Below are seven hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers.

The Southern Nevada Health District declared an outbreak of West Nile virus Aug. 22 after the virus sickened 28 people, the highest total since the state first detected the disease in 2004, according to ABC affiliate KTNV.

About half of U.S. adolescents were up to date on HPV vaccination in 2018, marking a slight increase from the year prior, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Aug. 23.

CMS is seeking to simplify the process for validating hospital accreditation surveys, according to an Aug. 22 blog post from The Joint Commission.

Despite healthcare workers' negative attitudes toward an electronic hand hygiene monitoring system, hand hygiene compliance improved with its implementation, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices shared updated flu vaccine recommendations for the 2019-20 season in its most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Aug. 23.

A strain of salmonella that may be resistant to antibiotic treatment has sickened over 250 people in 32 states, the CDC announced Aug. 22.

Tuberculosis rates declined by nearly half from 2007 to 2017, but racial and geographic disparities remain among certain populations, according to a study published Aug. 21 in The Lancet and reported by STAT.

Cuba experienced an undetected Zika outbreak in 2017, about a year after officials declared the public health emergency over, according to a study published in Cell and cited by The New York Times.

Seniors leaders failed to promptly address "long-standing deficient conditions" and safety concerns at West Palm Beach VA Medical Center, which may have contributed to a patient's suicide in early 2019, according to an Aug. 22 report from the VA Office of Inspector General.

A group of scientists, policy experts and biotech leaders launched a coalition Aug. 21 to combat superbugs.

Nearly 2 million healthcare professionals do not feel they have the resources and training needed to achieve zero harm in their workplace, according to a new survey from The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare.

State health officials have placed six employees on leave amid an investigation into patient abuse claims at Boston-based Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, reports 7 News Boston.

WellSpan York (Pa.) Hospital has created a five-minute dance video for pregnant women in labor, according to a WPMT, Fox 43, a Fox-affiliated TV station.

Low levels of support staffing for nurses, such as licensed practical nurses and nurse's aides, as well as low registered nurse staffing levels are linked to an increase in patient deaths, according to a study published in BMJ Quality & Safety.

Twenty emergency room nurses were the first to graduate from a New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health program that certifies sexual assault nurse examiners, Northwell Health announced Aug. 21, according to Newsday.

A Massachusetts resident has been diagnosed with Powassan virus, a rare and potentially deadly tick-borne illness, public health officials announced Aug. 21, according to ABC affiliate WCVB.

A patient at Camp Hill, Pa.-based Geisinger Holy Spirit hospital has been charged with assaulting two staff members, according to Fox affiliate WPMT.

Texas cities are increasingly likely to have large measles outbreaks due to rising numbers of unvaccinated children in private and public schools, according to a study published Aug. 21 in JAMA Network Open and reported in Science Daily.

The Joint Commission will accept nominations for the 2019 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award through Oct. 1.