Quality and Safety
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.
Only 51 home health agency received the lowest rating, while over 2,000 received the top ranking in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services new star ratings for home health agencies.
Franciscan St. Elizabeth Health - Crawfordsville in Indiana has been waiting a long time for a new emergency room, and thanks to a $15 million investment from the Franciscan Alliance -- a group that owns 14 hospitals in the area -- it will finally get one.