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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory on the supply disruption of peritoneal dialysis and intravenous solutions due to the Baxter plant closure in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene.
AONL appointed three board members to serve two-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2025: Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN; Nicole Gruebling, DNP, RN; and Marie Prothero, PhD, RN.
The Food and Drug Administration this week permitted marketing of the first home test for influenza and COVID-19.
An American Hospital Association podcast describes how Chester County Hospital in suburban Philadelphia cut postpartum complications by more than half by deploying bilingual volunteers to ask their Hispanic patients how to improve care.
Patient safety experts William Padula, PhD, and Peter Pronovost, PhD, MD, call for policy-makers to reward high-performing hospitals and develop centers of excellence to reduce hospital-acquired infections.
Helen Newberry Joy Hospital, in Michigan’s Eastern Upper Peninsula, partnered with the Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation at USF Health in Tampa to strengthen the hospital’s trauma unit surge capabilities.
Taking blood pressure with a patient’s arm supported on a lap or hanging by the body’s side led to significantly higher blood pressure readings compared with the standardized position, a randomized trial found.
An American Hospital Association podcast explores how Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian uses data and the AHA’s Health Equity Roadmap to improve health equity.
Buttressing the nursing scientific workforce in solutions-oriented research will permit nursing science to improve efforts to eliminate health inequities, a Nursing Outlook article maintains.
AnMed’s excellence in implementing language services and community engagement strategies to eliminate health care disparities and improve patient quality outcomes earned the Anderson, S.C. hospital the American Hospital Association’s 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award in the Small/Rural…