National Nurses United (NNU), which identifies itself as the nation’s largest union of RNs with more than 225,000 members, was scheduled to bring its nationwide Red Alert tour to Alameda (Calif.) Hospital on Saturday. It would be the third stop on the tour, which visits a community hospital on a…
The fact that many U.S. hospitals and health systems are in financially fragile positions is widely acknowledged. New reports from Strata Decision Technology, which offers cloud-based business decision support, offer quantitative confirmation of this trend, finding that rising expenses and decreasing revenue, including upcoming reimbursement changes and policy changes, are…
PeritasAI, a developer of “intelligent robotic systems within hospital settings,” has announced a partnership with AdventHealth to “explore how advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging humanoid robotics can strengthen surgical operations and improve the experience for patients and care teams.” The partnership’s primary focus will be on how “intelligent systems,”…
According to a report in The Daily Bruin, the UC Board of Regents yesterday approved a $298.2 million budget Wednesday to convert an El Segundo, Calif., office building into a UCLA Health complex called UCLA Health South Bay. According to the campus newspaper, the renovated building will contain a Sports…
Wondering why your ASC wasn’t selected as one of U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers? Or was your ASC selected, and you’d like to learn more about why? The media outlet has posted a Q&A with the lead of the project: its chief of health analysis and…
The annual Certified Nurses Day takes place Wednesday, March 19, 2026. It’s a day to celebrate your certified nurses’ knowledge, talent, spirit and commitment to patient safety and excellence in health care. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), which organizes, promotes and provides resources for Certified Nurses Day, encourages…
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2026 Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers ratings. Using data provided by health insights provider Arcadia, U.S. News evaluated 4,421 ASCs nationwide. That’s well short of the total number of ASCs in the U.S., due to the fact that the ratings focus exclusively on…
Media outlet Mississippi Today reports that Greenwood Leflore Hospital received temporary relief from making payments to the state’s Medicaid system after an order issued by a Hinds County Chancery judge last week. The judge ordered the Mississippi Division of Medicaid to temporarily stop collecting money owed by Greenwood Leflore after…
A study by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) found that heat generated by alternating magnetic fields (AMF) helps common antibiotics work better against prosthetic joint infections. The study, published in Scientific Reports and promoted by UTSW last week, demonstrated the efficacy of AMF in eradicating bacteria-protecting biofilm from the surface…
Baptist Health reached a definitive agreement to acquire South Arkansas Regional Hospital in El Dorado, Ark., and add it to the Baptist Health system. Although the transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals, Baptist Health stated that it will officially change the name of the 151-bed hospital to Baptist Health…
