Forty-one hospitals have converted to rural emergency status since the designation took effect in 2023. Under the designation, hospitals end inpatient services and instead offer emergency, observation ...

Best Buy Health plans to lay off 161 staffers, according to a California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification. The company said the employees, based in Carlsbad, Calif., would be laid off ...

Orthopedics and orthopedic surgery is the highest-paid medical specialty, with an average annual income of over $560,000, according to a July 8 report from Medscape. The report surveyed more than ...

WellSpan has named Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster (Pa.) to be a preferred orthopedic partner in its east region network.  Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster has provided bone, joint and muscle ...

A judge has approved $30 million in emergency debt financing for Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings to avoid service cuts and layoffs at its California and Connecticut hospitals, CT Insider ...

Early in the company’s history, Epic created EHRs for both inpatient and outpatient facilities but then decided to concentrate on where there was less competition: the ambulatory side. Founder and CEO ...

Three of the most underrated and overlooked clinical innovations in orthopedics are the development of arthroscopic surgery, the ability for surgeons to view results on the move and the advancements ...

A Massachusetts hospital is merging with UMass Memorial Health System and a rural North Carolina hospital is joining Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. Here is more information about the two hospital ...

Three cities in Texas have the highest percentage of adults with fair or poor health, according to WalletHub’s annual ranking, published July 7. To determine the ranking, WalletHub compared 182 cities ...

Wright, Fla.-based HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital named Joseph Everette, DNP, RN, as chief nursing officer. In addition, the July 10 hospital Facebook post announcing his appointment also ...

Orlando, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Hospital, part of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health, has named Heather Fagan, MD, chair of the department of pediatrics and ...

Northwell Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., opened Neurosurgery & Spine at Phelps, according to a July 9 news release. The 2,600-square-foot facility is on the hospital’s campus and is dedicated ...