A new name debuted by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists is confusing for patients, creates discord in the healthcare setting and amounts to medical title misappropriation, the American Society of Anesthesiologists said Aug. 14.
Leadership & Management
Members of the Medical Center of South Arkansas general medical staff have taken a second no-confidence vote in the El Dorado-based hospital's leadership, specifically calling out CEO Scott Street, according to the News-Times.
Fewer payment models and a closer link between outcomes and health equity will guide CMS' strategy during the next decade, leaders wrote in an Aug. 12 blog post published in Health Affairs.
For women, breaking into a male-dominated field is just part of the battle. Once they arrive, they may encounter scarcity in mentorship and "office housekeeper" or "mother figure" stereotypes, according to an Aug. 11 Market Watch report.
As of Aug. 12, Mississippi's COVID-19 hospitalization rate ranked fourth highest in the nation, with hospitalizations up 136 percent in the past 14 days.
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More than 25 percent of patients at Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital has tested positive for COVID-19, the hospital reported Aug. 10.
Otis Nelson Glover Jr., who served as an executive at Buffalo (N.Y.) General Hospital for 13 years, has died at age 72, according to an Aug. 9 Buffalo News report.
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine opened The Center for Transgender Health in 2017. Here's who leads the center and how the center is doing, according to an Aug. 10 Baltimore Sun report.
"We want to be disruptors," Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital CEO John Couris told Becker's Aug. 3. "We want to invest in our physician scientists, and we want to invest in businesses nationally and globally."
Seattle Children's Hospital employees and the Washington Black Lives Matter Alliance are calling for the resignation of the hospital's CEO and board chair following an investigation into systemic racism at the hospital.