It’s a confusing situation for patients and a financially necessary one for hospitals: If a hospital cannot decide whether a patient is appropriate for inpatient admission, the patient can be kept up ...

NOBLESVILLE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Collette Health, a leading provider of continuous virtual patient observation solutions, today announced a new feature, Third Party Join, that allows members of the ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), which represents hospitalists, has called for the elimination of observation status in acute care hospitals. The society would replace it with a new low-acuity ...

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. and CLEARWATER, Fla. (February 20, 2026) – Ardent Health, a leading provider of healthcare in growing mid-sized urban communities across the U.S., today announced it has partnered ...

The Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care provides a free, downloadable and adaptable card for patients to fill out when observing whether their healthcare providers are ...

Hospitals Increase Use of Observation Stays, Creating Coverage Issues for Medicare Patients Hospitals across the country are using observation stay classifications among Medicare patients with greater ...

If you're on Medicare and you're in the hospital for a few days, you may think you're an inpatient. The hospital may have other ideas. Increasingly, hospitals are placing older patients on ...

Trained patient sitters are taking some of the burden off of licensed nurses, says Lauren Prepchuk, head of Patient Observation for Crothall Healthcare. Crothall, a support service provider, trains ...