Background: The transition from adolescent to adult care has been associated with worse outcomes including increased mortality (1). Improved patient experience (PEX) correlates with decreased inpatient mortality rates and better adherence to quality guidelines (2) as well as lower 30- day readmission rates for patients with heart failure, acute MI and pneumonia (3). Hospitalized adolescents [...]

Background: Young adults with special health-care needs is a growing population due to medical advances and improved patient outcomes. [1] Unfortunately, the transition into adult medical care for these young adults is often met with declining health and increasing acute care utilization. [2-5] To redesign care for this growing population, we started the Med-Peds service [...]

Case Presentation: Spontaneous coronary artery disease (SCAD)—an uncommon cause of coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death—has been studied and described in greater detail in recent years. However, it still represents a diagnostic challenge with a high degree of uncertainty for proper management.A 37-year-old Hispanic female presented to the emergency department at another facility for sudden [...]