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 ...

The home-based care model offers a promising strategy for improving quality of care, while also reducing health care spending. “In this study, we show that enrolling HNHC patients with cardiovascular ...

An innovative concept that started in urban centers is making its way into the heart of rural America: hospital-at-home (H@H) care. The idea stemmed from the realization that patients in rural areas ...

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 ...

While most home hospital programs have so far been implemented in urban areas, a rural home hospital model, or RHH, has successfully delivered hospital-level care to patients living in rural areas ...

The proposed alternative payment model for hospital nursing would eliminate the incentive for hospitals to decrease spending on nursing year over year. Since the introduction of the Triple Aim by the ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated after publication with reaction comments from hospital industry associations. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a 2.4% payment rate ...