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The fee-for-service model is hurting hospitals across the country - here's what Maryland is doing differently

Business Insider 04 Nov 2021
COVID has revealed the deeper vulnerabilities of the fee-for-service hospital model ... The state uses a data-determined annual budget for each hospital instead of fee-for-service pricing. This innovative approach could be the answer to rescuing struggling hospitals nationwide. The way the United States typically finances hospitals isn't working.
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Patients Went Into the Hospital for Care. After Testing Positive There for Covid, Some Never ...

Kentucky New Era 04 Nov 2021
They went into hospitals with heart attacks, kidney failure or in a psychiatric crisis ... hospital last year after they were admitted for something else, according to federal and state records analyzed exclusively for KHN ... Yet in the scheme of things that can go wrong in a hospital, it is catastrophic ... 20 last year, a hospital inspection report shows.
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Colorado hospitals move to highest level of statewide transfer plan for first time during pandemic

Colorado Daily 04 Nov 2021
Tier 1 was similar to a “buddy system,” in which smaller hospitals were paired with hospital networks with more resources to coordinate transfers, said Cara Welch, spokeswoman for the Colorado Hospital Association ... Hospitalizations rose again Wednesday, with 1,280 people — the highest number since Dec.
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COVID hospitalizations fall as deaths spike in Wyoming

Billings Gazette 04 Nov 2021
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Wyoming has fallen steadily over the last two weeks, but officials say the virus is still very present in the state, and remains a threat ... She added, “People leave hospitals for one of three reasons ... Statewide, hospitalizations are ...
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Cattaraugus County wants to expand COVID monoclonal antibody treatments

Olean Times Herald 04 Nov 2021
The hospital reports 112 of the 123 hospital beds are occupied ... One at Bradford Regional Medical Center, one at Buffalo General Hospital, four in Brooks Hospital of Dunkirk; two in Bertrand Chaffee Hospital in Springville; one in Jones Memorial Hospital of Wellsville; one at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and one at Oishei Children’s Hospital.
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After lengthy battle with COVID, Council Bluffs couple tie the knot in hospital room

Lincoln Journal Star 04 Nov 2021
Nebraska's coronavirus cases and hospitalizations were up again last week, indicating that the delta surge that began over the summer has not yet lost its sting ... In the intensive care unit of Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs. Johnson, 28, ran his surprise wedding plan by hospital staff.
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Maintenance, service workers strike at WVa hospital

Observer-Reporter 04 Nov 2021
(AP) – Maintenance and service union workers at a West Virginia hospital went on strike Wednesday after their contract expired. About 1,000 members of the the Service Employees International Union District 1999 walked off the job at noon at Cabell Huntington Hospital, one of the largest employers in Huntington.
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B.C. lacks key data on COVID patients who end up back in hospital

Info News 04 Nov 2021
Thousands of British Columbians who were hospitalized due to COVID-19 are likely returning to the emergency room or even requiring readmission within a month after being released ... Seventeen per cent of previously hospitalized patients were readmitted to hospital within a month, Alberta Health Services told the Globe.
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We don’t recommend Ivermectin to treat Covid-19, says health DG WORLD – Malaysia Today Ambulances ...

Malaysia Today 04 Nov 2021
“They don’t even let us into the hospital with our patients, we’re expected to keep them in the back of the ambulance”, says one paramedic ... “They don’t even let us into the hospital with our patients, we’re expected to keep them in the back of the ambulance,” said the paramedic.
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Fremont Methodist Health celebrates administration of 500th COVID antibody treatment

Fremont Tribune 04 Nov 2021
"Giving this many doses to the community prevented some hospitalizations, and we already have problems with the surge of patients at this time and over this whole period of time," Dr ... "So it really lowered the pressure on the hospital and also prevented complications, deaths and hospitalizations with COVID.".
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China vows to shore up county-level hospitals

China.dot.org 04 Nov 2021
4 (Xinhua) -- China's National Health Commission has rolled out a work plan to improve the comprehensive capabilities of county-level hospitals.
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B'luru pvt hosps confused over Covaxin shelf life extension

The Times of India 04 Nov 2021
Private hospitals in Bengaluru confused over Covaxin shelf life extension ... But hospitals say potential vaccine seekers could reject doses since the labels would show old expiry dates ... Of the six lakh Covaxin doses with private hospitals, Apollo hospitals has stock of over four lakh.
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Private hospitals in Bengaluru confused over Covaxin shelf life extension

The Times of India 04 Nov 2021
A recent letter from Bharat Biotech to stakeholders saying it was extending the shelf life of Covaxin from the existing six months to a year has left hospitals in Bengaluru confused ... Of the six lakh Covaxin doses with private hospitals, Apollo hospitals has stock of over four lakh.
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Uninsured in South Would Win Big in Democrats’ Plan, but Hospitals Fear Funding Loss

Independent Record 04 Nov 2021
Those cuts have unsettled hospital industry officials, who worry that losing those special funds would mean less money to pay for services. “We always are in favor of coverage expansion,” said Beth Feldpush, senior vice president of America’s Essential Hospitals, which represents hospitals that treat many poor and uninsured patients.
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Hospital consultants call for increased recruitment to deal with waiting lists

RTE 04 Nov 2021
The Irish Hospital Consultants Association has said that almost 250,000 people are waiting for an outpatient appointment in Dublin hospitals as it called for efforts to recruit consultants to be stepped up. IHCA Vice President Dr Gabrielle Colleran said that the major Dublin hospitals have seen up to a 92% increase in waiting lists since 2015.
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