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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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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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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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Partner Testimonial: Advantages of Partnership for Improved Hospital Outcomes
July 23, 2024When looking for a qualified and trusted rehabilitation partner, it is important to seek out flexibility to ensure all needs are met for your patients, staff and facility.
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Co-occurring behavioral health conditions: What are they and how can hospitals address them?
July 10, 2024Approximately 21.5 million Americans meet the criteria for having co-occurring disorders, or illnesses happening simultaneously such as depression and substance use disorder. 1 Historically, hospitals have approached mental health and substance abuse as separate programs. This leaves patients with a co-occurring disorder feeling lost when it comes to identifying the best…
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5 Strategies to Help Your Hospital Overcome Ongoing Clinical Staffing Challenges in 2024
June 05, 2024Although employment and wages in the healthcare industry have seen improvements since the pandemic, there are still ongoing concerns about high quit rates, labor shortages and stagnant wages. For example, 1 in 5 registered nurses (RNs) still report they intend to leave the workforce by 2027 due to mounting stress and burnout in their position.
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Healthcare Headlines from the Hill: May Edition
May 17, 2024Stay ahead of the latest regulatory shifts and healthcare breaking news with Headlines from the Hill.
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Behavioral Health Inequity in 2024: Overcoming Three Root Causes
May 13, 2024In the U.S., individuals with serious mental illnesses die 15 to 30 years younger than those without mental illness.1 Further, there are specific communities across the nation that are seeing higher rates of mental illness, which has caused what we know today as behavioral health inequity.
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Inpatient Rehabilitation Management: Key Insights to Help Hospitals Overcome the Obstacles
May 09, 2024Shifting regulations, rising denials and ongoing labor shortages present a multitude of challenges for hospitals when running an inpatient rehabilitation program. However, these are not the only obstacles.
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Top Challenges of Running Inpatient Rehabilitation: 3 Things to Know
April 15, 2024The rehabilitation services market is expected to reach $215 billion by 2030 – a 48% jump from its 2021 valuation. 1 However, the demand and complexity of inpatient rehabilitation is outpacing the ability to acquire and maintain specialized resources, expertise and capital to meet the growing need in local communities. Discover 3 of the top challenges hospitals face…
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Lifepoint Partner Testimonial: Enhancing outcomes for the growing medically complex population
March 19, 2024In recent years, post-acute admissions for neurological and pulmonary conditions have seen significant growth – with acuity rates of the general patient population rising 6% since 2019. These rising rates, couples of prolonged length of stay (LOS) numbers, has hospitals juggling a variety of new and complex illnesses.1,2
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Mental Health Utilization on the Rise: How Are Hospital Operations Being Impacted?
March 12, 2024Mental health spend has increased more than 50% since 2020, with in-person behavioral health service utilization up nearly 40%.
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The Rise of Value-Based Care: What It Is and Why Hospitals Should Prioritize Integration
March 06, 2024CMS aims to have all Medicare beneficiaries and most Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled in accountable care programs by 2030. 1 This growing rate of adoption could lead to a value-based care (VBC) market valuation of $1 trillion in the coming years – creating substantial value for payers and providers, notes a McKinsey and Company report. 2 Understanding value-based…
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3 Factors Hindering Hospitals from Providing Quality Behavioral Health Treatment
January 17, 2024More than 56%, or 27 million, U.S. adults experiencing a behavioral health illness are not receiving treatment. 1,2 Historically, a lack of education on behavioral health has played a major role in an individual’s willingness to seek treatment. However, as awareness and education around behavioral health services grow, new barriers hinder patients from receiving…
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Three Inpatient Rehabilitation Trends Every Health Executive Should Know
December 19, 20232024 is anticipated to be a year of significant change for post-acute and inpatient rehabilitation service lines. To help ensure hospitals stay ahead of these changes and position themselves for success throughout the year, health leaders are looking into the trends expected to have the greatest impact. Three of these top trends include: Heightened Focus on Financial…
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Strategies to Improve Primary Care Operations: Importance of Behavioral Health Partnership
December 19, 2023Growing Need for Behavioral Health in the Hospital Setting An analysis by the Advisory Board noted that approximately 90% of both low- and high-acuity patients would choose to seek out their primary care provider (PCP) for behavioral health treatment and/or resources. 1 However, patients who choose to admit to their PCP over other settings, such as a hospital-based…
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5 Healthcare Consumer Trends Impacting Hospitals Nationwide
December 12, 2023Healthcare is an ever-changing landscape, and so are its consumers. A recent Advisory Board report uncovered key insights into the latest healthcare consumer behaviors and how hospitals can prepare for its impact both now and in the future through inpatient rehabilitation integration. Five factors influencing healthcare consumer decisions and the driving forces behind…
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Combat Rising Emergency Department Admissions with Behavioral Health Integration
November 27, 2023Rising Emergency Department Admissions: A Cause for Concern The number of admissions and readmissions to the emergency department (ED) for behavioral health services has seen rapid growth in the past several years. This rise has not only significantly increased healthcare costs, but it continues to have a negative impact on the quality of life of patients, their families…
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Case Study: Palomar Health Expands Care Access to the Greater San Diego Community
November 14, 2023The Challenge For members of the North San Diego community in the past, access to specialized acute rehabilitation care was not readily available. This forced patients to travel outside of their local community to receive treatment which was also not near other sites of care, such as the emergency department (ED) or trauma center. The Solution Palomar Health saw this gap…
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