In 2021, Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland created the intake hospitalist role, a dedicated position to oversee patient transfers. In the years since, the academic health center has seen ...

Patient transfers require an immense amount of time and energy. But in capacity-limited health systems, transfers are increasingly necessary. Timely and efficient patient transfers are key to ...

To improve patient-centered care provided to transfer patients, we should improve coordination between initial and receiving hospitals. The National Quality Forum and scholars increasingly emphasize ...

High-volume care centers are linked to lower mortality for mechanically ventilated patients, suggesting benefits of transferring to such facilities. Uninsured patients experience higher mortality and ...

One-hundred ninety-eight minutes. That’s, on average, how long it took Banner Health to accept patient transfers from outside facilities in 2018: more than three hours. A patient’s condition could ...

Redistributing patients from greater- to lesser-impacted hospitals—so-called “level-loading” demand for inpatient capacity—may help systems reduce strain where it is most jeopardizing. Traditional ...

William Newton Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital in Kansas that serves patients in Winfield, Cowley County and neighboring regions. The nonprofit community general hospital is locally ...

As Microsoft doubles down on the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) with a 2026 roadmap focused on developer experience and extensibility, healthcare IT teams are pivoting to MSAL2 patterns to bridge the gap ...

When the pain kicked in again in February, Lahisha Marquez-Soto held off on going to the hospital for days, until she was struggling to walk out of her college dorm in Carson. Eight days into her stay ...

More than 1,700 patients got transferred away from overwhelmed hospitals in New York during a health care capacity crunch last year, including some ill New Yorkers transported hundreds of miles from ...