The state has reached a settlement with Westchester Medical Center over the hospital system’s failure to follow discharge ...

Inadequate coordination of patient discharges was named among the top 10 threats to patient safety in 2025, according to a recent report from ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices. Gaps ...

Three major hospitals in the Hudson Valley have been slammed for putting psychiatric patients at risk by prematurely ...

On a rainy day in January, a bus dropped off brain-injury patient Chester Duhamell in a wheelchair outside a Las Vegas homeless shelter following his discharge from Desert Springs Hospital Medical ...

Patients discharged AMA have longer eventual hospital stays and worse health outcomes. These patients are also less likely to have an established relationship with a physician, tend to have poorer ...

But they add up for a hospital system that’s treating hundreds of patients each day. The center’s first initiative was to streamline the process for discharging patients, from the ER to the ...

Patients given transitional care before and during discharge from hospital – such as joint discharge planning follow up visits or phone calls - are less likely to be readmitted according to University ...

Investigators found the hospital failed to meet requirements for completing patients' death certificates within 15 hours, making sufficient attempts to notify family, and writing discharge ...

Over the past decade, Government investment in healthcare has risen from €12.2 billion to €26.9 billion. Taxpayers, legislators and healthcare professionals alike want to see this increased ...

A t-shirt that monitors a patient’s vitals after urological ... more data is needed on its ability to support earlier discharge from hospital, and its true impact on outcomes and cost ...