Health systems and hospitals are leaning on training programs to bring more physicians into leadership roles. Last year, Becker’s found many systems grappling with a physician leadership shortage. Leaders said residents and new physicians seemed uninterested in leadership, teaching and…

The CDC said the clade IIb mpox virus is likely to become endemic in the U.S. in an Aug. 20 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “Persistent transmission of [mpox] in the United States, with wide geographic spread during the last…

When FMOL Health in Baton Rouge, La., began pushing ambient listening technology across its clinical teams roughly 18 months ago, the physician side was the primary focus. Nursing was separate and the technology needed adjustments to fit into their complex,…

Ruston, La.-based Northern Louisiana Medical Center has until Oct. 1 to correct patient care deficiencies or lose its Medicare funding, according to CBS and ABC affiliate KNOE.  The 130-bed hospital, operated by Shreveport, La.-based Allegiance Health Management, must submit an…

A leadership lesson from Dolly Parton about human worth, flourishing and the value healthcare creates A while ago, I wrote that healthcare needs more Swifties. That remains true. Taylor Swift has created something healthcare desperately needs: belonging, community and the…

Americans’ confidence in their healthcare providers remained high, but confidence in the CDC, FDA and National Institutes of Health dropped by about 12 percentage points, a University of Pennsylvania survey found. The Annenberg Science and Public Health survey, conducted by…

The physician gender pay gap has remained steady at 26% overall for two years in a row, Doximity found. Doximity, a digital platform for U.S. medical professionals, released its 2026 Physician Compensation Report Aug. 25. The report surveyed physicians in…

When LeWanza Harris, MD, chief quality officer of Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, dug deeper into the system’s sepsis data last year, the metrics told a story of fragmentation across the system’s 11 hospitals. “The performance was inconsistent and in places low,”…

A medication mix-up at Ascension St. Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville, Tenn., severely harmed four surgical patients and placed the hospital in immediate jeopardy on three CMS conditions of participation, a state survey found. On Aug. 14, four patients undergoing…

New residents arrive with clinical training but often without day-one fluency in the practical skills that drive patient safety: documentation, order entry, handoffs and knowing when to escalate. Quality leaders say the gap is real but rarely surfaces as a…