Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that protects the public health, approved an expanded indication for several transcatheter heart valves to include patients with severe aortic valve stenosis (Sapien 3, Sapien 3 Ultra, CoreValve Evolut R and CoreValve Evolut PRO) at low surgical risk …
Last year, researchers reported that long-term care hospitals (LTCH) provide superior outcomes for the most severely ill patients than any other post-acute care setting “Post-acute care plays a significant role in our health care system,” explains George Kyriacou, MSPH, president and CEO of Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford, Conn, during a September 2018 presentation of a …
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Researchers taking a look at hospital-based rehabilitation programs found that not all rehabilitation is equal for acute care hospital patients with ischemic stroke. According to research findings published in the May 2019 issue of Physical Therapy, the researchers found “significant variation” in the use of hospital-based rehabilitation services that “suggest a timely opportunity to standardize rehabilitation …
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A recent federal study says patient safety in hospitals continues to improve due to a decrease in hospital-acquired conditions The new data released by the Rockville, Maryland-based and centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, Maryland, show that reductions in hospital-acquired conditions (such as adverse drug events and healthcare-associated infections) helped to prevent …
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The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will have sufficient funds to pay full benefits until 2026, according to the latest annual report from the Medicare Board of Trustees. That’s unchanged from last year’s report, which projected that the Medicare trust fund would become insolvent three years earlier than they previously expected – in part because …
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In today’s health care system, severely ill seniors are admitted to acute care hospitals for inpatient services for a relatively short stay. Long-Term Acute Care hospitals (LTACHs) fill the niche for those who require a longer hospital stay. The New Jersey-based Specialty Hospital of Central New Jersey is one of 400 LTACHs in the United …
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