It’s a confusing situation for patients and a financially necessary one for hospitals: If a hospital cannot decide whether a patient is appropriate for inpatient admission, the patient can be kept up ...

Research published in Health Affairs suggests increased use of hospital observation units could help save $3.1 billion in healthcare costs each year. A hospital observation unit is a dedicated space ...

Like most health systems across the United States, Pinehurst, North Carolina-based FirstHealth of the Carolinas has challenges with bed capacity and is always working on new and innovative ways to ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- Using a special care team and dedicated space can help reduce the amount of time patients spend in the observation ward, experts said here. Diannette Figueroa, clinical performance process ...

Many kids are spending needless hours under hospital observation following an allergic reaction About 17% of kids are admitted for overnight observation But 95% could be safely discharged within two ...

Cook County Health has opened an 11-bed observation unit at Provident Hospital to provide more appropriate care for patients who arrive at the South Side hospital's emergency department. Patients who ...

If you're on Medicare and you're in the hospital for a few days, you may think you're an inpatient. The hospital may have other ideas. Increasingly, hospitals are placing older patients on ...

Endeavor Health has proposed a $100.8 million project to expand Elmhurst Hospital’s cancer center, add more surgical space and create a dedicated observation unit for patients requiring short-term ...

We assessed the proportion of Urgent Care Center visits that resulted in an admission to the hospital at a comprehensive cancer center, before (July 9, 2012–December 31, 2012) versus after (July 9, ...