Minot, N.D.-based Trinity Health will not return clinical or administrative services to its St. Joseph’s Hospital following a Jan. 3 mechanical incident at the facility, President and CEO John Kutch said in a message shared with Becker’s. The health system…
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The impact of pulmonary diseases on other chronic conditions is often misunderstood and commonly underreported. More than half the Americans with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have not been diagnosed, and these conditions often intersect with other polychronic ailments. This…
Several major health systems across Wisconsin and Michigan have closed outpatient clinics and are rescheduling elective procedures as a winter storm system moves through the region. A snowstorm that began March 15 brought blizzard-like conditions to much of the Upper…
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health’s Katz Institute for Women’s Health has opened a menopause and midlife health center. The Northwell Health Physician Partners Center for Menopause and Midlife Health, based in Stony Brook, N.Y., is a 3,000-square-foot multidisciplinary facility…
Mayo Clinic Health System in Austin, Minn., plans to expand capacity in its progressive care unit by adding beds and transitioning some ICU beds to PCU care, according to a March 9 hospital news release shared with Becker’s. The change…
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Children are increasingly visiting hospital emergency departments nationwide for dental issues amid shrinking access to pediatric dental care, KFF Health News reported March 10. Five notes: 1. ED visits for dental issues unrelated to physical trauma increased by 57.9% among…
By 2023, 60% of rural counties and 38% of urban counties did not have any hospital-based obstetric services, according to the University of Minnesota’s Rural Health Research Center report. The “Availability of Hospital-Based Obstetric Services in the United States by…
Novant Health, a 19-hospital system headquartered in Winston-Salem, N.C., has partnered with the North Carolina State Health Plan — which is administered by Aetna — to expand access to “no-cost surgical care” for hundreds of thousands of plan members across…
A discharge lounge boom is on the horizon, yet many systems are struggling to find the best practices for implementation. Discharge lounges are specialized spaces that give patients a quiet place to relax during the discharge process while hospitals turn…
With the U.S. physician shortage projected to surpass 137,000 by 2037, improving patient access cannot rely on pushing physicians to see more patients, according to a Feb. 26 McKinsey article. In McKinsey’s 2025 Physician Survey, 83% of physicians said they…