STAT

JULY 19, 2024

The first time I saw Maya (not her real name) huddled under blankets in a hospital bed in 2013, she had been to dozens of inpatient detox programs and residential treatment centers since she had begun using heroin two decades earlier. After every release, she returned to heroin use, usually within days.

Inpatient 353

Inpatient Hospitals 353

STAT

OCTOBER 3, 2024

This week Medicare regulators released a 79-page report on a pandemic-era home hospital program that allowed approved health systems to deliver inpatient care in people’s homes.   Sign up to get it  delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.

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Hospitals Inpatient 319

STAT

OCTOBER 17, 2024

UnitedHealth Group, Humana, and CVS Health targeted denials among older adults who were requesting care in nursing homes, inpatient rehab hospitals, and long-term hospitals.

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Nursing Homes Inpatient Hospitals 363

STAT

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“We have seen a further slight uptick in the inpatient side related to Covid,” Humana CFO Susan Diamond said Wednesday at a conference held by Wells Fargo. But it didn’t expect the uptick to come during the waning summer months.

Hospitals 351

Hospitals Inpatient 351

STAT

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s a complex procedure with a lot of serious side effects that must be closely monitored, so it’s typically provided at hospitals in the inpatient setting, sometimes outpatient, and almost never in doctor offices. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Inpatient Hospitals 324

STAT

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Clinical floors will be designed to accommodate inpatient recovery, surgery, and imaging technology, services typically spread across multiple floors. “It blurs the lines between digital and physical,” Mayo’s chief executive, Gianrico Farrugia, told STAT.

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Mayo Clinic Inpatient Hospitals 364

STAT

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Starting this year, private Medicare plans have to cover their members’ hospitalizations at the higher inpatient rate if their doctors predict they’ll have to stay beyond two midnights. It’s the same rule — appropriately called the two-midnight rule — that traditional Medicare has followed for a decade.

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Hospitals Inpatient 333

STAT

JUNE 5, 2024

The FTC sued to block the deal in January, arguing that it would give Novant control of more than 65% of the region’s inpatient market. A federal judge ordered Wednesday that Novant Health can move forward with its plan to buy two North Carolina hospitals, denying the Federal Trade Commission’s request for an injunction.

Hospitals 304

Hospitals Inpatient 304

STAT

JUNE 26, 2023

Dulaney spent two nights in a behavioral health emergency room before being sent to a general inpatient unit that had both men and women in Greensboro, N.C. Soon after, she began to quote scripture, grabbed her kids, and begged God to save them all. Then she passed out, and her husband called 911.

Inpatient 281

Inpatient 281

STAT

JANUARY 25, 2024

The federal government is suing to block a proposed hospital deal in North Carolina, alleging it would hand control of over 65% of the inpatient market in the region to a single provider.

Hospitals 319

Hospitals Inpatient 319

STAT

DECEMBER 12, 2024

” This new mandate directs hospitals to gather data on the costs of inpatient and emergency care for patients without legal status. Beginning Nov. 1, 2024, however, hospitals across Texas are required to ask each patient the question: “Are you a U.S. It turns a place of refuge into a checkpoint.

Hospitals 297

Hospitals Inpatient 297

STAT

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The plan gained national renown among employers and health care price reform advocates when, in 2016, it established maximum amounts the health plan would pay for all inpatient and outpatient services. Those amounts were pegged to Medicare reimbursement rates.

Hospitals 260

Hospitals Inpatient 260

Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Cardioprotective antihyperglycemic agents are underutilized for inpatient care in heart failure patients. Lack of use can lead to preventable patient deaths and hospital readmissions.

Inpatient 12

Inpatient Hospitals 12

STAT

MAY 20, 2024

What HHS proposed for addressing the climate crisis is a regulatory illusion intended to accomplish nothing.

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Hospitals Inpatient 281

STAT

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

These facilities will run emergency rooms, but not inpatient care. That’s according to Medicare’s final rule laying out the parameters for so-called Rural Emergency Hospitals, a designation that takes effect Jan. 1, 2023 for facilities that opt in. billion annually. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

Hospitals 226

Hospitals Inpatient 226

STAT

MARCH 13, 2023

When NaviHealth began building a business around using algorithms to scrutinize the care of older patients a decade ago, one of the country’s largest chains of inpatient rehab and long-term care hospitals was among the first to invest.

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Health Insurance Companies Inpatient Hospitals 246

Pharmacy Joe

JULY 8, 2023

In this episode, I’ll discuss three tips for inpatient medical emergencies. To get a copy of 6 more tips for pharmacists responding to inpatient medical emergencies, go to my free download area. Sodium bicarbonate is compatible with fentanyl, propofol, dexmedetomidine, phenylephrine, and vasopressin. It’s number 16 on the list.

Inpatient 59

Inpatient 59

STAT

JANUARY 17, 2023

billion of annual revenue and controls large swaths of the state’s inpatient and outpatient services. “Growth is really important to us,” said Rob McMurray, CFO of ChristianaCare, a hospital system headquartered in Delaware that has $2.6 Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

Hospitals 208

Hospitals Inpatient 208

STAT

AUGUST 8, 2023

On inpatient medical services, it’s common to hear patients’ laboratory results presented with statements sounding like “CALCE-MAG-FOSS were normal.” ” The efficiency of this reporting is part of the secret handshake of one insider communicating with another.

