As the healthcare industry adopts the philosophy of accountable care, large hospitals and academic medical centers may seem to have the upper hand compared with community hospitals, because larger ...

CMS proposes mandatory hospital bundled model for joint replacements to control Medicare costs and quality from surgery through 90-day recovery.

The home-based care model offers a promising strategy for improving quality of care, while also reducing health care spending. “In this study, we show that enrolling HNHC patients with cardiovascular ...

Anson General Hospital needed to transfer a pediatric patient to a specialist at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, but the only ambulance in Anson wasn’t available. If it had made ...

While most home hospital programs have so far been implemented in urban areas, a rural home hospital model, or RHH, has successfully delivered hospital-level care to patients living in rural areas ...

Originally created out of a combination of necessity and opportunity during the COVID-19 pandemic, Health First’s innovative Hospital at Home program has now reached 1,000 patients as hospital leaders ...

Since the introduction of the Triple Aim by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) more than15 years ago, efforts to improve the US health care system have been guided by the goals of ...

When Carmen, an 84-year-old, was diagnosed with a respiratory infection requiring intravenous treatment, her family assumed that she would spend several days admitted to a hospital ward far from her ...