Patient flow is affected by numerous factors, including available supply, patient volume, efficient practices and staffing. Therefore, patient flow issues at hospitals can arise in many forms, such as ...

Through years of expert clinical care, physicians have identified and implemented five strategies to help improve patient flow and care quality. With increased pressure on hospitals to streamline ...

Despite many hospital's efforts to reduce readmissions, penalties for excessive readmissions reached an all-time high this year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid will levy fines to 2,610 hospitals ...

When she noticed RNs weren't always able to make patient discharge a top priority, Baptist Health Lexington's CNO created a new nursing position to improve the discharge process. The result has been a ...

At Baptist Health, our mission has always been to deliver high-quality care to the communities we serve throughout Arkansas. With a network of hospitals and care facilities across the state, we are ...

Appointment schedules should reflect physicians' work style and patient demands. One of the major mistakes many physicians make is thinking patient flow problems happen because of major time-consuming ...

The layout of your medical practice can have an enormous effect on patient flow. Whether you’re starting a practice from scratch or considering a remodel, make a patient-friendly layout a priority.

It may not match the scale of the exodus of nurses from the healthcare workforce, but a growing shortage of physicians is no less of a threat to patient care. A recent survey found that one in five ...

The healthcare industry has experienced an explosion in data volume in recent years, leaving some providers wondering how to realize the full value of this information to improve clinical, operational ...

At King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC) in Riyadh, managing emergency department congestion has become a system-wide operational priority rather than a localized clinical ...

Traditionally, health systems have operated and behaved as unified entities in name only, with different hospitals and facilities within the same system working off of their own sets of key ...

A 33-year-old Caucasian woman presents to a community hospital with fever and cough; she is very short of breath, and explains that her symptoms have worsened progressively over the past 24 hours. She ...