MedStar Washington (D.C.) Hospital Center is closing the gap on maternal and infant health disparities with a new program, The Washington Post reported Jan. 21.

Grand Forks, N.D.-based Altru Health System is working to prevent behavioral health crises before they happen and opened a new health center to keep care in the community, the Grand Forks Herald reported Jan. 16.

Clinicians should screen women 65 and older for bone density and osteoporosis, according to  the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. 

Elon Musk said a third person has received his Neuralink implant and plans to give it to 20 to 30 more people this year, U.S. News & World Report reported Jan. 13.

After an HCA Healthcare hospital discovered fractures on four infant patients in 2023, the Virginia health department found reporting deficiencies, and in 2024, three more infants had similar fractures, according to The Washington Post. 

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital has lacked adequate pharmacy staffing for years, resulting in harmful medication errors, according to the Asheville Watchdog. 

Up to one-third of patients with critical injuries are first taken to the closest non-trauma-specialized hospital before being transferred to a higher-level trauma center. But these transfers can take hours and lead to preventable deaths, a recent study found.

Tampa General Hospital performed the world's first in-human pancreas transplant with a new technology that preserved the organ.

In its first six months of operation, Lexington, Ky.-based UK HealthCare's EmPATH unit helped more than 1,800 patients and reduced emergency department readmissions.

The Women's Choice Award has recognized 457 hospitals on its annual list of the Best Hospitals for Patient Safety.

Plain language announcements may improve hospital staff responses to nonclinical emergencies compared to traditional coded messages, according to a new nurse-led study from Cleveland Clinic.

UCHealth, based in Aurora, Colo., has launched one of the first whole blood programs in the state. 

In 2024, nurses filed hundreds of safety concerns about two Massachusetts hospitals operated by Dallas-based Tenet Health. Most recently, a union representing these nurses alleged that understaffing caused two preventable patient deaths. 

An HCA Healthcare hospital in Richmond, Va., is temporarily suspending admissions to its neonatal intensive care unit after discovering three infants with what the hospital called "unexplainable fractures" in late November and December. 

A New York system is rescheduling Dec. 26 in-person appointments at its health and wellness plaza because of a water main break. 

A team at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center set an institutional record by transplanting 10 kidneys in two days using a 20-person chain. 

I spent more than twenty years as a Corporate Director of Infection Prevention for an Integrated Health Care Delivery Network (IDN). During that time, I learned a great deal about managing infection prevention and about corporate leadership culture and priorities. My job was to secure senior leadership support for the major initiatives my team wanted to execute to reduce infection risk. Over the years, communicating the financial impact of our proposals became more fundamental to securing approval due to the increasing financial and operational challenges our organization faced.

In states with total abortion bans, federal law requires physicians to provide an abortion if it stabilizes an emergency condition, but hospitals are leaving physicians to fend for themselves to navigate this "minefield," according to a Senate Finance Committee report. 

In an interactive session at Becker's 12th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable, two leaders from Illumina — Mike Kreitzinger, lead of health system strategy, and Damon Hostin, lead of market access for health systems — facilitated a discussion with Tom Mikkelsen, MD, medical director of the precision medicine program and clinical trials at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health.

2024 marked a big year for the field of xenotransplantation, with surgical teams at several health systems completing historic procedures that could pave the way for broader adoption of animal-to-human organ transplants.