ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project issued the following statistical brief (No. 311) in September 2024 by Marc Roemer, M.S. entitled "Costs of Treat-and-Release Emergency Department Visits in the United States, 2021": Here is the introduction: * * * Expenditures on hospital care in the United States increased by 11.0 percent from 2019 to 20211 despite a decrease in the volume of inpatient stays2 and   more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project issued the following statistical brief (No. 314) in October 2024 by Melissa A. Miller, M.D., M.S., Leyi Lin, M.D., David P. Calfee, M.D., M.S., Amy Gehrke, M.S. and Alex Bohl, Ph.D. entitled "Hospital Differences in Adult Inpatient Stays with Healthcare-Associated Infections, 2019 and 2021": Here is the introduction: * * * Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) a  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project issued the following statistical brief (No. 313) in October 2024 by Melissa A. Miller, M.D., M.S., Craig A. Umscheid, M.D., M.S., James Dowell, M.P.P., Eric Schone, Ph.D. entitled "Prevalence and Burden of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs), 2016-2021". : Here is the introduction: * * * Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) develop while a patient is receivi  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project issued the following statistical brief (No. 309) in August 2024 by Melissa A. Miller, M.D., M.S., Kimberly Martin, Ph.D., Molly Hensche, M.S. and Carrie Goetsch, B.S. entitled "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Inpatient Stays Involving Sepsis, 2016-2021": Here is the introduction: * * * Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response to infection that results in tissue   more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project issued the following statistical brief (No. 308) in August 2024 by Joanna Jiang, Ph.D., Lan Liang, Ph.D., Meghana Chandra, M.P.P, and Sai Loganathan, Ph.D. entitled "Rural and Urban Hospital Differences in Inpatient Stays Involving Sepsis, 2019 and 2021.": Here are excerpts: * * * Introduction Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response to infection that results i  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project issued the following statistical brief (No. 310) in September 2024 by Marc Roemer, M.S., Marc Zodet, M.S., Desiree Esselman, M.P.H. and Minya Sheng, M.S. entitled "State Variation in Inpatient Stays Involving Sepsis, 2021": Here is the introduction: * * * Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response to infection that results in tissue damage and organ failure and c  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project issued the following statistical brief (No. 312) in September 2024 by Lawrence D. Reid, Ph.D., M.P.H. entitled "Trends in Severe Maternal Morbidity Complications by Patient Characteristics, 2016-2021": Here is the introduction: * * * Monitoring severe maternal morbidity (SMM) using hospital discharge data is vital to improving maternal health outcomes in the Unit  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) obligated nearly $1 billion of contracts in fiscal year 2024, infusing millions of dollars into the Southern Maryland economy. Driving this influx of funds was the multi-year $2.7 billion Energetics Comprehensive Modernization Plan (ECMP), which is the Navy's effort to revitalize its industrial base to meet wartime munitions and energetic demand. "We have  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Oct. 25, 2024: The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in Prince George's County, Maryland, during the early voting period and on Election Day. The Justice Department enforces the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot. The department regularly deploys its staff to monitor for compliance with   more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland issued the following news release: After a four-day jury trial, a federal jury has convicted Igor Yasinov, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland, of four counts of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers or Employees, Inflicting Bodily Injury. The conviction was announced by Erek L. Barron, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland; Clinton J. Fuchs, United States Marshal for the District of Mary  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland posted the following news release on Oct. 25, 2024: The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in Prince George's County, Maryland, during the early voting period and on Election Day. The Justice Department enforces the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot. The department regularly deploys it  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland issued the following news release: On October 23, 2024, Tomeka Glenn, a/k/a "Tomeka Harris" and "Tomeka Davis," age 47, of Windsor Mill, Maryland, was sentenced by United States District Judge Richard D. Bennett to 65 months' imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release in connection with her conviction on conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to the submission of millions of dollars in fraudulent   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Oct. 25, 2024: Ehren Fluellyn, 36, of Temple Hills, Maryland, was arrested today on a one-count federal indictment charging him with violating the constitutional rights of a detained citizen on April 12, 2023, announced United States Attorney Matthew M. Graves and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David Geist of the Washington Field Office Criminal and Cyber Division. Accor  more