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The northern Rocky Mountains, Great Plains and Upper Midwest are seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases that has led to shortages of health care workers.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) will hold a live virtual election recap on Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. ET.
The Joint Commission and Deloitte shared a free white paper, COVID-19 Lessons Learned: A Resource for Recovery.
Winners of the 2020 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award shared two approaches to unconscious bias training through an archived webinar on the American Hospital Association (AHA) website.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has posted an archived webinar, which looks at how hospitals and health systems can better prepare
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued two challenges aimed at improving maternal health.
New parents who receive attentive, supportive nursing care during labor and immediately after childbirth are more likely to exclusively breastfeed their newborn
Access to potentially life-saving mammograms is more difficult for women who face barriers related to the social determinants of health (SDOH).
Two papers published this month in Clinical Infectious Diseases describe ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has sped the development of health service delivery innovations.
Almost 300,000 more Americans died this past year than in 2019, and deaths among adults aged 25-44 years old increased the most, by 26.5%.