Portland-based MaineHealth has promoted Andrea Patstone to regional president of its Coastal Region the Sun Journal reported Dec. 28.
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The COVID-19 treatment landscape
After virus mutations spurred the FDA to yank Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 drug from the market, public health experts told Becker’s their predictions for the future of COVID-19 treatments.
6 stats on violence against nurses
Threats and attacks toward nurses and other healthcare workers have become commonplace. In response, the medical community has issued growing calls to Congress to pass legislation to mitigate workplace violence against healthcare workers.
Nurses must go beyond basic training on privacy compliance, HIPAA Journal says
Basic HIPAA training and adhering to their hospital’s own privacy compliance guidelines may not be enough to ensure nurses are consistently compliant, suggests a Dec. 27 HIPAA Journal report.
Baptist Health suffers $227M loss as expenses rise and investment values slump
Losses on investment, costs associated with converting to the Epic electronic health records system, and excess labor expenses dragged Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health to an overall loss of over $227 million in fiscal 2022. Much of that loss was…
28% of cardiologists suffer from mental health conditions: study
About 28 percent of 5,931 cardiologists surveyed by the American College of Cardiology reported suffering from a mental health condition, according to a Dec. 28 study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
2 anesthesiologists join Tanner Heart Care open-heart surgery team
Two anesthesiologists will join West Georgia Anesthesiology Associates and Tanner Heart Care in Carrollton, according to a Dec. 26 release from Tanner Health. Davoy Murray, MD, and Brit Lovvorn, MD, will join Tanner Health’s open-heart surgery program …
How virtual reality reduces the need for patient anesthesia
A recent study from a Boston medical center found that giving patients virtual reality headsets may decrease the need for anesthesia, according to a Sept. 22 news release.
Cleveland Clinic gastroenterologist arrested for alleged patient assault
Cleveland Clinic gastroenterologist Omar Massoud, MD, PhD, was arrested this week after being charged with six felony counts, three involving sexual assaults on patients, according to a Dec. 28 report from Medscape.
Geisinger College's School of Nursing plans to use $2.5M state grant to increase Pennsylvania's nursing workforce
With an eye on increasing Pennsylvania’s nursing workforce, Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger College of Health Sciences will use a $2.5 million state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant to renovate its School of Nursing in Lewistown, Pa. This p…
