Eight of 10 hospitals in the U.S. that have faced a possible loss of Medicare or Medicaid funding from CMS in the last year due to immediate jeopardy situations have regained compliance. However, the hospitals facing these situations are not…
Integration & Physician Issues
Dell Children's Medical Center is parting ways with the physicians who staffed its adolescent medicine clinic amid a state probe into the hospital's transgender care practices, the Austin-based hospital confirmed to Becker's May 15.
Additional federal funding is needed to train more Black physicians and diversify the healthcare workforce, the leaders of several historically Black medical schools said during a May 12 roundtable discussion at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.
Artificial intelligence algorithms and machine learning technology have increased in medical devices in the last several years, and some specialties are taking to the trend faster than others.
The percentage of U.S. medical school applicants and graduates coming from higher-income households is increasing, according to a study published May 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Chesapeake (Va.) Regional Healthcare held a "Healthcare Violence Prevention Fair" to teach workers de-escalation tips in early May after an increase in Code Greens, according to ABC affiliate WVEC.
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte vetoed a bill that would require Warm Springs-based Montana State Hospital to report all cases of neglect, abuse, injuries and death to a watchdog group, Montana Public Radio reported May 11.
Stanford Medicine Children's Health in Palo Alto, Calif., has been named a Rare Disease Center of Excellence by the National Organization for Rare Disorders, according to a May 11 news release.
Iowa will no longer require that a physician assistant be supervised by a physician to practice medicine.
An analysis of more than 198,000 tweets from emergency medicine physicians found an increase in language around anxiety, stress and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic.