A startup founded by a former Cleveland Clinic physician to manage compliance and physician relationships for advanced practitioners has landed $3 million in venture capital funding.
COVID-19 hospitalizations have gone up 21.6 percent and deaths have also risen by 8.9 percent since Aug. 5, according to the CDC’s most recent data, which reflects updated numbers as of Aug. 12.
Nine health systems had had their credit ratings upgraded in the first five months of the year, a number still far outweighed by credit downgrades and lower outlook revisions.
This fall will mark the first virus season since COVID-19 emerged in which hospitals and health systems must independently determine when and how to implement universal masking, if at all.
New research from Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine found that 41 percent of long COVID patients initially tested negative for the virus, which may have led to several not getting the care they later needed for persistent symptoms, according to an Au…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his administration took key steps to begin implementing the Nurse Licensure Compact across the state, according to an Aug. 22 news release.