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Colorado's getting $1 billion to 'transform' rural health care: Hospitals aren't thrilled with the state's plan
Colorado will receive about $1 billion in federal funding to reshape rural health care over the next five years, but hospital CEOs aren't happy with the state's plan to spend the money.
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Redesigning hospital work environments improves clinician well-being and patient safety across Europe
An international intervention co-led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) and the KU Leuven Institute of Healthcare Policy in Belgium shows that redesigning ...
Jan 7, 2026
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Flu surge prompts masking mandates at Eastern Shore hospitals
Several Eastern Shore hospitals have reinstated masking mandates this week, joining a growing number of health care centers in Maryland reporting unusually high numbers of influenza cases.
Jan 5, 2026
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One big beautiful bill act complicates state health care affordability efforts
As Congress debates whether to extend the temporary federal subsidies that have helped millions of Americans buy health coverage, a crucial underlying reality is sometimes overlooked: Those subsidies are merely a band-aid ...
Dec 22, 2025
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Hospitals acquired by real estate investment trusts associated with greater risk of bankruptcy and closure
Real estate investment trust (REIT)-acquired U.S. hospitals were associated with a greater risk of bankruptcy or closure than non-REIT-acquired hospitals, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School ...
Dec 18, 2025
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Can Urgent Care clinics actually take pressure off hospitals? Yes, but they're not the only way
When we're acutely ill or injured, we want to be able to quickly access care in Australia's hospital emergency departments (EDs). But more of us are seeking care in EDs. This went from 7.4 million in 2014–15 to 9.1 million ...
Dec 18, 2025
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Chronic breathlessness emerging as a hidden strain on hospitals
Chronic breathlessness, a symptom often overlooked by health care systems, is associated with longer lengths of hospital stay on already overstretched health care resources, says new Flinders University research.
Dec 17, 2025
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Corridor care in NHS: 79% of trusts treating patients in non-designated areas
Most (79%) of NHS trusts in England are treating patients in corridors or makeshift areas in emergency departments including "fit to sit" rooms, X‐ray waiting areas, and in one case a café, finds an investigation published ...
Dec 16, 2025
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Health care consolidation and rising costs
In a recent "Meet the Press" appearance, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., joined a growing number of Republicans who are speaking out against Obamacare. One of his lines of attack: that the Affordable Care Act fueled health ...
Dec 15, 2025
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Rural health providers could be collateral damage from $100K Trump visa fee
Bekki Holzkamm has been trying to hire a lab technician at a hospital in rural North Dakota since late summer.
Dec 15, 2025
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UK health service battles 'super flu' outbreak
The UK is facing an "unprecedented wave of super flu," a health chief has warned, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer Friday denounced "reckless" plans by doctors to launch a five-day strike next week.
Dec 12, 2025
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A North Carolina hospital was slated to open in 2025: Mired in bureaucracy, it's still a dirt field
Madison County, tucked in the mountains of western North Carolina, has no hospital and just three ambulances serving its roughly 22,000 people.
Dec 11, 2025
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Low-capability pediatric hospitals more than doubled from 2003 to 2022: Study
From 2003 to 2022, there was a more than doubling in low-capability pediatric hospitals, according to a study published online Dec. 10 in Pediatrics.
Dec 10, 2025
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Home-based monitoring could transform care for patients receiving T-cell redirecting therapies
Patients who receive T-cell redirecting therapies are typically hospitalized for several days after treatment to watch for side effects. Now new research by Fox Chase Cancer Center physicians shows that these patients can ...
Dec 9, 2025
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Examining impact of federal relief program after major health care cyberattack
New research from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health provides the first detailed look at whether funding provided through a federal relief program effectively reached hospitals affected by a ransomware attack ...
Dec 8, 2025
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IV iron improves survival, increases hemoglobin in patients with iron-deficiency anemia and acute infection
Treatment with intravenous (IV) iron significantly improved survival and increased hemoglobin levels in patients with iron-deficiency anemia who were hospitalized for an acute bacterial infection, according to an analysis ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Health insurance premiums rose nearly 3x the rate of worker earnings over the past 25 years
Health insurance premiums in the U.S. significantly increased between 1999 and 2024, outpacing the rate of worker earnings by three times, according to our newly published research in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Dec 8, 2025
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America doesn't have enough hospital beds. This could help
Every day, across the nation, patients wait hours or days in emergency departments until a bed opens up for them in the hospital.
Dec 5, 2025
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Rising complexity in pediatric patients is reshaping hospital care
A new national analysis shows that over the past two decades, inpatient care for children with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) has become far more intensive—and is now overwhelmingly concentrated in urban teaching children's ...
Dec 2, 2025
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Oregon's first-in-the-nation hospital price cap cuts costs without compromising care
As health care costs continue to soar across the U.S., a growing number of states are setting limits on how much hospitals can charge. These policies, known as hospital payment caps, aim to curb spending by tying hospital ...
Dec 2, 2025
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Home hospital care demonstrates success in rural communities
One in five people in the United States live in a rural area. Patients in rural communities often struggle to access care because of travel difficulties, high costs and limited resources, leading to worse medical outcomes. ...
Dec 1, 2025
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Finding solutions to the global issue of sexual harassment in medicine
One-third of junior doctors have experienced sexual harassment and abuse (SHA) within their health care system.
Nov 29, 2025
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A hospital-acquired bacterium can travel from lungs to gut, raising sepsis risk
A hospital-acquired bacterium that causes serious infections can move from the lungs to the gut inside the same patient, raising the risk of life-threatening sepsis, new research reveals.
Nov 25, 2025
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Q&A: Protecting patients' online lives
From pacemakers to patient portals, modern health care systems are increasingly reliant on connected technologies. However, innovation can make health care systems vulnerable to sophisticated cyberattacks, threatening not ...
Nov 24, 2025
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AI-driven system automates fax filing and digital consent, saving 8,500 staff hours
An emerging artificial intelligence-powered system developed at Penn Medicine has tripled the speed of fax processing and cut a full week off the new patient intake process—freeing up thousands of staff hours. The system, ...
Nov 23, 2025
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