For more than 30 years, the mission of U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Hospitals rankings has been to help guide patients, in consultation with their doctors, to the right hospital when they need care. The devastating coronavirus pandemic underscored the importance of high-quality health care. While disrupting life […]
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Hospitals are overwhelmed by the surge in COVID patients infected with the delta variant. Kyle Green AP In the year and a half since its savage debut in the United States, the coronavirus pandemic has stretched our healthcare system nearly to the breaking point. Florida has a workforce shortage that […]
ECMO is the highest level of life support — beyond a ventilator, which pumps oxygen via a tube through the windpipe into the lungs. Instead, the ECMO process basically functions as a heart and lungs outside of the body — routing the blood via tubing to a machine that oxygenates […]
The hospital in the home program has been used to care for COVID patients at home, according to a recent report by The Saturday Paper. Expert opinion is divided on whether or not such COVID cases should be included in the hospitalisation rate figures released by governments; that question goes […]
Cory Cronin and Berkeley Franz A study by Ohio University professors Cory Cronin and Berkeley Franz found that for-profit hospitals were more likely than nonprofit and public hospitals to be in communities with greater economic and health needs. These findings mean that for-profit hospitals are often located in communities with […]
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When the security guard at Methodist Hospital San Antonio met the visitor at the door of the children’s emergency room on a Saturday afternoon in early August, the officer’s request […]
For weeks, a new wave of COVID-19 cases has surged through the Gulf Coast region, threatening health care capacity and emergency services across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Now, with Hurricane Ida making landfall, the region could see a collision of two public health emergencies in areas still grappling with the […]
A growing number of people sick with coronavirus are putting a pinch on hospitals and emergency medical services in the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula, health officials said Friday. The Luce, Mackinac, Alger and Schoolcraft District Health Department issued a public health advisory, saying there are now 31 separate COVID-19 […]
Hospitals report that three-quarters of the intensive care units in the United States are full, as COVID-19 continues to rampage the country. Federal data shows almost 77.3 percent of all ICU beds are occupied with 28 percent of those beds filled with confirmed COVID-19 patients, according to the Department of Health […]
August 26, 2021 – 9:00am Hearing. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) will conduct a public hearing on August 26, 2021, at 9:00 a.m., to receive public comments on the proposed rule for the Medicaid Reimbursement for Hospital Outpatient Services. Due to the declared state of disaster stemming […]