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Hospitals are improving infection control, with only a small fraction subject to Medicare reimbursements penalties each year since 2018.

Climate change has exposed vulnerabilities in emergency preparedness of hospitals and long-term care facilities suffering from natural disasters.

Morrow County Hospital receives 5-star rating for quality Staff Report MOUNT GILEAD — Morrow County Hospital was one of only 35 hospitals in Ohio that received a 5-star rating from CMS (The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) based on 37 measures of performance in five categories that include mortality, safety of care, readmission rates, patient experience and timely/effective care. Hospitals report data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through the Hospital Inpatient...

(Photo by Alex Wong\Getty Images) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated the Medicare fee-for-service payment rates and policies for inpatient hospitals and long-term care hospitals for 2022.  Before taking into account Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments and Medicare uncompensated care payments, the proposed increase in operating payment rates, increases in capital payments, increases in payments for new medical technologies, increases in payments due to impl...

Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London and Westerly Hospital are facing reductions in Medicare payments because of the relatively high rates of complications their patients developed during stays between mid-2017 and mid-2019, which was long before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Backus Hospital in Norwich faces no such penalty. All three of the hospitals serving the region will get lower reimbursements for Medicare patients in the current fiscal year based on their patient readmission...

VUMC among facilities docked for complications This article has been updated to reflect the actual dollar amount Vanderbilt University Medical Center stands to lose from the Medicare penalty based on last years inpatient admissions revenue.  Twenty-two hospitals across Tennessee are being penalized by Medicare for the number of complications among patients from hospital-acquired conditions and will see their reimbursement rates for the next fiscal year fall by 1 percent. The Centers for Medica...

Penalized for Patient Complications: 774 Hospitals Set to Lose Medicare Funding Some of the country’s biggest hospitals and medical centers will lose Medicare funding due to high rates of infection and preventable patient complications, according to the federal government. The facilities are being cited for their lack of safety based on data collected between 2017 and 2019. The U.S. healthcare system had a problem with infectious disease before the coronavirus was even on our radar, and 500,0...

Those hospitals, which include several in Florida and some of the nation’s marquee medical centers, will lose 1% of their Medicare payments over 12 months.

Around the nation: AHA names new senior leader who will focus on health equity The American Hospital Association (AHA) has created and filled a new senior leadership role to oversee AHAs health equity and inclusion strategies, in todays bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Illinois, Maryland, and Massachusetts. Illinois: AHA has created and filled a new senior leadership role to oversee AHAs health equity and inclusion strategies. AHA has appointed Joy Lewis, who previously serve...