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Ascension has reached its highest nurse retention rate in five years — 81.96% — aided by its employee feedback tool Always On Listening, or AOL. The tool helps address the “pebbles” in people’s shoes, according to Rob Rose, DNP, RN,…
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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Health System plans to close six clinics across southeastern Minnesota and transition care to other locations by Dec. 10, according to The Minnesota Star Tribune. The health system cited staffing shortages and declining patient volumes in…
Amazon Pharmacy has expanded its RxPass service to Texas, allowing Amazon Prime members in the state, including those on Medicare, to receive over 50 generic medications for $5 per month through the prescription subscription service. Medications covered include those to…
Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare utilized agentic AI to improve its CMS star measuring rating for blood pressure control from 1-star to 4 stars, according to an abstract presented Sept. 7 at the American Heart Association’s 2025 Scientific Sessions. The study enrolled…
New Britain, Conn.-based Hospital for Special Care will upgrade its EHR to Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise 25.1 and expanded its use of the platform under a renewed agreement that extends through 2032. The long-term acute care hospital will implement the…
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Philadelphia-based Temple University Hospital has achieved twin milestones in the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Care teams from the Advanced Pulmonary Hypertension, Right Heart Failure and CTEPH program at Temple’s Heart and Vascular Institute have completed their 500th pulmonary…
Around the time when West Texas declared its measles outbreak over, the CDC published a measles assessment tool for infection control in healthcare settings. The assessment, rolled out Aug. 18, is intended to aid health departments and healthcare facilities in…