Small, rural and safety-net hospitals across the U.S. are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding and community grants to purchase, upgrade and install EHRs.
Teva Pharmaceuticals, an Israel-based drug manufacturer, has agreed to pay U.S. hospitals up to $126 million to settle allegations that its marketing of opioids increased the hospitals’ operating costs, according to financial documents published Aug. 2.
International nurses have more human capital than American-born nurses yet often get the worst jobs, according to a study by researchers at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University.
A jury awarded more than $39.5 million to an oncologist who accused UC San Diego of retaliation after a dispute over a $10 million donation, The Brunswick News reported Aug. 3.
Dignity Health-St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., has named Ardel Guillamas Avelino, DNP, RN, its new vice president and chief operating officer.
“When there’s failure, it’s tempting to take that as a sign that you should just give up,” Terry Shaw, president and CEO of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth, wrote in a July 20 LinkedIn post. “But learning from failure can lead to growth, ins…