A Georgia health system gave location-tracking badges to 10,000 staff members for safety — it worked
The workplace can be dangerous for nurses. Northeast Georgia Health System uses location tracking to make its hospitals safer and more efficient.
Hospitals
Inside the financial scheme that's crippling America's hospitals
Investors got rich bankrupting needy hospitals. Is it about to happen all over again?
Companies from Google to Salesforce are raiding hospitals for new hires
Burned-out doctors are ditching the operating room for the board room.
Nurses say gig work apps can put them in tough situations and stressful hospitals
Nurses are turning to gig work apps to boost their incomes. The jobs can be very stressful.
Tampa Bay's main hospital is built on a low-lying island. Hurricane Milton could push its defenses to the limit.
Hurricane Milton could cause a storm surge of up to 15 feet, stretching low-lying Tampa General Hospital's AquaFence defenses to their limit.
Some US hospitals are canceling non-emergency surgeries and procedures amid the global IT outage
CrowdStrike's mass IT outage has led several major US health systems to cancel non-urgent surgeries and procedures.
Big corporate American hospitals now want you to pay up front for surgery
UnitedHealth, a giant health insurance company, has been buying up hospitals and surgery centers. Now it's requiring patients to pay to play.
A hospital in Australia is begging snakebite victims to stop bringing the snakes in with them
Snakebite victims in Australia are being advised not to bring the snakes to the emergency room, following a scare at a Queensland hospital this month.
Hospital wait times will still be bad this year, even with labor gains
The US may be recovering from a physician shortage, but don't expect to spend less time in hospital waiting rooms this year.
Nvidia's new AI nurses treat patients for $9 an hour. Here's what they can do, from colonoscopy screenings to loneliness companionship
Nvidia partnered with Hippocratic AI to offer $9/hour AI nurses. 40 healthcare companies are already testing it.
Healthcare staff use their panic buttons more often during a full moon, study finds
A new study suggests healthcare workers use their personal panic buttons more frequently during a full moon, according to a hospital safety company.
One Medical patients are stuck in the middle of a fight between a hospital system and the biggest US health insurer
Some One Medical patients in New York could lose in-network access to doctors due to a dispute between Mount Sinai and UnitedHealthcare.
Why America's hospitals are on life support
Inside the financial scheme that's crippling America's healthcare providers
Oldest siblings tend to make more money. Researchers have a new theory that explains why.
Younger siblings tend to earn less money than their older siblings. Differences in early health outcomes could explain why.
Healthcare startups are rushing to sell AI to hospital systems. But a new survey suggests many simply aren't ready for it.
As many as 65% of US healthcare systems have no policies in place to govern AI use as the tech's prevalence rises, a new survey shows.
The Red Cross has seen a 40% decrease in blood donations over the last 20 years. Experts say Gen Z is to blame.
Even after a successful "Snoopy" themed campaign to attract young people, the Red Cross says it's struggling to meet demand from hospitals.
A millennial travel nurse explains how he makes over $100,000 a year and avoids burnout
A travel nurse earning over six-figures per year says the flexible schedule has helped him avoid burnout.
Up to 10 hospital patients in Oregon died from tap water injections instead of fentanyl: report
Police are investigating a series of deaths at an Oregon hospital reportedly caused by infections from tap water injections in lieu of fentanyl.
A harrowing video shows decomposing babies in a Gaza hospital after they had to be abandoned amid Israeli attacks, say reports
NBC News said it had reviewed raw footage of Gaza's Al-Nasr Children's Hospital pediatric ICU unit where the abandoned dead babies were found.
Respiratory illness hits children in China after COVID-19 restrictions lift
Hospitals in China are receiving over 9,000 patients a day after a spike in respiratory illnesses, especially among children.