Hospitals are already seeing predictions of a severe flu season unfold, with 1,674 flu patients admitted to hospitals nationwide for the week ending Oct. 14. Kids account for more than 30 percent of flu hospitalizations, the CDC told NBC News in an Oct…
The newly authorized bivalent, omicron-focused boosters elicited a response similar to the fourth dose of the original COVID-19 vaccine formula, according to a preprint study posted Oct. 24.
Data analysis from the Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai found heart attack deaths rose significantly with COVID-19 surges, including omicron surges.
San Diego, Calif.-based Sharp HealthCare is reorganizing executive leadership for its seven hospitals — a move that is not expected to result in layoffs or affect front-line workers, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Oct. 25.
Long Beach, Calif.-based MemorialCare has internally promoted three executives to align with the hospital group’s future strategic plans, which include regional growth in pediatrics and advancing what it calls its position as the region’s leader in h…
Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina Health and Cleveland-based MetroHealth System have joined forces to create a nonprofit virtual and in-home care company called Ovatient.
With hospitals and health systems facing what it calls “crushing financial challenges,” industry group the American Hospital Association is urging Congress to pass immediate legislation and take steps to ease such burdens.
CVS Health has partnered with digital health company Ixlayer to offer at-home testing kits at its stores and online for sexually transmitted diseases, Vitamin D deficiencies, thyroid disorders and Lyme disease.
New York physician Ahmad Mehdi, MD, is paying $900,000 to settle civil claims over alleged improper opioid prescribing and fraudulent billing, the Justice Department said Oct. 24.
Below are eight hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that posted job listings seeking chief medical officers in the last two weeks.
