An immediate jeopardy designation by CMS represents "the most severe and egregious threat to the health and safety of recipients, as well as carries the most serious sanctions" — but, even if a hospital is cited for such an event…
Integration & Physician Issues
A Michigan pulmonary and sleep physician died June 3 after being hit by a vehicle, MLive reported June 5.
Los Angeles-based USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics researchers found comparing physicians to their peers can improve job satisfaction and performance in quality care.
A physician accused of misdiagnosing possibly up to 600 patients at the Tomah (Wis.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been terminated, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported June 8.
Details are emerging about three Mayo Clinic employees at a lab in Phoenix who were exposed to deadly bacteria in 2021 known as Burkholderia pseudomallei — sometimes called Whitmore’s disease. It is the same bacteria the CDC issued an endemic…
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Manchester, N.H.-based Catholic Medical Center may make leadership and internal quality changes based on the findings of an internal report prompted by a newspaper's investigation, New Hampshire Public Radio reported June 7.
Few internal medicine physicians enter the field intending to work in medically underserved areas of the U.S., but a new study sheds light on what draws in the ones who choose to do so.
The physician shortage in the U.S. is common knowledge. Why don't more donors put their money toward tuition for people to become physicians?
Similar to what the nursing industry is seeing, a growing group of U.S. physicians are taking a gig approach to employment and ditching the traditional path of working for a health system or practice.
A home invasion and shooting in Beaverton, Mich., led to the lockdown 25-bed MyMichigan Medical Center Gladwin the morning of June 6.