Individuals who have experienced a recent fall or are having difficulty with balance may receive a fall risk assessment from a healthcare professional. Medicare covers these assessments during ...

Seven hundred and thirty-four rural hospitals across the U.S., which represent one-third of all rural facilities nationwide, are at risk of closing due to severe financial problems, according to the ...

A new study calls for updating the tools used to assess hospital readmission risk for skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents. One of the measurements used to assess a SNF’s quality of care is how ...

In most healthcare systems, contracts dictate daily operations, including what is reimbursed, which supplies are approved, how vendors are held accountable for service levels, and what actions are ...

Ed Gaudet is the CEO and Founder of Censinet, a healthcare risk management platform, and member of the Health Sector Coordinating Council. Merriam-Webster defines systemic risk as "the risk that the ...

More than 700 hospitals across the rural U.S. are at risk of closing due to their financial instability — that’s over 30% of the country’s rural hospitals. And for more than half of these 700 ...

More than 700 rural hospitals, over 30% of all such providers in the country, are at risk of closing as they face financial losses on patient care, limited sources of other revenue and low financial ...