hospitalization Archives

The Hidden Financial Incentives Behind Your Shorter Hospital Stay

After one of her operations, my sister-in-law left the hospital so quickly that she couldn’t eat for days; after other stays, she wasn’t discharged until she felt physically and mentally prepared. Five days after his triple heart bypass surgery, my stepfather felt well enough to go home, but the hospital didn’t discharge him for several […]

Severe Respiratory Illness Hitting Children, More Families Covered

Federal health officials are asking physicians to watch for clusters of a rare and severe respiratory illness that is landing children in the hospital and hitting children with asthma particularly hard. The enterovirus D68, or EV-D68, has led to increases in pediatric ER visits, hospitalizations and intensive care-unit stays in Kansas City and Chicago, and […]