Through years of expert clinical care, physicians have identified and implemented five strategies to help improve patient flow and care quality. With increased pressure on hospitals to streamline ...

Carilion Clinic has managed its stretched hospital bed capacity with a command center and post-acute referral hub. Carilion Clinic has mastered the intricacies of operating a command center and ...

The Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has criticised patient flow in some regional hospitals, saying that it must be improved to combat overcrowding.

At Baptist Health, our mission has always been to deliver high-quality care to the communities we serve throughout Arkansas. With a network of hospitals and care facilities across the state, we are ...

If the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is upheld, hospitals could face a huge influx of newly insured individuals seeking services. If this happens, hospitals will need to be prepared to ...

Despite many hospital's efforts to reduce readmissions, penalties for excessive readmissions reached an all-time high this year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid will levy fines to 2,610 hospitals ...

The comprehensiveness of its approach is noteworthy, as are its implications for hospitalists and for other hospitals. "This is about taking non-value-added steps out of the process and getting rid of ...

Although health systems have seen some much-needed improvement to operating margins in recent quarters, these positive headlines mask a disturbing reality that illustrates the immense challenges most ...

Fayette Plastic Surgery Center Clinical Director Kristin Nation and ASC Co-Owner Edward Gronka, MD, discuss eight ways their surgery center keeps a smooth patient flow. 1. Do prep work early. There ...

Traditionally, health systems have operated and behaved as unified entities in name only, with different hospitals and facilities within the same system working off of their own sets of key ...

Appointment schedules should reflect physicians' work style and patient demands. One of the major mistakes many physicians make is thinking patient flow problems happen because of major time-consuming ...