Summit Park Hospital Opens New Acute Renal Dialysis Center

Posted by Jason Greis on December 9, 2009 under Industry News | Be the First to Comment

On December 8, 2009, Rockland County Executive, C. Scott Vanderhoef ,and Hospitals Commissioner, Richard Maloney, announced the official opening of Summit Park Hospital’s new Acute Renal Dialysis Unit.  Summit Park Hospital is a 100-bed acute care hospital with 57 physical medicine/rehabilitation beds and 43 inpatient psychiatric beds and is one of four LTACHs in New York State.  Representatives from several regional hospitals, including Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern and the Westchester County Medical Center, attended the ribbon cutting ceremony held on the fourth floor dialysis unit. Read More...

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Exploring the Potential Benefits and Drawbacks of Acute-Care and Post-Acute Care Payment Bundling

Posted by Jason Greis on April 3, 2009 under Articles, Whitepapers | Be the First to Comment

The current Congressional fervor to overhaul the U.S. health care system has some policy makers discussing how to change the way post-acute providers, including LTACHs, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and outpatient-based hospital rehabilitation facilities are compensated for treating Medicare beneficiaries.  One solution proposed by President Barack Obama, the Congressional Budget Office, and certain congressional leaders is to bundle payments for acute care and post-acute care services provided within the first thirty days after being discharged from an acute care hospital.  This bundling model has been proposed many times since the early 1980s as a measure to control escalating post-acute care costs, decrease the number of preventable acute-care hospital readmissions, and increase Medicare cost savings but has never received broad support-until now. Read More...

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