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At a time when rural hospitals are seeing increasing financial pressures and closures, Leadville, Colo.-based St. Vincent Hospital is defying the odds with a $6 million financial turnaround. The ...
Members of the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, have called a third strike at University Medical Center in New Orleans amid contract negotiations. The ...
The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency has access to sensitive information in 19 HHS databases and systems, according to a court filing obtained by Wired. HHS submitted the filing as part of the ...
The FDA has issued a safety warning regarding a potentially high-risk issue involving certain BD PowerPICC Intravascular Catheters. The affected devices are 4 Fr. Single Lumen PowerPICC catheters, ...
A recent study found that changing the default prescription length for statins to 90 days significantly increased the number of long-term prescriptions written, potentially improving patient adherence ...
Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health System opened its $273 million Mount Carmel Dublin (Ohio) hospital on April 22, according to a post on the health system’s LinkedIn page. The ...
UNC Health CEO and UNC School of Medicine Dean Wesley Burks, MD, will step down from his roles effective Sept. 1. Dr. Burks is leaving “to focus more efforts on the development of North Carolina ...
University Hospital in Newark, N.J., has selected New Jersey Department of Health Commissioner Kaitlan Baston, MD, as interim CEO, effective May 3. Dr. Baston will temporarily step into the role held ...
Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health is swapping traditional plastic pill bottles for recyclable containers called Tully Tubes to reduce waste and cut carbon admissions, according to an April 22 news ...
The National Labor Relations Board has sided with primary care physicians at Mass General Brigham’s Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s hospitals by allowing the proposed 400-member ...
A nurse previously accused of harming three babies at a Virginia hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit now faces additional charges related to five infant patients. On April 22, prosecutors served ...
Paragould-based Arkansas Methodist Medical Center and Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care plan to merge. Five things to know: ...