The federal government must come up with a bipartisan solution to improve the quality of rural healthcare, according to Tom Daschle, a former Democratic senator and the cofounder of the Bipartisan Policy Center, and Tom Tauke, a former Republican congressman and cofounder of the House Rural Health Coalition.

Georgia has reported its first case of West Nile virus for the 2019 season, according to CBS affiliate WTOC.

All students from kindergarten through seventh grade, as well as twelfth grade, are now required to have two doses of the hepatitis A vaccine, according to NBC affiliate WTHR.

The University of Texas at Tyler is expanding its School of Nursing by offering classes during the summer and increasing its enrollment by 180 students every 12 months, according to a university announcement released on Aug. 15 and reported by The Longview News-Journal.

Ebola has spread to a third province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this week after two patients tested positive for the disease in the Mwenga area of South Kivu, according to The New York Times.

Health officials have reported a rise in severe lung injuries that could be linked to vaping in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, according to CNN.

Patients placed "off-service" in wards specializing in areas of care they do not require have longer hospital stays and a higher chance of being readmitted within 30 days of discharge, according to a study published in the upcoming Informs journal Management Science.

Congress should pass a proposed bill to improve healthcare access for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities, wrote Jo Ann Simons, president and CEO of Northeast Arc, an organization serving people with I/DD, in an op-ed for The Hill.

People tend to withhold information about imminent health threats they are facing, such as suicidal thoughts or sexual assault, from their clinicians, citing being embarrassed as one reason for not disclosing the information, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Northwell Health is expanding its substance use screening protocol to include inpatients across 12 of its hospitals in the New York area.

The CDC released three new online courses in infection prevention developed by a team led by the American Hospital Association's Health Research & Educational Trust.

A state law in Virginia allows patients with dementia to be involuntarily committed to state psychiatric hospitals if they are deemed to be a threat to others or themselves, a phenomenon also seen in several other states, according to The Virginian-Pilot.

Thousands of anti-vaccine advocates flooded a New York court house Aug. 14 in support of a lawsuit to block the state's new law banning religious exemptions for school vaccinations, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Burundi is the latest country to start vaccinating health workers as a preventive measure against Ebola.

Massachusetts health officials on Aug. 10 confirmed the state's first human case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus since 2013.

A clinical trial has had a 90 percent success rate in treating the deadliest strain of tuberculosis, which is resistant to the four types of antibiotics typically used to fight the disease, according to The New York Times.

Incidents involving retained foreign objects were the most common sentinel event in the first half of 2019, according to data The Joint Commission released Aug. 14.

Hospitals' adherence to surgical volume standards does not always correlate with better patient outcomes, suggest the findings of a study published in JAMA Surgery.

An increase in body mass index increases the likelihood of developing surgical site infections, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Patient well-being is naturally a top priority for health systems. However, leading organizations are increasingly turning their attention to the environmental impact of their operations.