Traveling nurse Tonya Broughton jumped into action Sept. 4, after she found herself in the middle of a car chase in Nashville, Tenn., that ended in a fatal shooting and crash, according to WZTV Fox17. 

Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary's Regional Medical Center, both in Lewiston, Maine, are pledging to revise policies and increase staff education after turning away mental health patients from the emergency room, which is a form of patient dumping…

Medicaid paid for about 2 in 5 births, or 43 percent of all deliveries, in 2017, according to recent data from the CDC.

Product design and testing of health information technology systems should begin with the end in mind to improve the user experience. Ross Teague, Ph.D., director of user experience at Allscripts, shares six points his organization follows to ensure that products…

Portland, Ore.-based OHSU's heart transplant program will remain inactive until the program's staffing needs are met, system officials said in a prepared statement Aug. 31. The extension went into effect the same day.

A story about a nurse getting stabbed while protecting a patient at a Philadelphia hospital most captured readers' attention in August.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo seems to be waning, according to The New York Times.

Twenty-seven states fall below the national average for appropriate sepsis care, according to sepsis performance data added to CMS' Hospital Compare website in July.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children receive the injectable flu vaccine for the upcoming season, instead of the nasal spray vaccine FluMist, according to STAT.

Hospital rankings and ratings tools should let patients assess organizations based on the quality measures that fit their needs and preferences, according to an analysis by the nonprofit research organization RAND Corp.