On an island where the average house costs $4.4 million, 70% of the staff at Nantucket (Mass.) Cottage Hospital experience housing insecurity — a situation that prompted hospital leadership to treat housing as a clinical strategy.  The 70% figure comes…

Becker’s compiled a list of hospitals that earned five-star ratings for nurse communication in each state, according to CMS’ Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data. CMS shares 10 HCAHPS star ratings based on publicly reported HCAHPS measures.…

Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston are investigating a sharp rise in gestational diabetes among Chinese American populations that appears to outpace increases seen in other groups, The Atlantic reported May 27. George King, MD, the center’s research director,…

The U.S. is projected to face a shortage of 70,610 primary care providers by 2038, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Center for Health Workforce Analysis. The dashboard shows the projected supply and demand for five healthcare…

NYU Langone, a seven-hospital system based in New York City, reduced systemwide nursing support staff turnover rates from from 14.5% to 8.4% in eight months, according to research published in Nurse Leader.  The system linked the 40%-plus turnover reduction to…

Vascular surgery is projected to have the highest shortages of physicians, the Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Center for Health Workforce Analysis found. The HRSA workforce simulation model assesses the adequacy of the nation’s projected workforce supply for 35…

Midcareer physicians report the highest levels of burnout and job stress and the lowest rates of job satisfaction and feeling valued, the American Medical Association found.  The 2025 AMA Organizational Biopsy surveyed nearly 19,000 physicians across 38 states and 106…

Bernadette Boden-Albala, MD, MPH, DrPH, has spent her career on the frontier of public health, from eradicating polio alongside UNICEF to building UCI’s Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health from scratch. Her list of field victories is…

Since January 2025, between 1.5 million and 1.8 million children have been dropped from Medicaid programs even though HR 1 policies are months away from full implementation, according to researchers at Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown University.  The university’s Center for Children…

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has expanded the state’s professional loan repayment program to offer physicians up to $300,000 in loan forgiveness. The expanded program allows full- and part-time physicians to receive $75,000 per year in student debt relief…