The nation's largest integrated health delivery organization plans to expand its "Total Health" wellness mission to address unmet social needs for disadvantaged patients in order to close the gaps in U.S. healthcare outcomes between rich and poor
Kaiser initiative aims to meet social needs of 'superusers'
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CMS launches multi-pronged attack on care disparities
In March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled a new tool aimed at tracking racial health disparities among Medicare patients, but the tool is only part of the agency's broader push to address care disparities among different racial groups, genders and socioeconomic classes, a CMS official told Hospitals & Health Networks.
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Zika fears escalate: Virus is scarier than previously thought, CDC says
The Zika virus is far more damaging and scarier than previously thought. This week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed long-held suspicions that the virus causes microcephaly in infants as well as other major brain-related birth defects, a discovery officials called a "turning point" in a scientific understanding of the disease.
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Mixed news for first year of Medicare Shared Savings Program
It's been a bumpy road for Medicare Accountable Care Organizations, with only 97 of 353 Pioneer and Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs earning performance bonuses in 2014, and new data show the MSSP achieved mixed results its first year, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Hospital execs: ACA, population health will be game changers in next three years
C-suite leaders predict in the next three years that high-value post-acute care networks and innovative approaches to care delivery will be their most important areas of focus, according to Premier Inc.'s spring Economic Outlook.
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How one healthcare system embraced the industry's 'third era'
Guest post by Barry Ronan, president and CEO of Western Maryland Health System in Cumberland, Maryland When I was asked if I would blog about pushing the healthcare industry into a new era, I agreed...
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Stress, burnout hinder nurse performance
Nurses face some of the highest levels of work-related depression, stress and burnout of any profession. It may help to reduce that stress if hospitals rethink how nurses and staff fit into the healthcare chain of command while making the organizations better and more profitable places to work, according to National Public Radio.
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Zika: Congressional gridlock may hobble public health efforts
Despite warnings for months that the United States must prepare for a potential outbreak of the Zika virus, officials have made little progress, according to a commentary published in JAMA the same day officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted that the virus was "scarier than we initially thought."
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Opioid crisis: Boston hospital ramps up efforts to help fight epidemic
Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital is ramping up efforts to save lives of drug users, who have been shooting up in the hospital's bathrooms and parking garages, the Boston Herald reports.
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Superbug-contaminated scopes affect more than previous estimates
The number of patients sickened by endoscopes carrying carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae between 2010 and 2015 is much higher than the Food and Drug Administration previously reported, according to the results of a Congressional investigation obtained by Kaiser Health News.
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VA wait time scandal: How agency resolved 56,000 cases of delayed care in one day
The Department of Veterans Affairs has resolved most of the 56,000 cases of patients who waited too long for care by shutting down operations for a day to focus on those cases, according to a case study published by the NEJM Catalyst.
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Quality improvement intervention with checklists failed to cut ICU mortality
Daily checklists and other aspects of a quality improvement intervention failed to reduce deaths among critically ill patients in intensive care units, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found.
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ERs struggle to divert psychiatric patients
Lack of support for mental health continues to adversely affect hospitals, with Minnesota emergency departments increasingly forced to act as holding cells for patients who pose a threat to both healthcare workers and other patients, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Drug-resistant superbugs could become deadlier than cancer
Superbugs are on track to kill 10 million people a year by 2050--more than those who die from cancer, warned UK Chancellor George Osborne, who urged for global and radical action to fight the threat from bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics.
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Mental health treatment, diagnosis varies by race
Mental health treatment and diagnoses vary significantly by race and ethnicity, according to a new study published in Psychiatric Services.
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EPA prepares for Zika; Wisconsin nurses don't take advantage of addiction options;
News From Around the Web> The Environmental Protection Agency is taking steps to prepare for an outbreak of the Zika virus, such as analyzing the potential effect of heavier-duty pesticides for...
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Non-urgent ER visits: Some patients still receive diagnostic services, admission
Although triage services in emergency departments are meant to prioritize care to the sickest patients, a new study finds that in some cases, patients identified as non-urgent receive diagnostic services and procedures, and are even admitted to critical care units.
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Feds solicit research to eliminate disparities in surgical access, outcomes
Research proposals to unlock why racial and ethnic minorities, as well as low-income patients, have consistently poorer surgical outcomes, could be eligible for grant funding from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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Zika virus: Small local outbreaks likely in the U.S. soon, CDC official warns
As a top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official warns that Zika outbreaks in the continental U.S. were likely this summer, congressional Democrats are pressuring Republican leadership to authorize $1.8 billion in Zika funding requested by the White House two months ago.
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VA scandal: Average wait times up to 71 days for care
Two years after a nationwide scandal prompte
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