The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether an air ambulance pilot fell asleep while transporting a patient to a Boston-area hospital, reports CBS affiliate WBZ.

Las Vegas-based Montevista Hospital will lose CMS funding Aug. 14 after failing to make the necessary changes to resolve its "immediate jeopardy" status, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The response rate to monitor alarms among nurses in a pediatric hospital unit was low, a study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found.

Franciscan Health Hammond (Ind.) unveiled its first Safe Haven Baby Box Aug. 7, which provides a last resort for women in crisis to discreetly and safely deposit their babies, according to The Chicago Tribune.

Tennessee's Medicaid program has launched an effort to better integrate patients' physical and mental healthcare, with the aim of saving state and federal money and improving patient care, according to NPR.

Viruses transmitted by ticks and mosquitos are increasing in the U.S., with West Nile virus seeing the largest jump, according to the CDC's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Healthmark Industries is delighted to introduce the Instrument Inspection Tips to its ProSys™ Instrument Care product line.

Katie Logan, vice president of patient experience at Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare, discusses the health system's experience strategy, the roadblocks in the way of executing that strategy and why personalization in healthcare is a key untapped opportunity.

Six cancer patients at Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center developed a rare bacterial infection after a nurse gave them opioid injections diluted with tap water, according to a report published Aug. 7 in The New England Journal of…

An infant has contracted the first measles case in San Diego County this year.