The U.S. Department of Labor today has issued a final rule that will require certain employers in high-hazard industries, including healthcare, to electronically submit injury and illness information — which they are already required to keep — to the O…
New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals has spent at least $2 billion on temporary employees since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a figure larger than previously reported contract worker costs, Politico reported July 17.
Franciscan Alliance, the parent company of Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health Indianapolis, will move 61 employees from its information services department to an outside company and end their employment with Franciscan, effective Sept. 30, a spoke…
A hospital in North Carolina earned the top spot on the Lown Institute’s 2023 list of socially responsible hospitals.
A new anesthesiologist-led approach to reducing surgical site infections and length of hospital stays in colorectal patients resulted in a 50 percent decrease in infection instances and a 46 percent decrease in stay length, according to new research fr…
Rising global temperatures and extreme heat are costing healthcare about $1 billion each summer, according to a report jointly released by the Center for American Progress and Virginia Commonwealth University researchers.
Researchers from Stanford University (Calif.) found that clinical notes written by ChatGPT were largely indistinguishable from those written by senior medical residents, MedPage Today reported July 17.
Hospitals in communities with greater numbers of Latino residents were generally allocated lower amounts of COVID-19-related relief funds, HHS said in a July 12 report.
Hospitals in communities with greater numbers of Latino residents were generally allocated lower amounts of COVID-19-related relief funds, HHS said in a July 12 report.
Children’s Egleston Hospital, part of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, will no longer serve as an outpatient facility once the system’s new Arthur M. Blank facility opens at the end of next year.
