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When the Covid-19 pandemic started, it reminded us how we all depended on our nurses. From the first day of the pandemic and until now, we still depend on them.
Our nation's 4.3 million registered nurses work on every aspect of health care and are very crucial in delivering care, evolving health care systems locally and nationally. But, because of the pandemic nursing shortages are already rampant in our...
The new law is the most significant health care legislation since the Affordable Care Act was passed more than a decade ago.
The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden, is set to lower the cost of prescription drugs — including cancer medications, blood thinners and insulin — for millions of Americans, experts say.
Exorbitant drug prices in the United States are a key reason many people in the...
In a Q&A, Penn Nursing’s Linda Aiken describes how a hospital earning Magnet designation creates a better, safer experience for patients and clinicians, plus the push to expand such credentialing beyond the U.S.
Linda Aiken , who founded Penn Nursing ’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research , has been improving the quality of United States hospitals for four decades.
Aiken began this work in...
This July, newly graduated doctors across the country will start their residency training while others will be finishing and beginning their careers. At the same time, headlines continue to warn of the burnout endured by medical professionals as the COVID-19 pandemic drags into its third year.
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During this period of transition for newly minted physicians and specialists,...
Hospitals must list the cash prices for services like X-rays or medical tests online, according to federal law. A new study finds the rule is largely ignored.
Few hospitals are posting the prices of their common procedures online, despite a federal law that went into effect more than a year ago.
The Hospital Price Transparency Law is intended to make the hidden costs of services such as X-rays, medical tests or...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is responsible for safety regulations. It is ill-equipped to enforce them.
Despite a recent spike in Covid transmission in hospitals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is unlikely to issue meaningful penalties, according to policy experts. | Mario Tama/Getty Images
Cathy Kornman is a nurse in Atlanta who cares for patients recovering from...
Monkeypox virus is an orthopoxvirus that has symptoms same as the Smallpox virus but less severe. There are two distinct clade of this virus identified: The West African clade and the Congo clade, also known as the Central African Clade. It is a Zoonosis, which means that the virus is transmitted from an animal to a human being. Thus, this virus is usually found in areas where Tropical Rain Forests are near because of the animals that...
Joy Lee and Dan Pfeifle arrived early for the June, 2019, meeting of the American Medical Association, where they were helping to lead a gathering of the A.M.A’s medical-student delegation. The medical students usually assembled early to discuss priorities, but this year they had an additional reason to strategize: they had decided that they would try to persuade the A.M.A.’s governing body, the House of Delegates, to end the...
Initially, scientists considered COVID-19 a respiratory condition, but they are slowly building up a clearer picture of the wide-ranging impacts of the disease.
Researchers have now shown that COVID-19 can affect many systems in the human body.
A recent study investigated the longer-term effects of COVID-19 in older adults.
It found that around one-third of older adults with COVID-19 went on to develop new...
In the early morning on Mother’s Day in 2020, Solomon Barraza walked into an intensive-care unit in Amarillo, Texas, and, with the fluorescent lights clicking on above him after the night shift, flipped through the stack of papers attached to a gray clipboard — his roster of patients and nurses for the day. Barraza, who was 30 at the time, had only recently become a charge nurse at Northwest Texas Healthcare System hospital. He...
The pandemic dramatically disrupted cancer screenings, and thousands of lives are now at stake.
Steve Serrao, chief of gastroenterology at a hospital in Moreno Valley, California, just lived through the fourth wave of Covid-19 with the omicron variant sweeping across the country . Patients in respiratory distress once again filled the hospital’s beds.
But it is another wave, one...
If all hospitals performed similarly to those on the top 250 list, on average, 160,256 lives could be saved, Healthgrades says.
Healthgrades has released its list of the 250, 100 and 50 best hospitals for clinical excellence.
The list of 250 represent the top 5% in the nation for 2022. When culled down to a list of the top 100 and top 50, these hospitals represent the top 2% and 1%, respectively,...