community hospitals
Sutter nurses threaten to strike
After several weeks of fruitless discussion, the California Nurses Association has warned Sutter Health that it nurses plan to stage a two-day walkout in mid-December. Hospitals affected include... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: MO childrens' hospitals open EDs in other facilities; MD hospital uses urgent care to cut ED traffic; and much more
> Trend: St. Louis-area childrens' hospitals are opening up specialized emergency departments within the EDs of other community hospitals. Read more...
Trend: DC area sees growth in pediatric hospital programs
Washington, DC is home to one of the nation's most prestigious pediatric hospitals, the Children's National Medical Center. But that hasn't stopped community hospitals in the DC suburbs from building... Read more...
Groups push for federal community benefit standards
A coalition of community groups is recommending that the federal government set some strict, easily measurable community benefit standards for non-profit hospitals. The groups, led by Boston-based... Read more...
Many Los Angeles hospitals in financial trouble
Apparently, a frightening percentage of hospitals in the Los Angeles metro are fighting for their lives. According to a new analysis, almost two dozen hospitals in the area are in the red and could... Read more...
Calling all innovative hospitals
Is your acute care hospital innovative? Have you created a service, customer satisfaction program, financial management initiative or instituted other changes you're proud of? Well, now is the time to brag. …
... Read more...Survey: Health IT on the rise in hospitals
A new survey of 1,500 community hospitals conducted by the American Hospital Association has found that, despite barriers such as cost and integration, implementation of health IT is on the rise in hospitals. Nearly half of all surveyed hospitals reported moderate or high use of health IT in 2006, compared to a response of 37 percent in 2005. Large, urban and teaching hospitals are at the forefront of this movement. In addition:
- 69 percent of responding hospitals have either …
NC psych hospitals set new admissions limits
Conceding that they just don't have the capacity to deal with the rising flood of poor, mentally-ill patients, North Carolina mental health officials have closed their doors on accepting more than a limited number of patients from community hospitals. North Carolina public health execs say that the volume served by the state psych hospitals has grown rapidly since 2003, with many units serving substantially more people than they're licensed to serve. For example, Dorothea Dix Hospital in …
... Read more...ALSO NOTED: NC mental healthcare in the red; Cleveland Clinic plans $163M hospital expansion; and much more...
> A new report says that North Carolina is so behind in providing mental health services that it will need more than $500 million for the next five years to meet its obligations. Article
> The Cleveland Clinic is sinking $163 million into its Hillcrest Hospital campus expansion over the next five years, the most it's ever spent on one of its nine community hospitals. …
... Read more...Downtown Phoenix faces hospital wars
Sounds like a nasty turf war: The University of Arizona and two private health systems are wrangling over the right to build hospital in a key downtown Phoenix location. Banner Health and U of Arizona want to build a private general hospital, though Maricopa Integrated Health System had been in talks for to build a teaching hospital on the same location. Observers contend that a public teaching hospital is far more needed than a private hospital, particularly as a means of fostering …
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