Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers approved an emergency rule July 16 to allow qualified registered nurses without a master’s degree to teach clinical nursing courses, as part of a push to ease the state’s nursing workforce shortage. Mr. Evers announced the…
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Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health has purchased land to build a new $44 million Unicoi (Tenn.) County Hospital. The land purchase price was $2.5 million, a spokesperson for Ballad Health confirmed with Becker’s. The hospital will replace the original Unicoi…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has built its AI strategy around a portfolio of six initiatives spanning nurse scheduling, clinical documentation, maternal care and hospital discharge. Among the initiatives detailed in a Management in Healthcare: A Peer-Reviewed Journal piece republished July…
Female physicians working in Veterans Affairs emergency departments ordered more diagnostic tests and admitted more patients than male physicians working in the same EDs, according to a study published July 20 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers analyzed EHR data from…
HHS is signing onto President Donald Trump’s Genesis Mission, aligning departmentwide resources to apply AI to chronic disease research. The effort centers on the NIH-led Bio Genesis Mission, which aims to cut in half the time it takes scientific discoveries…
Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health has opened a mammography facility at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, also in Lebanon. The Mammography Imaging Center provides both screening and diagnostic services in one facility, according to a July 22 news release from Dartmouth…
Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. workers (24%), the equivalent of about 23 million adults, are staying in jobs they want to leave to keep their employer-sponsored health insurance, according to a July 21 report from the West Health-Gallup Center on…
Cookeville (Tenn.) Regional Medical Center has named Greg Anderson its new CFO, The UC Now reported July 21. Mr. Anderson joined Cookeville Regional July 6 and has more than 30 years of healthcare finance experience, according to the report. His…
Emergency departments carry the highest suicide-related risk of any non-acute care setting, according to a new analysis from ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices’ Patient Safety Organization. The analysis draws on 406 incident reports submitted by PSO members…
Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., introduced his “MediKids” bill July 21, which would promise healthcare coverage for those up to 26 years old. The law would amend the Social Security Act to make everyone under 26 eligible for Medicaid and to…