In the last few years, rates of hospital readmissions have become a key indicator of care quality, and for good reason. When significant numbers of patients in post-acute care settings experience a ...

Racial disparities in cardiac arrest survival are not due to early DNAR orders, as survival rates were similar across racial ...

Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), also known as nursing homes, experienced a decline in operating capacity following the COVID-19 pandemic, which was associated with patients experiencing longer ...

For most patients, the hardest part of healing begins not inside an ICU or an operation theatre, but after discharge.

In early November 2015, CMS issued revisions to its requirements for discharge planning for hospitals, critical access hospitals and home health. The American Hospital Association generally supports ...

Instead of thinking of patients as "discharged" once they leave the hospital, which implies care is finished, many healthcare professionals believe it's time to treat home as a fundamental care ...

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 & ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KUTV) — A Southern Utah man feels he is fighting the medical system for his life. Lewis Bank, a cancer patient at the St. George Regional Hospital, said he feels let down by the care ...

Dear Carol: My dad has been in the hospital for open-heart surgery. He's now being discharged and will come home with me until he recovers enough to go back to his home where he lives alone. Long-term ...