Jefferson Abington Hospital has closed its inpatient behavioral health unit and will use the 23 beds to accommodate extra patients in its emergency department, the health system said this week.

Renee Y. Hsia ([email protected]) is a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a core faculty member at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, both at the University of ...

Physician staffing shortages are serious, with rural hospitals in particular having a difficult time keeping enough doctors ...

Emergency departments are now responsible for half of all inpatient admissions and accounted for nearly all the increases in admissions between 2003 and 2009, according to a new report from Rand ...

A new peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine shows healthcare provider participation in health information exchange (HIE) services is associated with reduced emergency ...

Nonadherence to essential chronic medications and mental health diagnosis were associated with higher hospitalizations and emergency department use among Medicare super-utilizers. Objectives: To ...

New numbers reported this week suggest that inpatient psychiatric care capacity in Vermont slowly started to rebound last year, but still remains significantly below pre-pandemic levels. Meanwhile, ...

A new study, released by Health Affairs as a Web First, looks at surprise medical bills—an unexpected bill from an out-of-network provider or a bill from an out-of-network provider not chosen by a ...

The physician group that has staffed Palomar Health’s emergency rooms for many years is now staffing the inpatient departments at the district’s two main hospitals. The expansion of services by CEP ...