Clinician burnout has been an issue for years, and is a complex, systemic problem. Evidence tells us that it decreases the quality of care and damages the patient experience. Fixing it will take more than just improving the electronic health…

The emergency department at the Indian Health Service hospital on the Rosebud (S.D.) Sioux Indian Reservation is facing scrutiny from CMS, which surveyed the hospital in late July, the Rapid City Journal reports. The inspection results were not immediately available.

Henry Ford Health System embarked on its first "direct to employer" healthcare contract with General Motors to provide care and wellness services to more than 24,000 salaried GM employees and their families, the Detroit-based health system announced Aug. 6.

Female patients are less likely than males to survive the years after a heart attack, even after age is accounted for — and a recent study found this is partly due to the gender of the physicians who treat them, The Atlantic…

After a series of overnight shootings that left two people dead and several others injured, Chicago-based John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital limited the number of trauma victims' families and friends entering the emergency room, NBC Chicago reports.

The CDC confirmed rat lungworm infection, which can cause meningitis in humans, in 12 people between 2011 and 2017 — raising questions about how common  the parasitic infection is.

A nurse at Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was stabbed in the leg while trying to protect her patient, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. 

Ibuprofen can be safely administered to children younger than 6 months old, according to a study published in Plos One.

Opioid-related deaths and incarcerations are affecting children across Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana at soaring rates, according to the 2017 Child Well-Being Survey published August 3.

After receiving concerns about how noise negatively affected patient sleep and staff stress levels, nurses from Manhasset, N.Y,-based North Shore University Hospital created an initiative to reduce noise levels in the hospital's neurosurgical intensive care unit — and small changes…