The Oregon State Hospital must make additional safety improvements to the way it transports patients or risk losing a large chunk of its federal funding, according to the Oregon Health Authority. The ...

The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services provides a free, downloadable and interactive (fillable) model form for to facilitate information sharing when individuals move between hospitals ...

Patients’ insurance coverage and gender may influence the likelihood of a hospital transferring them to another acute-care facility, according to a study from the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with no insurance, Medicare or Medicaid vs. commercial insurance were significantly less likely to ...

Santa Barbara County Public Health Director Mouhanad Hammami, seen addressing the Board of Supervisors in early October, informed the board on Tuesday that his department has halted its plans of ...

When patients stabilize enough to leave the ICU, the transition should represent progress. Instead, it often marks the beginning of a new set of risks. Research shows that in some patient cohorts, 1 ...