With Room Service and More, Hospitals Borrow From Hotels
At the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital outside Detroit, patients arrive to uniformed valets and professional greeters.
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Remote Heart Monitoring Can Help Detect Emergencies
Instead of having heart monitors with noisy alarms near patients' beds in the hospital, it might be better to have off-site technicians do the heart monitoring remotely, a recent study suggests.
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Teaching In-Home Caregivers Seems to Pay Off
Low-income Californians who are elderly and disabled were less likely to go to the emergency room or be hospitalized after their in-home caregivers participated in an intensive training program, according to a report.
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Syncing Up Drug Refills: A Way to Get Patients to Take Their Medicine
You have your red pill and your green pill. There's the one you take at breakfast, the one you take before bed and the one you have to take six hours after eating.
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After 20 Years, What's Next for Hospitalists?
When the idea of a hospitalist - a doctor, usually an internist, based in the hospital and specializing in caring for patients with complex cases - first emerged 20 years ago, it was considered novel, even fringe.
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Elderly Patients in the Hospital Need to Keep Moving
Thelma Atkins ended up in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital-Highlands after a neighbor in her senior living center ran over her feet with a motorized scooter.
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Americans Living in Multigenerational Households Hits Record High
Americans are living with their parents and grandparents at record levels, even though the Great Recession is now a thing of the past, according to a new analysis of census data from the Pew Research Center.
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Medical Providers Try Uber, Lyft for Patients with Few Transportation Options
Edith Stowe, 83, waited patiently on a recent afternoon at the bus stop outside MedStar Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia.
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Geriatric ERs Reduce Stress, Medical Risks for Elderly Patients
The Mount Sinai Hospital emergency room looks and sounds like hundreds of others across the country: Doctors rush through packed hallways; machines beep incessantly; paramedics wheel stretchers in as patients moan in pain.
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'More at Peace': Interpreters Key to Easing Patients Final Days
Alfredo David lay in bed, looking deflated under an Avengers blanket, as a doctor, two nurses, and medical interpreter Veronica Maldonado entered his hospital room.
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*Opinions expressed in any of the included stories or their publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Kindred Healthcare. This blog post is a compilation of news stories from other sources that have appeared during the past month.