Patients who are discharged after vascular surgeries to treat a wide range of ailments involving heart and blood flow issues are far more likely to be readmitted to the hospital for a preventable ...

Patients who have had vascular surgeries are often readmitted to the hospital for a variety of reasons — often preventable — more often than patients who undergo different types of surgeries. These ...

Throughout her career, Lori Popejoy provided hands-on clinical care in a variety of health care settings, from hospitals and nursing homes to community centers and home health care agencies. She ...

After hip fracture surgery, a patient is stabilized but is given only hours to choose a rehabilitation facility before discharge. In the days after Thanksgiving in 2022, my sister’s health care ...

A ten-bed discharge lounge has been established at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital to ease pressure on the Emergency Department and reduce the need for bed boarding. The move, which was promised ...

Integrating an elderly patient’s informal caregivers — family members, friends, partners, neighbors and other loved ones — into the discharge process may potentially reduce the patient’s likelihood of ...

“I didn’t know what to do, so I came back,” said my in-the-dark patient. He was calling me from the emergency department (ED), 5 days after I had discharged him from the hospital for an abdominal ...

A hospital stay can be stressful for both patients and their families. For many Medicare beneficiaries, the situation becomes even more concerning when a hospital announces a discharge before the ...