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When the Covid-19 pandemic started, it reminded us how we all depended on our nurses. From the first day of the pandemic and until now, we still depend on them.
Our nation's 4.3 million registered nurses work on every aspect of health care and are very crucial in delivering care, evolving health care systems locally and nationally. But, because of the pandemic nursing shortages are already rampant in our...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is responsible for safety regulations. It is ill-equipped to enforce them.
Despite a recent spike in Covid transmission in hospitals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is unlikely to issue meaningful penalties, according to policy experts. | Mario Tama/Getty Images
Cathy Kornman is a nurse in Atlanta who cares for patients recovering from...
Joy Lee and Dan Pfeifle arrived early for the June, 2019, meeting of the American Medical Association, where they were helping to lead a gathering of the A.M.A’s medical-student delegation. The medical students usually assembled early to discuss priorities, but this year they had an additional reason to strategize: they had decided that they would try to persuade the A.M.A.’s governing body, the House of Delegates, to end the...
The pandemic dramatically disrupted cancer screenings, and thousands of lives are now at stake.
Steve Serrao, chief of gastroenterology at a hospital in Moreno Valley, California, just lived through the fourth wave of Covid-19 with the omicron variant sweeping across the country . Patients in respiratory distress once again filled the hospital’s beds.
But it is another wave, one...
If all hospitals performed similarly to those on the top 250 list, on average, 160,256 lives could be saved, Healthgrades says.
Healthgrades has released its list of the 250, 100 and 50 best hospitals for clinical excellence.
The list of 250 represent the top 5% in the nation for 2022. When culled down to a list of the top 100 and top 50, these hospitals represent the top 2% and 1%, respectively,...
A new study finds that people hospitalized with COVID-19 have an increased risk of death or readmission afterward.
The risk of death post-hospitalization is highest for individuals with preexisting dementia.
Also, the risk of death from any cause is 4–5 times higher after release from the hospital for people with COVID-19, compared with the general population.
People hospitalized with other diseases are about...
AFTER A RETAIL CLINIC opens, people who live nearby are less likely to visit the emergency room for minor health issues like the flu, a new research letter suggests.
Retail clinics – health clinics located in stores such as Walgreens, CVS and Walmart – began offering basic primary care services like flu shots and diabetes monitoring on a walk-in basis in the early 2000s. The clinics usually have fixed prices and...