Since 2017, 85 percent of Chicago-area hospitals directed ambulances to take patients to other hospitals, prompting a state investigation, according to the Chicago Tribune. 

About three-fourths of patients with vaping-related illnesses nationwide reported using products containing THC, according to CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Sept. 27. 

Nearly 100 physicians split from Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health last year to form an independent medical group called Tryon Medical Partners. Now, more physicians are joining the group, according to The Charlotte Observer.

A patient was injured when a car mistakenly accelerated through the front of a Wilmington, N.C.-based medical office Sept 27, according to WECT News. 

A little over half of U.S. adults plan on getting vaccinated this influenza season, according to data released by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

Below are six hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking patient experience leaders.

Nearly half of the patients participating in MD Anderson Cancer Center's tobacco treatment program achieved smoking cessation, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Below are eight hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking CMOs since Sept. 6.

Officials at Morehead City, N.C., based-Carteret Health Care have developed many new strategies to attract and retain qualified nurses amid a national nurse shortage that is expected to worsen, according to Carteret County News-Times. 

Fifty-four percent of research institutions funded by the National Institutes of Health failed to publish financial conflicts-of-interests policies online in 2018, sparking concerns that federal research may be susceptible to foreign influences, according to a Sept. 25 report from the HHS's…