Acute care happens when an adult or elderly person needs short term care in a hospital or nursing home due to an illness like pneumonia, which can cause more complications. It’s called the Adult ...

The Providence health system has an internal service available to its 51 hospitals and other rural and community hospitals in its eight-state service area, bringing specialists and other high-demand ...

New programs like Hospital-at-Home and Acute-Care-at-Home are giving health systems an opportunity to reduce inpatient traffic and give patients the care they need in their own homes. Editor's note: ...