The New Jersey Health Department confirmed the 11th death linked to an ongoing adenovirus outbreak at Wanaque (N.J.) Center for Rehabilitation, reports Reuters.

Fewer than 30 percent of Dayton (Ohio) Children's Hospital patients had a flu shot in 2017, prompting the hospital to provide them for children age 7 and up at its pharmacies, according to the Dayton Daily News.

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health has seen significant improvements in surgical outcomes since implementing SeamlessMD's Optimal Care platform for cardiac patients.

In the week ending Nov. 10, 35 states reported sporadic influenza activity; three states reported regional activity; 10 states reported local flu activity; and two states reported no activity, according to the CDC's most recent FluView report. 

St. Johnsbury-based Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital is rethinking where, how and by whom mental health patients will be cared for, according to VTDigger.

A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology examined the risk factors associated with recurrent Staphylococcus aureus incidence in neonatal intensive care units.

The number of Americans without health insurance was 28.5 million in the first six months of 2018, 20.1 million less than when the ACA was signed into law in 2010, according to CDC data cited by Bloomberg.

A method borrowed from software development, called 'agile implementation,' helped significantly reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in a hospital setting, according to a study to be published in American Journal of Infection Control.

Although people age 65 and older make up just 16 percent of the U.S. population, they make up about 40 percent of hospitalized adults — and hospitals should focus more on designing their facilities with elderly patients in mind, a physician wrote in a…

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine cut hospital readmissions by one-quarter in the first year of a new type of contract with health insurer Independence Blue Cross, according to Philly.com.