There is a key driver behind the nationwide shortage of nurses: a severe nurse faculty shortage. To solve both shortages, more systems and nursing programs are creating formal venues to enlarge the nurse educator pipeline. Like the nurse shortage, universities…

Recent Medicaid policy changes will result in 1,484 additional deaths and nearly 100,000 preventable hospitalizations per year, according to a study published July 16 in JAMA Health Forum.  Two weeks before President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is adding improv comedy classes to its medical residents’ training to improve the physician-patient relationship, NPR reported July 16. The improv workshop teaches skills that can’t be learned from a textbook, a participating resident told the…

Hartford (Conn.) Healthcare will receive the American Hospital Association’s 2025 Quest for Quality Prize during the upcoming AHA Leadership Summit in Nashville. The Quest for Quality Prize honors organizations that have shown innovation in improving care quality, according to a…

Bentonville, Ark.-based Alice L. Walton School of Medicine welcomed its inaugural cohort of students this month, NBC affiliate KNWA reported July 14. Here’s what to know: 1. The school’s four-year medical curriculum integrates traditional medical training with arts, humanities and…

The American Academy of Nursing recently recognized five nurse-designed care models that aim to reduce costs, improve quality of care and enhance patient experience.  The models, known as Edge Runners, were highlighted in a July 15 post from the American…

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law July 4 established federal loan limits for medical students.  Effective July 1, 2026, the maximum amount a medical student can borrow from Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford loans will be $200,000. A…

The newly opened Charlotte, N.C.-based Wake Forest University School of Medicine is leaning into nontraditional teaching methods for medical students, NC Health News reported July 15.  The city’s first four-year medical school opened last month and is welcoming its first…

The number of emergency department visits for COVID-19 is growing across 11 states and likely growing in 14 others, according to CDC data published July 11.  The data helps visualize whether the number of new respiratory infections is growing or…

The mortality rate among registered nurses in the U.S. was more than two times higher than the mortality rate among physicians between 2020 and 2022, according to a study published Feb. 24 in JAMA Internal Medicine.  Researchers from Boston-based Harvard…