Falls Memorial Hospital and the Duluth Clinic – International Falls, both located in International Falls, Minn., have completed their integration into to the new Rainy Lake Medical Center, according to a report from The Daily Journal.

Seventeen nursing schools in Maryland will receive a combined $11 million in grants to improve technology and draw faculty and students to combat the state's nursing shortage, according to a report in the Baltimore Business Journal.

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses is promoting National Time Out Day, June 17, to emphasize the importance of surgical teams to take a time out to confirm vital patient information prior to surgery, according to an AORN news release.

A recent study, conducted by Katherine Hoda, MD, concluded that more pre-cancerous polyps were found in colonoscopies performed with deep sedation than with milder sedation in which patients remained conscious, according to a news release fro Somnia Anesthesia.

According to the America Stroke Association, strokes killed 143,579 people in 2005. It's the third leading cause of death, ranking behind "diseases of the heart" and all forms of cancer. About 795,000 victims suffer from a new or recurrent stroke…

The American Medical Association recently released a statement supporting health reform and expanded coverage for uninsured persons but opposing "any public plan that forces physicians to participate, expands the fiscally-challenged Medicare program or pays Medicare rates," according to an AMA…

Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Md., has been fined $30,000 for failure to report errors that resulted in patient death and serious harm as is required by state law, according to a report by the Washington Post.

A study by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has found that hospitals are cutting resources for infection control, despite growing number of healthcare-associated infections, according to an APIC news release.

Members of the Ways and Means Committee, the Energy and Commerce Committee and Education and the Labor Committee presented a draft outline of legislation that would reform the current U.S. healthcare system, according to a House Committee on Ways and…

An Oregon bill to tax hospitals and insurance premiums in order to provide health insurance to the state's uninsured has passed out of the House Revenue Committee, according to a report by the Portland Business Journal.