In 2020 alone, urgent care clinics saw a 58% increase in visit volumes due to the demand for COVID-19-related episodic care, with testing and vaccinations accounting for more than 60% of total visits, ...

With the medical and surgical advances of recent decades, a growing proportion of children rely on home-based care for daily health monitoring and care tasks. However, a dearth of available home ...

Maintaining independence is important as we grow older. But in the United States alone, about 28% of adults age 65 and older report a fall every year. Of those accidents, 37% are serious enough to ...

Angela Haupt has been a health writer and editor for more than a decade. She was previously the managing editor of health at U.S. News & World Report, where she spent 11 years covering and editing ...

Any hospital or health system that was on the fence about telehealth services prior to the pandemic has now firmly fallen on the side of strategic adoption. A few trends are driving that interest in ...

Primary care is undervalued and in crisis. The 2021 landmark report from National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a blueprint for revitalizing primary care; a number of states ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bamboo Health™, the leader in Real-Time Care Intelligence™, is teaming up with Radial, a pioneer in decision support software for value-based care, to enhance care ...

The Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health ("the Policy Center") announced today the launch of a six-part national community of learning, in collaboration with the Alliance for Innovation on ...

There are about 66,630 regulated long-term care facilities in the U.S., according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Together, these institutions, which include adult day care centers serve ...