Katrina McGibbon developed alcohol and drug problems in her 30s, but felt her recovery was impeded by the lack of a local, ...

Quality playbook systems preparing for outpatient procedure expansion focus on protocols, outcomes tracking, and staff readiness amid CMS rule changes.

ED boarding has become a widespread and chronic issue exacerbated by factors such as reduced inpatient capacity, staffing ...

The Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU fulfilled a longtime dream when they opened the Children’s Tower, a dedicated ...

As part of Healthcare Design magazine’s 25th anniversary, we invited industry leaders to reflect on some of the key milestones that have shaped modern healthcare facilities. Here, Catherine Gow, ...

Ambience Healthcare rolled out an ICD-10 clinical document integrity assistant for inpatient care, aiming to help hospitalists document more accurate clinical notes and reduce billing and coding ...

I have written about pre-enlightenment views of mental illness, particularly in reference to “lunatics” who were suicidal and institutionalized accordingly (Jobes & Chalker, 2019). In recent years, ...

Daniel Lawrence is affiliated with the Labour Party. Restrictive practices in mental health settings – such as physical restraint and seclusion – are meant to be a last resort, used only when patients ...

Research shows that patient violence spans care settings, starting in the out-of-hospital setting, continuing in the ED, and persisting into inpatient units. More than a quarter of patients who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inpatient immune checkpoint inhibitor use yielded median survival of only 1.5 months. Researchers emphasized the ...

Introduction The physical health of individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) is a cause for concern. While the purpose of inpatient mental health settings is rehabilitation and treatment, the ...