Posts Tagged ‘business’

Study Finds Differences in Benefits, Service at Hospices Based on Tax Status

Main Point:

The tax status of a hospice (for-profit vs. nonprofit) affects community benefits, the population served and community outreach.

Published in:

JAMA Internal Medicine 

Author:

Melissa D. Aldridge, Ph.D., of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and colleagues.

Background:

The number of for-profit hospices has increased over the past two decades with about 51 percent of hospices being for-profit in 2011 compared with about 5 percent in 1990. But little is known about how for-profit and nonprofit hospices differ in activities beyond service delivery.

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Study Develops Top 5 List of Procedures to Reduce Costs in Emergency Department

Main Points:

A top-five list of emergency medicine procedures that are of low value and could help control costs if providers do not order them was developed as part of a study by Jeremiah D. Schuur, M.D., M.H.S., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and colleagues.

Published in:

JAMA Internal Medicine 

Study Further:

The cost of medical care in the United States is growing at an unsustainable rate and the tests, treatments and hospitalizations that come from emergency department care are expensive, according to the study background.

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Improving Post-hospital Outcomes with Community Health Worker Intervention

Main Points:

Hospitalized patients with low-socioeconomic status were more likely to obtain post-discharge primary care and less likely to have multiple 30-day readmissions to the hospital when they worked with community health workers to create individualized plans for their recovery goals, according to a study by Shreya Kangovi, M.D., M.S., of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and colleagues.

Published in:

JAMA Internal Medicine

Study Further:

Socioeconomic and other factors can negatively affect post-hospital outcomes. Community health workers (CHWs) are trained laypeople who can work to support patients because traditional hospital personnel often lack the time and community linkages to address those factors, according to the study background.

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Mapping the New York Fashion Scene

Main Point:

New York’s fashion industry handles business in Garment District.

Published in:

PLoS ONE

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