West Palm Beach, Fla.-based HCA Florida JFK North Hospital has named Sandhya Henry, BSN, RN, vice president of quality. Ms. Henry joined the hospital in 2022 as director of patient safety and risk management and succeeds Cary Estes, who joined…

Certified registered nurse anesthetists in Vermont can now deliver anesthesia care without physician supervision. In a July 2 letter, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott told CMS the state will opt-out of federal physician supervision requirements, making it the 26th state to…

Dubai Health and Chicago-based Rush University System for Health entered a strategic collaboration July 10 to advance care, patient safety and clinical education across both academic health systems. The collaboration covers clinical programs and care models, quality and patient safety,…

Men were more likely than women to receive a late-stage diagnosis for 16 cancer sites between 2015 and 2022, according to a study published July 1 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute analyzed 2,401,772…

Electrophysiology is one of the fastest-growing subspecialties across the nation, hospital leaders told Becker’s, thanks to a number of factors that are changing the field. Electrophysiology is a unique specialty within cardiology due to how many areas of patient care…

Health systems are squandering the research potential of nurses who split their time between the bedside and the lab, a Penn Nursing scholar argued in a letter published July 4 in The Lancet. Kathryn Connell, PhD, RN, an assistant professor…

Worldwide, about one in five people will develop cancer during their lifetime, according to a report published July 8 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.  Led by researchers at the American Cancer Society and the World Health Organization’s International…

At Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System, nurses are an integral part of AI tool co-design and implementation, especially the skeptics and hesitant users. If front-line workers are not a part of AI tool co-design and implementation, there is a…

The CDC has confirmed 843 domestic cases of cyclosporiasis across 31 states as of July 9, up sharply from the 145 cases in 17 states the agency had reported as of June 16. Eighty-six people have been hospitalized and no…

The country’s third-largest nonprofit health system, Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, is rebuilding nursing degree programs to close a gap chief nursing officers know all too well: new graduates who tested well in school, but stall at the bedside. Advocate wants…