Dive Brief: The Pennsylvania Department of Health this week issued an order requiring hospitals to update protocols ensuring staff safety throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. New policies include universal mask wearing for everyone entering a facility and comprehensive contact tracing among workers. Hospital staff who have been in contact with confirmed or probable COVID-19 cases must… Read More »
The operator of a coronavirus-hit Sydney nursing home where 16 residents have died admits it would have been easier if those infected at the facility had been transferred to hospital rather than treated on-site. But NSW Health is standing by the response to the outbreak given numerous elderly and frail people were involved with serious… Read More »
My body is clay and everyone is dragging it in different directions. Hospitalized patients will also receive counseling with a therapist and an evaluation by a psychiatrist. I wash off all the fat, the food and the lethargy. Eating food may even become like a ritual. Anorexia is a serious condition, so it is important… Read More »
All for-profit hospital operators reported an increase an admissions growth during the third quarter of this year, raising questions about whether the uptick is just a blip or represents sustainable growth. The gains in the third quarter add on to the accelerating admissions growth throughout the year. Tenet reported its third consecutive quarter of admission… Read More »
LAS VEGAS — Former Geisinger CEO David Feinberg offered a peek behind the curtain at Google Health on Monday at the HLTH conference, outlining areas for the tech behemoth to disrupt, including artificial intelligence in disease prediction and prevention and hospital administration. The tech giant has invested in voice technology to help doctors and patients, methods to… Read More »
Dorothy Twigg was living on her own, cooking and walking without help until a dizzy spell landed her in the emergency room. She spent three days confined to a hospital bed, allowed to get up only to use a bedside commode. Twigg, who was in her 80s, was livid about being stuck in a bed… Read More »
Dive Brief: CMS has finalized some proposed changes to the hospital wage index but is heeding some concerns from national groups like the American Hospital Association and Federation of American Hospitals that facilities in urban areas would be unfairly dinged in the original plan. The final Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule released late Friday will… Read More »