NYC Health + Hospitals is expanding a primary care scheduling program to its ambulatory care practices after using it successfully at its Bellevue location in New York City to cut new patient wait times by 73 percent and to help…

  Medical residents at the closing Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia are scrambling to find new training positions and secure work visas — and avoid thousands of dollars in fees associated with breaking their apartment leases, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

A study out of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic found burnout is associated with greater levels of implicit and explicit racial bias among physicians. 

St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare credits a systemwide quality improvement effort for the health system's dramatic reduction in patient harm events over the last decade, according to a study published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 

One Medical, a tech-based primary care medical group, is in growth mode. One investor says the company, valued at nearly $2 billion, could be "the Starbucks of primary care," according to CNBC.

Incorporating an intensive care unit within the emergency department helped Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine improve care and survival rates for its ED population, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Nurses at Children's Mercy in Kansas City, Mo., are experiencing a baby boom, with 36 births among nursing staff expected this year, according to KMBC-TV, an ABC affiliate.

As e-cigarettes have exploded in popularity among teens over the past two years, pediatricians are reporting extreme side effects more commonly associated with substance-abuse disorders, according to The Washington Post.

About 2 percent of women prescribed opioid painkillers around the time of childbirth show signs of persistent opioid use following initial prescription, according to a study published July 26 in JAMA Network Open and reported by STAT.

An emergency rule change requires Missouri health providers to report evidence of Legionnaires' disease within one day rather than the previous three-day period, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced this month, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.