Hospital observation units are more common today than 10 years ago, but many hospitals and insurers still haven’t established billing systems or insurance contracts to acknowledge these units — an ...

Specialized hospital units for patients under observation status could dramatically reduce the number of seniors forced to pay out-of-pocket for skilled nursing care, according to findings in the ...

Looking to prevent avoidable inpatient admissions, hospitals should increase the use of observation units to reap billions in savings and reduce length-of-stay, according to new research published in ...

September 28, 2012 — Maximizing the potential use of dedicated hospital observation units could save billions of dollars in healthcare resources annually, according to results from a study published ...

Josephine Frimpong, right, an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) at University Hospital in Newark cares for Sonia Maria De Assis in the new "observation unit, " created to relieve overcrowding and fix ...

For children with behavioral conditions, psychiatric co-management in the observation unit of a pediatric emergency department was associated with shorter stays and fewer inpatient admissions, an ...

There’s a growing recognition by clinicians that some patients who arrive at the emergency department can benefit if they’re kept under observation for up to a day so that staff can run more tests and ...