Hospitals are struggling with long emergency room (ER) wait times, capacity issues, and staffing shortages. A growing number of patients with cellulitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, ...

There are ways to make it less miserable. By Jancee Dunn A few years ago, I contracted pneumonia and landed in the hospital for a few days. My nurse and I became fast friends as I asked her a thousand ...

A leading nurse organization applauded the Joint Commission's latest hospital performance goals, which elevated the issue of nurse staffing and linked it to patient safety. In a press release, the ...

CMS scraps 24-hour RN rule for nursing facilities, maintaining current 8-hour daily RN staffing amid workforce and legal challenges.

A regional New South Wales public hospital will soon close its mental health inpatient facility, in favor of a home-based ...

When they are done on an outpatient basis, the very same procedures won’t come with a possible three-day stay needed to trigger coverage of skilled nursing care.

Many of America’s great nonprofit hospitals were built or enriched over the second half of the 20th century, thanks to the 1946 Hill-Burton Act, which provided federal grants and guaranteed loans to ...

With an increase in violent assaults against nurses, doctors and staff inside Butler Memorial Hospital, nurses fought hard for change. Now, the nearly 500 union nurses at Butler Memorial Hospital have ...

According to the Nebraska Center for Nursing, 14 counties in the state don't have a single LPN working in them, and 10 have ...