Insights and Trends
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Optimizing Length of Stay: The Key to Hospital Success
April 28, 2025Despite widespread efforts to standardize patient care for efficiency, achieving consistent reductions in length of stay (LOS) across complex patient populations remains a critical challenge.
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Non-Profit Hospitals Are Turning to Post-Acute Providers for Rehabilitation Partnership
April 14, 2025While hospitals understandably prioritize financial investment in acute services for program optimization, staffing and resource allocation, health leaders recognize the substantial benefits of post-acute care in improving patient outcomes, length of stay and readmission risk.
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Reduce Cost, Increase Revenue: The Power of Inpatient Rehabilitation Partnership
March 27, 2025Hospitals are facing significant financial challenges, including rising supply and labor costs, increasing regulatory burdens, and other operating pressures. Moreover, 40% of hospitals are operating in the red, and 31% of rural hospitals are at risk of closing, notes a Kaufman Hall report.
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Revolutionizing Behavioral Health: The Power of Partnership
March 19, 2025As behavioral health cases surge, overwhelming EDs, hospitals and staff, health leaders are seeking solutions to manage this growing crisis without diverting resources from core services.
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Inpatient Rehabilitation: A Key Player in Value-Based Care
March 11, 2025Value-based care (VBC), a CMS initiative, drives hospitals to deliver high-quality, affordable care by focusing on patient outcomes rather than the volume of services provided.
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Healthcare Headlines from the Hill: February Edition
February 26, 2025Stay ahead of the latest regulatory shifts and healthcare breaking news with Headlines from the Hill.
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The Financial Impact of Clinical Staffing Shortages on Hospital Outcomes
February 13, 2025Recruiting and retaining quality clinical staff remains a top priority for hospitals and health systems this year.
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Why Acute Hospitals Are Investing in Inpatient Rehabilitation
January 28, 2025Inpatient rehabilitation provides comprehensive therapy in a hospital setting for patients recovering from serious illnesses, injuries or surgeries. As the most intensive form of rehabilitation, it's designed to help patients regain their independence and return to the community.
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Elevating Women's Mental Health: A Hospital’s Role
January 22, 2025Nearly 50% of women in the U.S. identify their obstetrician-gynecologist (OBGYN) as their main medical provider. This means they often discuss mental health concerns with their OBGYN, including anxiety, depression, chronic pain, substance abuse and trauma.
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Healthcare Headlines from the Hill: January Edition
January 10, 2025Stay ahead of the latest regulatory shifts and healthcare breaking news with Headlines from the Hill.
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The Future of Healthcare: 4 Hospital Trends For 2025
December 18, 2024The post-acute care landscape is forever evolving, making it critical for health leaders to stay on top of shifting trends, particularly within the inpatient rehabilitation setting. To optimize hospital operations, improve patient outcomes, and bolster financial sustainability, understanding and adapting hospital priorities has never been more important.
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Healthcare Headlines from the Hill: December Edition
December 12, 2024Stay ahead of the latest regulatory shifts and healthcare breaking news with Headlines from the Hill.
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$16 Trillion and Growing: Strategies to Combat the Global Impact of Mental Health Disorders
November 19, 2024As of May 2024, 65% of U.S. adults report experiencing concerns about their own mental health or the mental health of their friends and family (up 15% from 2020), notes a CVS Health survey.1
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Healthcare Headlines from the Hill: November Edition
November 14, 2024Stay ahead of the latest regulatory shifts and healthcare breaking news with Headlines from the Hill.
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A Hospital’s Role in Fighting Health Disparities
November 07, 2024Health disparities are a persistent issue, with certain communities facing significantly worse health outcomes than others. This gap is often present in access to quality post-acute services, particularly for those requiring inpatient rehabilitation.
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Executive Insights: Preparing Your Hospital for CMS’ Review Choice Demonstration
October 15, 2024Following CMS’ Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) implementation in Alabama on August 21, 2023, CMS has added guidance to aid in the process and has begun implementation in a new state.
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Strategies for Improved Health Literacy: How Patients, Providers and Communities can Benefit
October 09, 2024October is National Health Literacy month, which aims at increasing awareness and education about the importance of improving health literacy for both patients and healthcare providers.
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Healthcare Headlines from the Hill: September Edition
September 24, 2024Stay ahead of the latest regulatory shifts and healthcare breaking news with Headlines from the Hill. In this month’s edition you will find : Cost of healthcare: Three bills proposed. MedPAC considers rural health quality. MedPAC critical access hospitals: Shifting coinsurance to 20% of payment rates and introducing a cap. Prior Authorization: State legislatures…
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Boosting Adult Behavioral Health Outcomes: Three Key Advantages of Partnership
September 19, 2024By 2030, it is estimated that nearly 14 million Americans aged 56 years or older will have a mental health or substance use disorder – an increase of 57% from 2012.1 This growing number has pushed behavioral health to the forefront of hospital strategic priorities.
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CMS Staffing Mandate Finalized: What Does It Mean for Patient and Hospital Outcomes?
September 11, 2024The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and other nursing homes. 1 These requirements are expected to have lasting impacts on the industry, including several post-acute programs, such as inpatient rehabilitation. Since CMS proposed the requirement in 2023, it has been…
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