Around 13% of patients with a dementia diagnosis may instead have advanced liver disease — also called cirrhosis — which can cause reversible cognitive decline, researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and the Richmond VA …
Fitch downgraded Houston-based Texas Children’s Hospital’s rating to “AA-” from “AA.”
Hospitals, on average, save $1,763 per admission, have fewer patient complications, and a decreased length of stay after implementing programs based on 12 standards outlined by the American College of Surgeons.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has named two physicians to leadership roles.
Digital health funding is seeing a rebound with startups raising $5.7 billion across 266 deals in the first half of 2024, according to a July 8 report from Rock Health.
Portland, Ore.-based nonprofit digital healthcare innovation group OCHIN, Inc. said 10 healthcare organizations began using its OCHIN Epic EHR in the second quarter of 2024.
Nurses at Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital in Dover, Ohio, have approved a new three-year labor contract.
Compared to white and cisgender adolescents, Black youth and transgender and nonbinary adolescents are less likely to be admitted for patient care, according to a study published July 8 in JAMA Pediatrics.
A week after a study connected Ozempic and Wegovy to an eye condition that can cause partial blindness, two ophthalmology organizations said they have “been aware of other vision changes for some time.”
Two health systems were a “match made in heaven” when they collaborated to form a virtual care company that has already been a hit with patients.
