The number of children with medical complexity is growing and an efficient discharge requires a team approach. Here is how to make the transition successful.

You walk into the ER expecting answers and leave feeling more alone than when you arrived. When a staffer asks, "What did you expect us to do?" you realize the system treats urgent moments like a ...

Ideally, getting discharged from the hospital should be a happy time for most patients. However, transitioning to outpatient care is often challenging—and all too often, there are gaps that keep ...

CANTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDITECH customer Fraser Health (Surrey, B.C.) – the largest regional health authority in British Columbia – has experienced significant improvements in patient ...

A resident of Surrey, B.C., who was shocked when a hospital transfer service delivered a confused stranger to his home, instead of his father, says he doesn't want other seniors to experience the same ...

Medicare spent $25 billion on patient care at skilled nursing facilities in 2023, where, to qualify for coverage, a patient must need daily skilled nursing or rehabilitation services. Hospital ...

Credit: Getty Images This month’s Legal Advisor documents a case of a patient becoming acutely ill while away, and the proper steps the nurse practitioner took while in the emergency department. The ...

A new approach to hospital discharges at UCLA reduced the time patients spent waiting to leave the hospital by nearly 50% for four common diagnoses and improved length of hospital stay by 2.5 days, ...

Every day, millions of people are discharged after extended hospital stays, but matching these patients with appropriate care facilities can be arduous, often reliant on months-old, inaccurate data.

A retrospective multicenter study found that patients with heart failure discharged by noon had higher short- and long-term mortality and increased early readmission rates compared with afternoon ...