San Francisco-based UCSF Health has received the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation’s 2026 Employer Recognition Award. UCSF Health representatives were presented with the award May 15 at the Oncology Nursing Society’s annual meeting, according to a June 3 news release from…

Physician pay raises do not correlate to increases in happiness, data shows. Becker’s gathered data from Medscape’s “Physician Mental Health & Well-Being Report” in 2025 and 2026 and pay data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2024 to 2025…

Austin, Texas-based St. David’s HealthCare has completed 100,000 robotic-assisted surgical procedures, with the milestone operation performed at St. David’s North Austin Medical Center, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. The system performed its first robotic-assisted procedure in 2003.…

First-time, U.S.-educated candidates passed the National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nurses at an 86.6% rate in 2025, with results ranging from 99.4% in Vermont to 78.6% in Florida. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s annual “NCLEX Examination…

New York City-based NYU Langone Health opened NYU Langone Ambulatory Care—Patchogue, N.Y., July 13, a 54,000-square-foot facility that expands surgical and specialty care access across Suffolk County, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. The center features six operating…

In 2024, over 45,000 transplants were performed, and every 10 minutes, a patient was added to the transplant waiting list, according to a recent Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients report. “The OPTN/SRTR Annual Data…

Michigan’s cyclosporiasis outbreak has surpassed 2,600 cases, state health officials said July 13, making it the hardest-hit state in a national outbreak that has strained hospital lab testing. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported 2,640 total cases…

The Trump administration is blocking American citizens in the Democratic Republic of Congo from returning to the U.S. on commercial flights, a White House official told Becker’s. On July 13, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy signed an updated Title 42…

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has performed the first known quadruple-organ transplant involving retransplanted lungs in the U.S., the health system said in a July 14 news release. The recipient, 36-year-old Elizabeth Wehrle of Montezuma, Iowa, needed a rare four-organ transplant for…

Ohio became the 27th state to opt out of Medicare physician supervision requirements for certified registered nurse anesthetists. The change came with the passage of House Bill 52, which removed the requirement for CRNAs to practice under supervision. The bill…