Nobody wants to stay in hospital any longer than they need to. So what happens when at the end of your medical care you are unable to be discharged?
This is a situation known officially as a “delayed discharge” and better known as “bed blocking”.
Officially this happens whe
Chattanooga police say that a man and woman were both shot early Thursday morning in the 4900 block of Lavender Trail.
The man, 22 years old, and the woman, 26 years-old, were in bed when they were shot, according to police. The suspect entered the home about 1:30am and shot them, accord
By Katy Lewis BBC News, East
When the remains of a 15th Century abbot were carried to their final resting place in St Albans Cathedral on Saturday, five years after he was found in an unmarked grave, it begged the question, how exactly do you recommit the body of a Benedictine Abbot so
At 30 years old, I sat coloring in bed. It was all I could do.
Deep blues, daffodil yellows and emerald greens filled the ink-stained outlines in my coloring book. I strained to stay in the lines as my world spun on a perpetual leftward tilt. It was early February 2021 in North Carolina,
“We see the hospital as a factory and our hospitalist group as an assembly line that is in the business of manufacturing perfect discharges.”1 These words are not hyperbole. They are the exact words written by David J. Yu, MD, MBA, Medicare & DSNP Medical Director, Presbyterian Health
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Harborview Medical Center will temporarily stop accepting less-acute patients and instead divert them to other health care systems in the area — reflecting a “very difficult decision” as capacity challenges worsen, the hospital’s CEO announced Thursday afternoon.
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Oregon hospitals face an escalating crisis with hundreds of patients ready for discharge but nowhere to send them.
State officials and the health care industry are at the table and scrambling to find solutions. For example, Salem Hospital diverted ambulances from its emergency rooms. E
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