Clinical Care

Nursing

A Force to Be Reckoned With: Millennial Nurses Bring Growing Numbers and Higher Expectations to the Work Environment

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

By Marcia Faller, PhD, RN, Chief Clinical Officer, AMN Healthcare Millennial nurses place a higher premium on professional development, quality ...

Urgent Care

5 Things to Consider Before Selling (Or Merging) Your Urgent Care Center

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

By Luis de la Prida Here’s a hot trend we’re seeing: More and more urgent care centers are being approached by ...

Emergency Care

Tracking, Measuring and Improving EMS Data Entry and Documentation

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

Creating a clinically solid, medically sound, and billing-compliant EMS patient care record is critical not just to patient health, but ...

Emergency Care

5 Ways To Improve EMS Crew Communication and Workflow for Quicker Ambulance Billing

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

The holy grail of successful ambulance billing is an efficient EMS workflow that includes the entire ambulance service staff, from ...

Emergency Care

Get Higher and Faster Reimbursement on EMS Insurance Claims

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

EMS-oriented groups continue to lobby on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and other major capitols to improve EMS reimbursement rates. ...

Cancer Care Patient Care

Highmark Health’s VITAL Innovation Program Testing Benefits of New Liquid Biopsy Platform

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

Allegheny Health Network’s Cancer Institute spearheading evaluation of platform for improving outcomes and lowering costs of treatment for patients with non-small ...

Pharmaceutical

Learn How Shaeffer Consulting Group Drastically Improved PRMC’s In-Hospital Pharmacy

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The Western PA Healthcare News Team

The Shaeffer Consulting Group guides its clients to make strategic, intelligent decisions that will ultimately result in safe, clinically sound, ...