Community Benefit
A number of regional healthcare trends in California have been identified in new market studies of Sacramento and Riverside/San Bernardino conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) in Washington, D.C., and funded by the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF).
The Parkinson's Disease Foundation (PDF) last week awarded $1.35 million in research grants for 13 novel projects designed to find the cause(s) of and a cure for Parkinson's disease.
According to the authors of a new analysis published Wednesday in Health Affairs, there are three overlying lessons for state and federal healthcare policy makers to be learned from Massachusett's healthcare law experiences.
In its annual report on the country's hospitals, the Joint Commission announced Wednesday that 620 hospitals achieved outstanding performance.
A recently released health policy brief examining the efforts in the U.S. healthcare system to improve care transitions concludes that simple solutions would go a long way to improving patient care and saving costs.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has begun its second cycle of funding requests and is seeking applications. Up to $96 million for comparative effectiveness research is available.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), a global investments firm, and the American Heart Association (AHA) have recently teamed up to launch a new research collaboration to study how effective workplace wellness initiatives have been at KKR and four of its portfolio companies.
National health spending in July grew 4.2 percent relative to July 2011, up from the 3.9 percent growth rate experienced in June, according to the Health Sector Economic Indicators brief released recently by the Altarum Institute’s Center for Sustainable Health Spending.
On the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Go Direct campaign website is a countdown clock. It isn’t counting down to the end of the Mayan calendar. And although some older adults may view the clock as ticking down to the end of the world as they know it, the Treasury Department and leaders of the long-term care industry say the deadline it’s counting down to will begin a new era of increased efficiency and cost savings.
According to a new study published in the journal Critical Care Medicine, in the hours leading up to a serious complication, physicians and nurses may overestimate the quality of care given to their hospital patients.