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Fewer than 25% of health care professionals working in acute care hospitals and nursing homes were up to date with COVID-19 vaccination during the 2022-23 flu season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently began displaying its birthing friendly hospital designation on Medicare’s Care Compare website and through a new mapping tool.
An American Hospital Association podcast features Michael Warren, MD, associate administrator of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau at the Health Resources and Services Administration.
In an American Hospital Association blog, Crysta Meekins, MPH, a program manager for the AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, discusses takeaways for hospitals to improve Black maternal health.
The American Hospital Association will host a virtual event on facility safety and security in health care on Dec. 7 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. ET.
Johnson & Johnson released an inspirational and informative video to encourage nursing students and nurses to become perioperative nurses.
A MedPage Today op-ed calls for state boards of nursing to eliminate invasive mental health questions from nursing licensure applications.
Nursing teams at seven Southern California hospitals reported significant clinical and operational results in improving care for cardiac surgery patients.
Trinity Health in Livonia, Mich., is using a care team model comprising nurses, nursing assistants and virtual care technology to redesign care delivery.
AONL and 62 other members of the Nursing Community Coalition sent a letter this week to congressional leadership and the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.