Following discharge after coronary artery bypass graft, there is high variability of skilled nursing facility use among different hospitals. Among different hospitals, there is high variability of ...

Crafting an effective discharge plan doesn’t have to be an uphill battle for skilled nursing facilities if their teams commit to working together to individualize each plan in a way that considers the ...

A Catholic hospital system is suing patients who refused to leave its hospitals while awaiting post-acute placements, saying their refusal to be discharged amounted to trespassing. The unusual legal ...

Despite recent technological advancements, clinicians still struggle to coordinate with their peers outside of a hospital’s four walls. This challenge poses a particular barrier when discharging ...

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement program was associated with improved quality of skilled nursing facilities in hospital referral networks for patients undergoing surgery for joint replacement ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients discharged to home health care after total hip arthroplasty had 90-day readmissions of 4.9% vs. 12.6% ...

For many years, hospital social workers and discharge planners have had few tools at their disposal to determine the relative quality of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) when seeking to assist a ...

Phillip Esformes, the alleged mastermind of one of "the largest single criminal health care fraud cases ever brought against individuals by the Department of Justice," [1] has finally reached a plea ...