In today’s environment of increasing margin pressure, hospital executives are constantly looking for ways to manage costs while ensuring clinical quality and patient safety. As they confront the cost/quality conundrum, hospital and health system leaders routinely weigh whether to outsource important hospital-based physician services such as emergency medicine, hospital medicine, anesthesiology and other service lines to a trusted third-party partner or take in-house ownership of those practices.

Here are eight medical schools that are allowing students to graduate early to join the healthcare workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hospitals and health systems should look at five main areas to ensure they are fully supporting clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an article published in JAMA.

More than 100 physician organizations wrote a letter urging HHS to provide one month of revenue to each physician, nurse practitioner and physician assistant enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid to account for financial hardships brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

As medical schools allow students to become more involved in fighting the COVID-19 surge, the American Medical Association is advising that students be allowed to decide whether they work directly with coronavirus patients.

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing physicians to ration care for patients who do not have COVID-19, Emile Bacha, MD, a New York City-based surgeon wrote in a letter to friends and colleagues, CNN reports.

Physicians are urging Congress to consider a bill to support physicians and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A physician at Montefiore Medical Center in New York claims she was handed a bag of personal protective equipment that included a plastic rain poncho in place of a medical gown, according to The New York Times. But the hospital has said it was intended as a gift, for personal use.

A new study conducted in China found a link between healthcare workers who tested positive for COVID-19 and working the night shift.

Nearly a quarter of respondents in a new weekly survey of primary care practices reported that their practice may need to temporarily close due to COVID-19.

Healthcare organizations and providers in New York have gained immunity from civil and criminal liability during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An emergency room physician at East Orange (N.J.) General Hospital died April 1 from COVID-19 complications, according to a statement from the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Nearly 1 in 3 licensed physicians in the U.S. are older than 60 years, placing them in the age range that is particularly vulnerable to developing severe cases of COVID-19, according to a new study.

Harvard Medical School's COVID-19 Health Literacy Project has translated essential information about COVID-19, including prevention and potential treatments, into 37 languages to reduce the risk of infection for non-English speakers in the U.S., STAT reports.

Hundreds of medical students formed a volunteer network in Minnesota to help healthcare workers with any personal needs, like child care or grocery shopping, reports STAT.

Thirteen medical schools in New York state intend to allow students to graduate early to join the fight against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, Associated Medical Schools of New York President and CEO Jo Wiederhorn told The Wall Street Journal.

Robert Femia, MD, chair of the department of emergency medicine, advised NYU Langone's emergency department physicians they have "sole discretion" to put patients on ventilators and the system’s backing to "withhold futile intubations," according to a March 28 email reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

Creating triage committees, responsible for allocating ventilators in hospitals facing a shortage, can help shield clinicians from having to make those distressing decisions, three clinicians from Harvard Medical School in Boston and Boston Children's Hospital argue.

The American Medical Association created a guide for retired physicians who are rejoining the workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

An emergency room physician at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Wash., was removed from his position after denouncing the hospital's protections against the novel coronavirus, The Seattle Times reports.