Search results for "Equity"
Private equity ownership of acute care hospitals more common in low-income, rural areas, study finds
Compared with matched hospitals of different ownership, private equity hospitals had a higher rurality score, were located in ZIP codes with lower median household incomes, and had slightly lower patient experience scores.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/30/5.htm
30 Sep 2020
Puzzling it out together
Hospitalists share strategies for pandemic problems.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/puzzling-it-out-together.htm
15 Oct 2020
Loss in the time of COVID
My mother's hospital had decided to all halt all visitors to protect the patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/loss-in-the-time.htm
15 Nov 2020
Private equity and hospitals
Experts and research look at effects of health care investing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/private-equity-and-hospitals.htm
15 Dec 2020
Teams to improve hip fracture, heart failure
This issue looks at comanagement of hip fractures, prescribing for heart failure, antibiotic use in COVID-19, and private equity ownership of hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Dec 2020
December issue online and in the mail
Hip fracture comanagement, heart failure prescribing, antibiotic use in COVID-19, and private equity investment are covered in the latest issue of ACP Hospitalist.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/12/16/5.htm
16 Dec 2020
Correcting medicine's use of race
Hospitalists are pushing for changes in eGFR and other algorithms.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/01/free/correcting-medicines-use-of-race.htm
15 Jan 2021
Getting dialysis for undocumented patients
Limited coverage worsens outcomes for patients and increases costs for the system.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/01/getting-dialysis-for-undocumented-patients.htm
15 Jan 2021
A call to action: Align well-being and antiracism strategies
Physicians have a duty to challenge processes, policies, and procedures that stem from structural inequities.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/a-call-to-action-align-well-being-and-antiracism-strategies.htm
15 Mar 2021
Answers and even more questions on COVID-19 vaccines
In a fourth forum from ACP and Annals of Internal Medicine, infectious disease experts Carlos del Rio, MD, FACP, Paul Sax, MD, and Deborah Cotton, MD, MPH, FACP, discussed COVID-19 vaccines and their implementation, as well as other aspects of the pandemic response.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/31/1.htm
31 Mar 2021