SPOKANE, Wash. - After the Washington State Supreme Court struck down Spokane's anti-camping ban within 1,000 feet of schools, parks, and daycare centers, Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown leaned on existing ...

There is no set definition of who constitutes a super-utilizer. Generally, they are patients who are among the top 1 percent based on their health care expenses, not including trauma victims or ...

A high utilizer is an individual who repeatedly visits an emergency department, continually taxing health care resources. That’s how medical experts define the term, anyway. But that’s just one of the ...

They’re often homeless, maybe with serious mental health and substance abuse issues, as well as chronic diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Some of them account for more than 100 ...

Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison announced a new High Utilizer Initiative this week that aims to identify individuals responsible for repeat criminal activity across the city. “That’s so Seattle,” ...

This study examined whether a case management model designed to reduce emergency department utilization among patients described as super-utilizers in a public health system could also reduce the per ...