Three state nursing associations are speaking out against Medicaid enrollee data being shared with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Yesterday, HHS officials ordered CMS to provide ICE with the personal data of Medicaid enrollees, including immigration status. The order applies to…

Digital innovation has emerged as a frontline strategy in health systems’ efforts to close nurse staffing gaps and improve the delivery of patient care. Leading organizations are investing in AI-powered tools to ease documentation burden among nursing staff, expanding virtual…

A proposed $793 billion cut to federal Medicaid spending is projected to cause 16,642 premature deaths among adults each year as Americans lose coverage, according to a study published June 16 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.  The study from…

Patients whose first language is Spanish are more likely to acquire certain hospital-associated infections than those whose first language is English, according to a study by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente. Infection prevention personnel at Kaiser Permanente reviewed 6,813 publicly reported…

NB.1.8.1 — a new COVID-19 variant tied to a surge in China — now accounts for around 37% of cases in the U.S., according to variant proportion estimates from the CDC.  Four notes: 

Tampa, Fla.-based BayCare Health System reduced nurse burnout by 34% and cut its new hire turnover rate to zero in the first year, thanks to its pilot nurse wellbeing program. BayCare was one of four health systems selected by the…

Prior authorizations are increasingly straining the healthcare industry, according to a survey of 1,000 practicing physicians in the U.S. The American Medical Association conducted the survey, which included 400 primary care physicians and 600 specialists, in December. Prior authorizations impose…

HHS officials ordered CMS to provide the personal data of Medicaid enrollees to the Department of Homeland Security in June, according to an exclusive report from the Associated Press. The shared data includes the immigration status of Medicaid enrollees in California,…

In the first half of 2025, eight systems have performed first-of-their-kind procedures and clinical treatments. 1. Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Heart and Vascular Institute physicians completed the world’s first robotic transcatheter aortic valve replacement explant and aortic valve replacement. The patient…

The world’s first patient to successfully receive a CRISPR gene-editing treatment was discharged from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on June 2, ABC News reported.  KJ Muldoon, a 10-month-old who was born with severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, received the…