California’s workplace safety regulator has cited Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California San Francisco a combined $273,200 in proposed penalties following the fatal stabbing of a social worker at the hospital’s HIV clinic in December. The…

The Democratic Republic of Congo now has 550 confirmed cases and 101 confirmed deaths as of June 7, the CDC reported. Here is the latest on the Ebola outbreak. 1. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and the World Health…

Virginia will shift oversight of several nursing scholarship programs to the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority after state officials found that millions of dollars allocated to the programs had gone unused, according to a June 9 report from Cardinal News.…

Trust in the CDC has fallen sharply over the past year, according to a June report from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston and the de Beaumont Foundation’s Public Health Listening Lab.  The poll surveyed 2,205…

When I think about what defines high-quality health care, I don’t start with a single visit or a specific service. I start with a broad view of the full care experience: how care is delivered over time, across settings and…

After cuts to federal agencies and multiple disease outbreaks nationally and abroad, hospitals are working to fill the gaps in public health preparedness and prevention. The threat landscape The federal government cut roughly 17,000 jobs across 17 HHS agencies. The…

The U.S. has now confirmed more than 2,000 measles cases in 2026 — a milestone that arrives with roughly half the year still ahead and no clear sign of the outbreak slowing. Here are five notes from the CDC’s June…

On June 4, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division opened new investigations into “potential race discrimination” at 15 medical schools. Here is what to know. 1. The medical schools under investigation have not been named, but all received millions of…

A total of 405 hospitals in the U.S. have a central line-associated bloodstream infection rate of zero, as based on the healthcare-associated infections dataset from CMS. The Healthcare-Associated Infections dataset, updated May 13, includes performance data for five types of…

The share of men in the U.S. registered nursing workforce increased from 8% in 2015 to 11.2% in 2022 before declining to 10.4% in 2024, according to the AACN’s Nursing Workforce Fact Sheet, updated in May.  The picture on a…