September 13, 2024 – The American Hospital Affiliation (AHA) launched a brand new report exhibiting that hospitals and well being programs carried out higher on key affected person security and high quality measures within the first quarter of 2024 than earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals made these enhancements whereas caring for sufferers with extra essential care wants.

For the report, Vizient supplied a risk-adjusted evaluation of knowledge from a broad spectrum of 715 basic acute care hospitals in 49 states and the District of Columbia with knowledge from the fourth quarter of 2019 by means of the primary quarter of 2024. Key findings embody that regardless of being sicker and having extra advanced circumstances, hospitalized sufferers had been, on common, greater than 20% extra prone to survive within the first quarter of 2024 than anticipated given the severity of their diseases in comparison with the fourth quarter of 2019. Hospitals additionally typically cared for extra sufferers within the first quarter of 2024 than they did within the final quarter of 2019, together with caring for a sicker, extra advanced affected person inhabitants.

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