Baton Rouge, La.-based Our Lady of the Lake Health has deployed a diagnostic tool capable of detecting sepsis within 10 minutes in the hopes of saving lives from what is often dubbed a "silent killer" in hospital environments — causing 1 in 3 hospital patient deaths. 

Twenty-two hospitals were named to U.S. News & World Report 2023-24 Best Regional Hospitals Honor Roll Aug. 1. 

Certified registered nurse anesthetist and geriatric nurse practitioner are the top-earning nurse professional positions, according to 2023 rankings by Nursing Process.

Health officials have recently started tracking EG.5, an omicron relative that accounts for an estimated 11.4 percent of U.S. COVID-19 cases. 

Cleveland Clinic has received more than $12 million from the Howley Foundation, a gift that will double the number of nurse scholars this fall. 

At Northwell Health, leaders don't discount the rare causes or sources of hospital-acquired infections.

CMS will increase payments to hospitals for treating homeless patients and implementing equitable quality measures aimed at reducing preventable harm, the agency said Aug. 1. 

Montana could soon eliminate continuing education requirements for its nurses, according to the Daily Montanan.

Almost 6 percent of U.S. adults — about to 20.1 million people —  are experiencing long COVID, according to the CDC's most recent data. 

Access to maternity care in the U.S. is dwindling for millions of women, according to a newly released March of Dimes report. 

After dozens of hospitals ended their masking policies, organizations are working to promote masking in healthcare again.

Health experts anticipate confusion over risk levels, COVID-19 fatigue and a number of other factors to hinder uptake of new vaccines this fall. Something that could help? Health officials and providers sharing the message that COVID-19 shots, like the flu shot, are likely to become routine, CNBC reported July 31. 

Nurses may be the first people to use the old airline advice about putting one's own oxygen mask on before helping others. 

Cases of leprosy are increasing in Central Florida, fueling a growing body of evidence that the condition has become endemic in the Southeastern U.S., according to the CDC.

While reiterating that hospitals continue to remain in a "state of recovery" even months after the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, CEO of the American Organization of Nursing Leaders, said healthcare has rounded the corner enough to see what's coming. 

Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis created a breath test that can identify people with COVID-19 infections in less than a minute. 

There's a plethora of factors propelling the upward trend of hospital-acquired infections and outbreaks, meaning hospitals' prevention efforts need to be complex, too, experts told Becker's. 

The death toll has risen to nine Americans in an ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak linked to clinics in Mexico that more than 208 U.S. citizens traveled to for cosmetic procedures.

South Texas College in McAllen is the first college in the nation to offer a registered apprenticeship program for nursing, the organization said July 31. 

Emerging from one of the hottest months on record, concerns are mounting from experts over how rising temperatures could also mean a rise of instances of fungal and brain eating amoeba infections.