Since 1980, the average hospital stay in the U.S. has decreased from 7.3 days to 4.5 days, the New York Times reports. Austin Frakt, a health economist, notes discharging patients sooner helps hospitals from a financial perspective.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.