This season's flu shot may offer limited protection since two of the four strains included in the vaccine do not match the most dominant strains seen in the Southern Hemisphere's flu season, which ended in September, according to STAT. 

The death of a Phoenix hospital patient visited by an unknown man captured readers' attention the most in September.

October marks the three-year anniversary of Lakshmi Halasyamani, MD, stepping into her role as chief quality and transformation officer at Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center resumed elective surgeries Sept. 27 after the hospital suspended medical procedures due to mold contamination in a surgical equipment sterilization room, according to the Los Angeles Times.  

Since 2017, 85 percent of Chicago-area hospitals directed ambulances to take patients to other hospitals, prompting a state investigation, according to the Chicago Tribune. 

About three-fourths of patients with vaping-related illnesses nationwide reported using products containing THC, according to CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Sept. 27. 

A patient was injured when a car mistakenly accelerated through the front of a Wilmington, N.C.-based medical office Sept 27, according to WECT News. 

A little over half of U.S. adults plan on getting vaccinated this influenza season, according to data released by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

Below are six hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking patient experience leaders.

Nearly half of the patients participating in MD Anderson Cancer Center's tobacco treatment program achieved smoking cessation, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Below are eight hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking CMOs since Sept. 6.

Officials at Morehead City, N.C., based-Carteret Health Care have developed many new strategies to attract and retain qualified nurses amid a national nurse shortage that is expected to worsen, according to Carteret County News-Times. 

Fifty-four percent of research institutions funded by the National Institutes of Health failed to publish financial conflicts-of-interests policies online in 2018, sparking concerns that federal research may be susceptible to foreign influences, according to a Sept. 25 report from the HHS's Office of Inspector General. 

The 2019-20 flu season could complicate efforts to diagnose and track vaping-related lung illnesses in the U.S., health experts told STAT.

CMS is requiring hospitals to implement antibiotic stewardship and infection control programs under its Omnibus Burden Reduction final rule released Sept. 26, reports CIDRAP News.

Humans can contract tuberculosis from infected deer, according to the CDC's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Sept. 20.

Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center is suspending all elective surgeries and other medical procedures for about two weeks after discovering mold in a surgical equipment sterilization room, according to the Los Angeles Times. 

CMS finalized a rule Sept. 26 that revises discharge planning requirements for hospitals.

The number of vaping-related illnesses continues to rise in the U.S., with the CDC reporting 805 confirmed and probable cases as of Sept. 26.

The U.S is reporting the largest number of Eastern equine encephalitis cases in more than 50 years, according to STAT.