Patients revisiting the hospital within 30 days of initial discharge increasingly receive care in emergency departments and observation stays, marking a shift that may reflect hospitals’ efforts to ...

— -- Sudden chest pains landed Diane Zachor in a Duluth, Minn., hospital overnight, but weeks later she had another shock — a $442 bill for the everyday drugs she also takes at home, including ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), which represents hospitalists, has called for the elimination of observation status in acute care hospitals. The society would replace it with a new low-acuity ...

Hospitals Increase Use of Observation Stays, Creating Coverage Issues for Medicare Patients Hospitals across the country are using observation stay classifications among Medicare patients with greater ...

NOBLESVILLE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Collette Health, a leading provider of continuous virtual patient observation solutions, today announced a new feature, Third Party Join, that allows members of the ...

If you find yourself in the emergency department and the doctor says he wants to keep you at the hospital for "observation," take heed. Depending on the hospital, observation can mean very different ...

The Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care provides a free, downloadable and adaptable card for patients to fill out when observing whether their healthcare providers are ...

Leaders at St. Luke’s University Health Network’s Monroe Campus failed to make sure a suicidal patient was properly watched, an investigation by the Pennsylvania Department of Health found. The report ...