Scene one: A patient enters the hospital either for a scheduled procedure or via the emergency department. They were admitted, treated while receiving leading patient care and sent on their way after ...

As hospitalists…we see patients throughout the day, in different situations, and often end up spending more time with them ...

Behavioral health tracking company Ginger.io has announced a collaborative for tracking patient behavior and health outcomes with six academic medical centers, including UC San Francisco, Boston-based ...

Seclusion is a protocol used in hospital settings when a patient is displaying unsafe behaviors. Many organizations, including U.S. health care accrediting body the Joint Commission, say that it ...

Leaders at a South Jersey hospital are planning a big change in treating people with mental and behavioral health crises.

Any ICU is a highly specialized environment designed to provide critical care for patients facing life-threatening illnesses or injuries. While primary focus within the ICU is typically physiologic ...

Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital has achieved a Utah medical milestone – one that directly benefits children and ...

North Alabama Shoals Hospital has received approval to add two more adult inpatient behavioral health beds, bringing the ...

Even as the medical care needed to treat patients with well-controlled HIV has been significantly streamlined, complex ...

A patient-led process for comparing actual bills to data reported under the hospital price transparency rule would help the ...

Margo Smith refused to go home because she needed a special bed. Oct. 22, 2013— -- A Connecticut hospital had to go to court to evict a patient who refused to leave the facility in a fight over a ...

Kindred Hospital Dayton has reopened its inpatient behavioral health unit under new leadership and with a new staff, tripling the number of inpatients in three weeks. Hospital CEO Reginald Lee said ...