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About 1 in 5 private-sector employees in the Pittsburgh area today works at a hospital, a doctor's office or in some other health services business. But even as the healthcare boom has sped up Pittsburgh's recovery, the economic transformation has left many people worried about the side effects.
California Governor Jerry Brown on Monday unveiled a revised state budget plan that calls for new cuts to healthcare for the poor and elderly and reduced work hours for state employees as part of an effort to close a $15.7 billion budget gap.
The biggest losers may be the Obama Administration and the many people who would have received healthcare. The winners? Small businesses, doctors, the wealthy and big companies.
The studies show a correlation between readmission rates and how full the hospital was at the time of discharge, suggesting that patients went home before they were healthy enough.
Among patients who do not receive invasive procedures, the cost of hospitalization for heart-failure patients is higher in more procedure-intense hospitals than it is in hospitals that perform fewer procedures
The Meadows Regional Medical Center CEO said few people received outpatient services from the health system until it renovated a 60,000-square-foot abandoned warehouse into a wellness center and physical therapy practice with a state-of-the-art gym, a therapy pool, assessment rooms, classrooms and more. The project cost $500,000 and resulted in 2,200 paying gym members.
One pernicious category of imaginary risks involves those created by users of the dreaded "slippery slope" arguments. They are creeping into an arena that should be above this sort of thing: the Supreme Court, in its deliberations on health care reform.
Clinical decision-support systems offer great opportunities to improve care and reduce costs, but healthcare leaders have to remember who's ultimately in charge: the human operating the computer.
Aside from a patient, perhaps no element of a hospital system is as in need of emergency care as the emergency department itself. Health systems know this and are imposing fast-track, split-care programs to improve patient flow and decrease wait times.
As baby boomers age, the need for nurses will increase. Even though the number of licensed registered nurses in the United States has grown from 1.7 million in 1980 to 3.1 million today, the total is not enough to meet the expected demand.
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