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Fewer Patient Admissions a Symptom of Healthcare 'Transformation,' Study Says
Figures from 2010 show that 71 Chicago-area hospitals covering seven counties discharged about 1.02 million patients; by 2012, that number had dropped about 5 percent, to 970,000 discharges, according to the January report.
In announcing its plan Thursday to sell Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center to a new buyer, Presence Health cited financial challenges in part due to fewer people being admitted to the Catholic hospital.
That certainly isn’t a problem unique to Our Lady of the Resurrection. Patient admissions are down across the region, according to an online report by the journal Health Affairs, part of what the report cites as a “transformation” in health care.
Figures from 2010 show that 71 Chicago-area hospitals covering seven counties discharged about 1.02 million patients; by 2012, that number had dropped about 5 percent, to 970,000 discharges, according to the January report.
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Source: Chicago Sun Times
Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman
December 19th 2023Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.
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