Sub-acute hospital owner sets sights to open this winter

When Adela Butler’s mother suffered a stroke 10 years ago and lost all ability to care for herself, it changed the way of life for her entire family.

More Than A Quarter Of All Acute Care Visits In US Now Made To Emergency Departments

Only 45 percent of the 354 million annual visits for acute care in the United States are made to patients' personal physicians, as Americans increasingly make busy emergency departments, specialists or outpatient care departments their first point of contact for treatment of new health problems or a flare up of a chronic condition like asthma or diabetes. The findings, which appear in the ...

Research Roundup: Shifting ER visits to urgent care centers; Evaluating doctors; Medicare Advantage quality ratings

Health Affairs: Many Emergency Department Visits Could Be Managed At Urgent Care Centers And Retail Clinics - Researchers analyzed samples of patient records and found "13.7 percent of all emergency department visits could take place at a retail clinic" - 7.9 percent when hours are restricted - and "an additional 13.4 percent of emergency department visits could take place at a urgent care ...

Cumberland Medical Center under investigation for sex assault claims

Cumberland Medical Center has been under investigation because of its handling of at least one sexual assault complaint.

Medical center grant helps fund low-income clinic

On Wednesday, the Plano Children’s Medical Clinic at 1407 14th St. was awarded a two-year grant totaling $90,000 from The Medical Center of Plano.

Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II Acquires Joplin Long-Term Acute Care Hospital in Missouri

JOPLIN, Mo., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Joplin Long-Term Acute Care Hospital, a single-story, 26,000-square-foot, Class A single-tenant medical facility in Joplin. The acquisition closed on Aug. 31. Located at 2040 W. 32nd St., at the heart of the "Four State Area" where Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas ...

Several Inflammatory Factors Induced By Bacterial Infection May Be Reduced By Insulin

Treating intensive care patients who develop life-threatening bacterial infections, or septicemia, with insulin potentially could reduce their chances of succumbing to the infection, if results of a new preliminary study can be replicated in a larger study. A paper published online ahead of print in Diabetes Care reports that insulin lowered the amount of inflammation and oxidative stress in ...