The 12 hospitals and 21 surgery centers in Rhode Island have agreed to a new surgical protocol to prevent wrong-site surgery errors, according to a report in The Providence Journal.

The fourth annual report from the New Hampshire Health Care Quality Assurance Commission showed that hospitals and surgery centers in New Hampshire lead the nation in infection control, according to report in the Nashua Telegraph.

Physicians are asking hospitals to be compensated for providing emergency department ("ED") call coverage at an increasing rate. Many hospitals are responding to such requests, and offering on-call compensation arrangements to ensure that patient needs are being met. Recently, the…

Here are the top 10 states with the longest average number of minutes spent by patients in the emergency department.

Here are the top 10 states with the shortest average number of minutes spent by patients in the emergency department.

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…