A new set of guidelines offers key strategies to ensure that hospital and health system partnerships with other providers are effective at improving care across the continuum. Healthcare improvement ...

Eleven states plan post-acute initiatives using CMS Rural Health Transformation Program funding to improve care coordination ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment in Dr. Smythe’s four-part series on fostering healthcare innovation to face some of the biggest challenges fronting healthcare today. This post focuses on ...

A research brief out of think tank Urban Institute evaluates the prospect of reducing Medicare spending by reining in excessive post-acute care rates. Right now, there are different payment structures ...

It’s a familiar quandary — one that healthcare organizations have faced for as long as hospitals have existed. Once a patient is ready for discharge, where does she go next to receive the most ...

New data shows that Medicare Advantage beneficiaries generally use fewer post-acute care services than enrollees in fee-for-service Medicare, and also experience worse outcomes. For that reason and ...

WOODBURY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spring Hills, an innovative leader in post-acute care, senior living and home care with 35 locations across seven states, has established Spring Hills Post Acute ...

Healthcare is becoming longitudinal instead of episodic. Post-acute and "pre-acute" care is where the money will increasingly be spent in healthcare. Provider organizations focusing on only one cog of ...

Increasing costs and supply chain issues influenced by the pandemic are persisting issues. KLAS Research, a healthcare IT data and insights company, recently released its 2022 facility-based ...

This article is sponsored by TeamHealth. In this Voices interview, Skilled Nursing News sits down with Jessica Stone, Regional Clinical Director of ...

LIVINGSTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spring Hills, an innovative leader in post-acute care, senior living and home care with 35 locations across seven states, has established Spring Hills Post Acute ...

Fewer Medicare Advantage enrollees report using post-acute care services than traditional Medicare beneficiaries. But even when they do use them, a new study finds that those MA patients report more ...