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While the nursing shortage has been a glaring problem nationwide for the last few years, the nursing faculty shortage may be an even bigger issue.

Emory University is suspending its $1.5 billion medical expansion project due to concerns about the deteriorating economy.

A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that most seniors enrolled in Medicare's prescription drug benefit plan did not choose one of the lowest-cost drug plans offered in their area.

Researchers from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business say poor communication in U.S. hospitals has cost the nation $12 billion a year.

President Barack Obama has announced regional forums, patterned after the healthcare reform summit held last week at the White House, to be hosted by the governors of California, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina and Vermont in March or early April.

GE Healthcare of Barrington, Ill., has announced that Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth has implemented the company’s Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC) quality data system to align its Centricity EMR and practice management solutions with Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI).

A healthcare network in upstate New York has settled a class-action lawsuit that alleged hospitals conspired to depress wages of registered nurses.

Through the first three quarters of 2008, a majority of Florida's largest health insurers saw a 25 percent increase in per-member, per-month costs for emergency room and out-of-area services.

Low-income Pennsylvanians living in personal care homes have received an increase in personal needs allowance from the state for the first time since 1993.

Employment at U.S. hospitals climbed 0.14 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted 4,719,300 people, according to a federal Bureau of Labor Statistics issued last week.