Inpatient 244

Inpatient Communication Hospitals 244

EMCrit Project

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Consequently, a single person will often be responsible for both inpatient ICU management as well as inpatient pulmonary consultation. In many countries, pulmonary and critical care are commonly bundled together. Honestly, I have some doubts about whether this is an ideal system.

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Hospitals Inpatient 140

STAT

JULY 20, 2023

On an August Thursday in 2021, deep into the pandemic, two Massachusetts General Hospital doctors stood gowned, gloved, bootied up and ready in a retrofitted lounge on the 21st floor of Phillips House,  a 20-single-room, inpatient area with sweeping views of Boston, the Charles River and neighboring Cambridge. Just after 3 p.m.

Inpatient 189

Inpatient Hospitals 189

STAT

AUGUST 9, 2023

My first exposure to pharmaceutical shortages happened in 2017 as a new-to-practice nurse working on an inpatient oncology unit. A hurricane in Puerto Rico had left the U.S. short of sodium chloride minibags.

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Chemotherapy Inpatient 245

RX Note

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

However, a significant number of dedicated pharmacists work diligently in inpatient settings, ensuring accurate medication dispensing to hospitalized patients. Having transitioned from outpatient to inpatient pharmacy, I personally prefer the latter due to its reduced patient-related stress. mcg/kg/hour?

Inpatient 40

Inpatient Medication Dispensing Patient Counseling Community Pharmacies 40

Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

High COVID-19 hospital caseload strain led to increases in inpatient adverse events among patients both with and without SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 11, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss the association between number of learners trained per year and rates of burnout among inpatient pharmacists. Episode 903: Does the Number of Learners Trained Per Year Influence the Chances of an Inpatient Pharmacist Experiencing Burning Out?

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Pharmacy Technician Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 11, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss the association between number of learners trained per year and rates of burnout among inpatient pharmacists. The majority of survey participants worked in ambulatory care, with about one-fourth working an inpatient role and one-seventh working an infrastructure role.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Pharmacy Technician Hospitals 52

pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CAR-T therapies can achieve remarkable efficacy in the treatment of haematological cancers, but the risk of side effects means that the cell infusions are almost always administered to inpatients under close supervision in clinics.

Inpatient 119

Inpatient 119

Pharmacy Joe

MAY 1, 2024

A 50 y/o male with an SSTI had an unknown allergy to penicillin, received a single dose of ceftriaxone in the ED and was then switched to piperacillin-tazobactam as an inpatient. He experienced a rash to the piperacillin-tazobactam as an inpatient. She experienced a rash to the nafcillin as an inpatient.

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Inpatient Medical Records Documentation Labelling 98

Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The authors concluded: On average, among a large sample of adult inpatients who ultimately received broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy, delaying initiation of a broad-spectrum antibiotic was not associated with worse outcomes. vs 11.8%, but adverse medication event rates were higher after delayed broad-spectrum therapy at 8.4%

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals 52

vizient

MARCH 7, 2024

With the increasing shift of treatment from inpatient to outpatient settings, come questions about which medications can safely be used at alternate sites of care facilities. The new Vizient Pharmacy Site of Care Database can help answer those questions.

Inpatient 94

Inpatient 94

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

JUNE 1, 2023

Their recommendations are as follows: Outpatient management Able to follow return precautions Likely to continue with alcohol use disorder treatment Supportive living environment Inpatient management Requires frequent physician and nursing intervention Heavy sedation requirements or active delirium tremens Coexisting medical diagnoses that require (..)

Inpatient 246

Inpatient Hospitals 246

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Inpatient wound care teams provided long-term support and a nutrition consult ordered protein, micronutrient, and vitamin supplementation. Clonidine is often added back to their regimens inpatient as their vital signs tolerate.

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HIV Treatment and Prevention Agents Inpatient Hospitals Diabetes 161

PharmExec

JULY 11, 2024

OncLive serves as the connection to oncology, including groundbreaking cancer news and interviews with top oncologists in multimedia formats.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient 52

Express Pharma

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Rocuronium Bromide Injection, 50 mg/5 mL (10 mg/mL) and 100 mg/10 mL (10 mg/mL) Multiple-Dose Vials is the generic version of Zemuron Injection, 50 mg/5 mL and 100 mg/10 mL of Organon USA and is indicated for inpatients and outpatients as an adjunct to general anesthesia to facilitate both rapid sequence and routine tracheal intubation, and to provide (..)

Inpatient 105

Inpatient 105

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

APRIL 12, 2024

In collaboration with the inpatient team, intrapleural thrombolytics were administered via the pigtail catheter did not resolve the issue. For loculated effusions and empyemas, an interdisciplinary inpatient discussion should weigh the pros and cons of intrapleural thrombolytics versus surgical drainage and pleurodesis.

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Inpatient 183

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 16, 2025

If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharma cists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To get immediate access to this and many other resources to help in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 29, 2023

It should be noted that this was a secondary analysis of an existing study and therefore should be hypothesis generating, not necessarily practice-changing, and it is unknown whether inpatients who experience shock-refractory in-hospital cardiac arrest would gain the same benefits as patients in this study.

Hospitals 105

Hospitals Inpatient 105