Acute Care
Patients sometimes find an additional charge, generally between $30 and $200, tacked onto their bill for visiting overnight.
Patients experienced more than 3 million fewer of these adverse events during that period.
The high-need population is older, has lower levels of education and income and includes more women and African Americans.
Heater-cooler device linked to sometimes deadly bacterial infection; FDA under scrutiny for handling of information tied to safety.
Only 2.5 percent of psychiatric patients seen at transitional care clinic return to ER within three months.
49 percent say they "often or always" experience feelings of burnout, would not recommend a career in medicine to their children.
There were only 130 of them in 2006, but by 2012 there were 1,400 nationwide; third of population lives within 10 minutes of one.
Ranks of uninsured could swell by millions if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, hospitals must take steps to protect reimbursements, experts say.
Specially trained paramedics are dispatched to the scene, have learned to identify problems, intervene and de-escalate the situation.
iVantage exec says new administration could pay closer attention to the Save Rural Hospitals Act, a bill that was proposed in 2015 with bipartisan support.