For a closer look at efforts to improve patient outcomes, Becker's Hospital Review asked organizations included on U.S. News & World Report's 2020-21 Best Hospitals rankings for cancer care to share changes that brought about those improvements in the last year. Read their responses below, presented alphabetically. 

Seventy-one percent of children with the multisystem inflammatory syndrome linked to COVID-19 were admitted to the intensive care unit, a new review shows.

As part of an ongoing series, Becker's is talking to healthcare leaders who plan to speak at the first Becker's Healthcare Clinical Leadership Virtual Event Sept. 9-10.

COVID-19 cases in the U.S. nearly quadrupled over the summer, rising by more than 6.2 million cases between Memorial Day weekend and Sept. 8. according to data tracked by The Washington Post. The number of Americans who died of COVID-19 rose from 100,000 to more than 186,000 over the same time period, according to the Post.

The national percentage of positive COVID-19 tests increased slightly in the week ending Aug. 29 after declining since mid-July, according to the CDC's weekly COVIDView report. 

A patient at the Washington DC VA Medical Center was diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease Sept. 2, reports The Washington Post.

The world has entered "a pandemic era" in which humans' impact on the environment may cause new infectious diseases to emerge more frequently, Anthony Fauci, MD, and his colleague David Morens, MD, wrote in an article for Cell.

Below are six hospitals or health systems that recently posted job listings seeking chief medical officers.

COVID-19 patients may have antibodies up to four months after contracting the virus, according to an Icelandic study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. 

A COVID-19 outbreak at Hartford HealthCare's Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., has been linked to an isolated individual from a local nursing home, Donna Handley, hospital president, confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review Sept. 4.

The U.S. reported an average of 40,530 cases daily in the past week, down 12 percent from the average seen two weeks ago, reports The New York Times.

COVID-19 deaths are on the rise in 10 U.S. states, according to The New York Times.

Eighteen states are reporting increases in new cases of COVID-19; 11 states are reporting a drop, and 21 states and Washington, D.C., are seeing cases stabilize as of 7:53 a.m. CDT Sept. 4, according to The New York Times.

A former spokesperson for the Iowa Department of Public Health claims the state made "a deliberate effort to thwart open communication" about COVID-19 in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed Sept. 3, reports The New York Times.

As part of an ongoing series, Becker's is talking to healthcare leaders who plan to speak at the first Becker's Healthcare Clinical Leadership Virtual Event Sept. 9-10.

Stories about nurses on the front lines captured readers' attention this summer, along with leadership advice and the legal ramifications some have had to face.

As part of an ongoing series, Becker's is talking to healthcare leaders who plan to speak at the first Becker's Healthcare Clinical Leadership Virtual Event Sept. 9-10.

Kidneys from dead donors with hepatitis C infection can be safely transplanted into recipients without the infection when treatment with antiviral drugs is used soon after the transplant, results from a clinical trial show.

New research shows that mental health symptoms are strongly associated with avoiding medical care amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

After declining since late July, the nation's seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases has plateaued in the last two weeks, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project.