondelet Health Network.
Greenville (SC) Hospital System University Medical Center has been able to achieve a return on investment (ROI) of more than $6 million in two years by using technology to more efficiently capture charges.
EDs that are using the latest technology in computed tomography (CT) scanning devices are finding numerous benefits in patients with chest pain.
According to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers, ED managers and their staffs are doing a poor job of treating pneumonia and heart attack patients.
On Wednesday evening, Oct. 24, 2007, a man drove his pickup truck into the exterior wall of the ED at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon.
In the course of less than a year, the ED at Potomac Hospital in Woodbridge, VA, has reduced its rate of patients who leave without treatment (LWT) from the 8%-9% range to just under 1.5% without adding any new staff or hours.
The new ED at Adventist GlenOaks Hospital in Glendale Heights, IL, is a bit untraditional: It has no waiting room.
