Pioneered by Johns Hopkins in 1995, the innovative hospital-at-home model provides hospital-level care in a patient’s home as an appropriate and, in some cases, better substitute for acute hospital ...

As the healthcare industry adopts the philosophy of accountable care, large hospitals and academic medical centers may seem to have the upper hand compared with community hospitals, because larger ...

Dozens of small community hospitals with low inpatient volumes will likely be good candidates to convert to the rural emergency hospital model. But before they convert, hospitals want more clarity and ...

The Innovator's Prescription (published by McGraw-Hill) argues that disruptive innovation is required to make health care affordable. In this excerpt, the authors look into the ways disruption can ...

“Micro-hospitals,” which offer full hospital services with the convenience and accessibility of urgent care clinics, are generating considerable buzz in a healthcare market that rewards these ...

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and later during the surge of the Omicron variant, hospitals around the country were at risk of running out of inpatient beds. In March 2020 the ...

If “Hospital at Home,” is a term you’ve been hearing more often, you’re not alone. The term was coined more than two decades ago, but has gained popularity in the last year as hospitals look to ...

The latest federal appropriations bill includes language that could enable some struggling rural Kansas hospitals to develop a new service delivery model that Kansas health experts say might save them ...

Anson General Hospital needed to transfer a pediatric patient to a specialist at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, but the only ambulance in Anson wasn’t available. If it had made ...

Rural hospitals facing closure will soon have another option: a payment model that allows them to convert to standalone emergency departments while ending inpatient services. Starting in 2023, CMS ...

Editor’s Note: It’s the start of the school year, which means students are returning to journalism programs around the country. As the media industry continues to evolve, how well is new talent being ...