Mark Gestring, M.D., a trauma surgeon at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center (URMC), was fed up seeing teenagers arrive at the trauma center to be treated for gunshot or knife wounds,
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The Food and Drug Administration continues to recommend that health care facilities not use certain Custom Ultrasonics automated endoscope reprocessors to reprocess duodenoscopes, the agency said t
A study published online today in Health Affairs compares prescription fills and out-o
The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has released
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision permitting an incumbent union of a hospital to organize only a small portion of the unrepresented employees in a partially organized bargaining unit.
The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative today released a compendium of their toolkits to help hospital leaders, clinicians and patients examine
Healthcare Ready has activated its Rx Open mapping tool to help health care providers and patients in Louisiana, Texas and
The Washington State Hospital Association today named as its next
Michigan hospitals provided nearly 227,000 jobs and $2.9 billion in community benefits in fiscal year 2014, the Michigan Health & Hospital Association
The AHA today submitted comments on a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed rule revising
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell Friday declared a public health emergenc
The historic flooding in southern Louisiana yesterday forced Ochsner Medical Center Baton Rouge (O’Neal campus) to transfer a number of critically ill patients to other Ochsner facilities, th
Michael Bromberg, who served as executive director of the Federation of American Hospitals from 1969 through 1994, died this weekend.
Hospitals participating in the inpatient, outpatient and prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospital quality reporting programs have until Aug.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed to clarify the hospi
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today issued a proposed rule amending
The Health Resources and Services Administration yesterday awarded&n
Neonatal abstinence syndrome increased 300% between 1999 and 2013, from 1.5 cases per 1,000 hospital births to 6 per 1,000, according to a new
The Health Resources and Services Administration today released a proposed rule that
The AHA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today hosted a call for hospital and health system leaders on the latest developments regarding Zika virus.