Quality and Safety
Nearly a third of patients who get colonoscopies to screen for cancer visit a gastroenterologist before having the procedure, at an average cost of $124, even though such visits may be unnecessary, a new study found.
The Pardee Hospital Foundation has received $200,000 from the James H. Cummings Foundation and $150,000 from the Cannon Foundation to support ongoing renovations to the North Carolina hospital's operating rooms, part of the facility's Comprehensive Cancer Center Capital Campaign.
Six hospitals in the North Carolina-based Vidant Health system will join Winston-Salem's Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Telestroke Network by the end of the year, Wake Forest Baptist announced in a statement Wednesday.
As of February 2, 67 rural hospitals have closed nationwide since 2010 and another 210 are on the brink, according to a study by iVantage Health Analytics.
Patients suffered no extra harm when doctors training to be surgeons were allowed to work longer shifts, a study released Tuesday concludes, adding to a push to relax the strictest limits on resident hours.
CEO compensation at national benchmark hospitals was 17 percent higher than those further down on the list, after adjusting for hospital class, Truven and Mercer found.
The Arizona Department of Health Services is reaching out to local doctors to ask them to monitor patients with the disease symptoms.
Members of Congress, federal officials and health-policy experts agree that the Food and Drug Administration's surveillance system for devices is inadequate and relies too heavily on manufacturers to report problems with their own products.
The Boston Public Health Commission has confirmed that a man in Boston has been infected with the Zika virus and is expected to recover.
The World Health Organization will hold an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee meeting on February 1 to determine whether the outbreak and spread of the Zika virus across constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.