Health Populi
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years.
Bill of Health
JANUARY 20, 2022
has been the failure to meet surging demand for inpatient care. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape. By Barak D. Richman and Steven L.
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Bill of Health
JULY 11, 2022
Urgent calls have been made in many quarters, including the government, to try and stem the rise in clinical negligence costs, as the growing expense is taking away scarce financial resources which could be well put into front line health care services. The figures go into the £billions. Stemming the Rise in Negligence Costs.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Some of the decline in service volumes has been for screenings and preventive care, which will result in underdiagnosis of, for example, cancer conditions further downstream — with more acutely, advanced cases requiring more aggressive (and potentially expensive) treatments. health care?
Bill of Health
MARCH 16, 2022
In theory, all this care could be delivered in seniors’ homes and communities. The disability rights movement has long struggled against unnecessary institutionalization in state hospitals and nursing homes, winning wide recognition of the principle of aging in place.
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
For several decades, health care reformers have been advocating “fee for value” or value-based care, which supposedly rewards long-term results instead of individual encounters. Ultimately, the study found small reductions to overall health care costs. ” Remote patient monitoring.
Bill of Health
OCTOBER 5, 2023
By Hannah Rahim Algorithms used in health care have the potential to improve health outcomes but are susceptible to racial bias , which can have detrimental consequences for minority populations. Involvement of state governments State Attorneys General in California and D.C.
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