The inpatient beds at hospitals across the U.S. are filling up and in many regions, the surge is not slowing down. Adult inpatient discharges are expected to increase 10% through 2035, according to Sg2. By 2035, the U.S. could see…

Erie, Pa.-based Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and Jacksonville (Fla.) University opened the region’s first four-year medical school July 17. The $50 million facility is located within Jacksonville University’s Medical Mall, an innovative hub for healthcare education, training and…

For two years, nurses have battled artificial intelligence mostly at the bargaining table. A proposed set of AI billing codes has now opened a new front: how the technology is reimbursed. The American Medical Association is pushing to create billing…

Most patients treated at Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital during South Carolina’s recent measles outbreak were children 10 or younger, and at least 73% were unvaccinated, the health system’s physicians reported. In a research letter published in The New England…

The American Medical Association’s push to create new billing codes for autonomous AI is drawing concern from nursing leaders, who argue hospitals could soon be reimbursed for clinical work performed by algorithms while registered nurses remain excluded from direct payment…

The CDC has linked a five-state cyclosporiasis outbreak to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell and warned the public not to eat it, but the agency has not publicly named the supplier. The agency’s July 16 notice covers Taco…

Seven American aid workers are quarantined in the new U.S. isolation facility in Kenya, the first known people to use the facility, Reuters reported. The U.S. government is building the 50-bed bio-isolation unit designed for asymptomatic Americans exposed to the…

Health systems in some of the areas hardest hit by wildfire smoke are reporting varied effects on emergency department volumes: A few have seen a modest uptick in patients with respiratory symptoms, while others said an anticipated surge has yet…

On Aug. 3, Susan Carroll will become chief of clinical enterprise operations at Inova Health System — a role overseeing all five hospitals that she has, one by one, already run. That arc is rare. Ms. Carroll told Becker’s she…

A coalition of nine civil rights and healthcare advocacy organizations released a report Wednesday warning that federal funding cuts and new enrollment barriers will cause historic health insurance losses across the U.S., according to a news release shared with Becker’s.…