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Hospitals
HCA Healthcare Offers Residency Positions to 1,867 Medical School Graduates to Help Address National Physician Shortage
March 21, 2022 NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, today announced that it…
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How many employees have hospitals lost to vaccine mandates? Here are the numbers so far
by Dave Muoio | December 28, 2021 The past several months have seen thousands of hospitals announce COVID-19 vaccination requirements for staff and…
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Massachusetts orders hospitals to cut non-urgent procedures by 50%
The reason is due to a critical staffing shortage that has contributed to the loss of approximately 500 medical/surgical and…
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Combating COVID and a workforce crisis, hospitals call for more financial relief from Congress
by Dave Muoio | November 4, 2021 For months, hospitals large and small have sounded the alarm on a labor crisis that is…
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COVID-19
Moody’s: Rising costs will slow hospitals rebuilding margins to pre-COVID-19 levels
Operating cash flow margins for nonprofit hospitals fell to a median 7% in 2020. October 26, 2021 / Susan Morse, Managing…
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Financial
Will bonuses and benefits be enough to tackle healthcare’s workforce shortages?
by Dave Muoio | October 5, 2021 The provider industry is caught in the midst of a widespread labor crunch that, according to recent…
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Providence invests $220M to bolster, retain workforce amid nationwide labor shortage
by Dave Muoio | September 6, 2021 Providence has slated more than $220 million toward hiring and retaining more healthcare professionals. From sign-on…
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COVID-19
Texas Freestanding ERs Essential to Overwhelmed Healthcare System During Surge
More than 200 Facilities Hold Patients in Need of Hospital Beds AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Amid the worst wave…
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Scripps delays nonurgent procedures amid staffing shortages
Mackenzie Bean – August 20th, 2021 Scripps Health is temporarily postponing some medical procedures because of significant staffing shortages and a jump…
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HHS expands U.S.-based pharmaceutical manufacturing to get drugs to hospitals faster
May 21, 2020 / Susan Morse, Managing Editor The Department of Health and Human Services will work with a team of private industry…
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Mass General/Harvard Lab Using Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor to Decontaminate N95 Masks
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed., April 24, 2020 They didn’t secure 500,000 test kits from South Korea. They did something…
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VA medical facilities struggle to cope with coronavirus
April 23, 2020 / Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — As she treated patient after patient infected with the coronavirus at a Veterans Affairs…
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The US needs to perform millions of coronavirus tests per week, experts say
April 21, 2020 / By Arman Azad, CNN (CNN) – The United States will have to be able to perform…
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Nurses are protesting working conditions under coronavirus — and say hospitals aren’t protecting them
April 20, 2020 / By Janelle Griffith A nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said she was sent home…
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COVID-19
Begging for Thermometers, Body Bags, and Gowns: U.S. Health Care Workers Are Dangerously Ill-Equipped to Fight COVID-19
April 20, 2020 / BY ZOË SCHLANGER As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to grow in the U.S., health care…
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