Integration & Physician Issues

In recent years, there has been an overwhelming discussion in the United States about cost containment in the era of the Affordable Care Act [1].

Coalinga (Calif.) State Hospital went into lockdown over the weekend following patients' protest over a new rule that restricts their use of electronic devices, according to Fox 26.

A video depicting a homeless man in a wheelchair who was reportedly discharged from Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Dignity Health-Dominican Hospital late at night Jan. 11 and left at a bus stop wearing nothing but a hospital gown has sparked a…

President Donald Trump underwent his first medical exam while in office Friday at Bethesda, Md.-based Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The exam was conducted by Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, MD, who has served as the official physician to the president…

Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD, told Becker's Hospital Review he had a lot to be thankful for last year, including being named the founding dean of Pasadena, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in October 2017.

A handful of Chicago-area hospitals have begun investing in infrastructure to keep their chronically homeless patients off the street. But the move represents more than just lowering inpatient costs at participating facilities, the Chicago Tribune reports.

A U.K. surgeon who pleaded guilty to two counts of assault by beating in December for branding his initials into the livers of two of his patients was sentenced Jan. 12 to pay a £10,000 (roughly $13,700) fine and serve…

At least 17 people have died and hundreds of homes have been damaged after torrential rains created mudslides in several Southern California communities that scrambled to escape wildfires just a few months ago, ABC News reports.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education granted Piedmont Athens (Ga.) Regional's transitional year residency program accreditation, according to the Athens Banner Herald.

The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, which represents accredited U.S. osteopathic medicine colleges, launched a new membership organization to encompass leaders in graduate medical education Jan. 1.