Beginning this year, CMS is paying hospitals a bonus or extracting a penalty depending on the quality of care they deliver. Hospitals administrators know that the difference between getting more and ...

Raise your hand if you can’t wait to be admitted to a convalescent home someday? For years I have been asking this question from the stage. And no one has come forward yet. In addition, hospitals & ...

Review the skill sets that are critical for case managers to possess that go beyond those of the traditional staff nurse role. Not all nurses can be successful case managers. Case managers must ...

Aspire Health Alliance in Quincy, Massachusetts, partners with healthcare organizations and clinics throughout Boston, the South Shore and the southeastern part of the state to care for patients ...

Case managers working in hospitals and healthcare systems provide an important link that preserves the continuum of care for patients and ensures better outcomes for providers, according to the ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- About four dozen hospital workers at The Queen's Medical Center- Punchbowl, are currently working without a contract. It expired at the end of August for nearly 50 case ...

A few years ago, Marcela Flachsland's family learned her then 77-year-old uncle had advanced pancreatic cancer. Her early impression of the New Jersey acute care hospital where he was a patient was ...

Patients, labor advocates and other opponents of hospital closures and mental health care caseworker cuts rally outside the State House on Feb. 25. PHOTO I COURTESY OF CHRIS LISINSKI/SHNS About 170 ...