Nearly one-third of newly licensed nurse practitioners in four states were educated at for-profit programs in 2024, up from 2.4% in 2010, a recent study found. The study, published Oct. 6 in Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed 117,156 nurse practitioners…

The CDC has implemented measures to identify and assess travelers from the Russian region where a woman may have died from pneumonic plague, ABC News reported Oct. 8.  The agency said about 200 travelers from that region come to the…

As health systems push deeper into the ambulatory setting, many are assembling medical groups at a scale and speed that tempts leaders to run everything from headquarters.  Sean Tedjarati, MD, sees it differently. As executive vice president, chief physician ambulatory…

Nearly three decades after researchers first documented that surgeons are paid more for male-specific procedures than comparable female-specific ones, the gap has barely narrowed, and experts say it is now shaping how hospitals allocate operating room time, Vox reported Oct.…

UnitedHealthcare recently sent letters to members across the country mistakenly informing them that eight physicians had died, as first reported by The Minnesota Star Tribune on Oct. 7. According to the report, letters claiming the deaths of two Minnesota physicians…

HHS has launched four agencywide actions targeting vaccine injuries, including a new National Institutes of Health clinic for patients reporting health problems after vaccination and a proposed CMS policy to pay physicians for reporting suspected injuries. Six things to know:…

Patients at for-profit hospitals had higher 30-day mortality and readmission rates than patients at nonprofit hospitals, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in Philadelphia. Nurses at for-profit hospitals were also more…

A coalition of Texas health systems, professional organizations and community groups has launched a five-year plan to eliminate cervical cancer in the state. The Texas Lone Star Cervical Cancer Elimination Plan 2027-2032 was developed by the Cancer Alliance of Texas…

Hospitals’ use of two high-yield practices for preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections, commonly known as CAUTIs, has stalled or slipped since 2017, according to research published Oct. 6 in JAMA Network Open.  Researchers at the VA Ann Arbor (Mich.) Healthcare…

A bedside nurse facing competing demands may have to weigh spending their time building a discharge plan for one patient against attending to another patient’s immediate needs. But at Owensboro Health, much of that first job now goes to a…