The design of the healthcare environment is under attack again — this time by a couple of academics that studied whether improving the patient experience has any impact on readmission rates. In
Read more >At 97, my mother has partial dementia. A few weeks ago, she was admitted to the hospital because she had what looked like, but proved not to be a stroke.
Read more >Since Florence Nightingale established nursing as a profession with its own standards of practice in the 1800s, nursing has continued to mature and push for improving the quality of care for patients.
Read more >Having just attended the National Rural Hospital Association’s Critical Access Hospital conference in Kansas City, I’m still moved by what I didn’t know, the challenges to the healthcare organizations that care for our
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