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‘Failing Patients’: Baltimore Video Highlights Crisis Of Emergency Psychiatric Care
by Merrit Kennedy April 29, 2018Enlarge this image Cheryl Chandler says she happened to click on a viral video showing a woman wearing a hospital gown, not…
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Enlarge this image Ogechi Ukachu, one of the registered nurses recently hired to help staff D.C.’s “Right Care Right Now” program, takes…
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Medicare Advisers Recommend Payment Cuts To Many Free-Standing ERs
by Michelle Andrews April 17, 2018Enlarge this image Free-standing ERs tend to have lower standby costs than hospital-based facilities that have to be ready to treat dire…
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Patients Like Hospital Care At Home, But Some Insurers Are Skeptical
by Michelle Andrews March 7, 2018Enlarge this image As a “hospital-at-home” patient, Phyllis Petruzzelli was visited twice a day by doctors and nurses who were able to…
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Enlarge this image Emergency rooms are seeing a jump in opioid overdoses. Timely treatment with naloxone can reverse the effects of opioids.…
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Rethinking Rural Health Solutions To Save Patients And Communities
by Adrienne St. Clair February 28, 2018Enlarge this image Getting health care to rural areas may involve tough decisions about the role of hospitals. hmproudlove/Getty Images hide caption…
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Enlarge this image Ashley Copeland (right) talks to her mom Sue Iverson in the Swedish Medical Center emergency department, near Denver. Copeland…