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While cesarean birth rates fell overall from 2012 to 2021, racial and ethnic disparities persisted for Black women, according to a retrospective cohort study including data from 30 million births.
The American Hospital Association released a report detailing how hospitals can better integrate behavioral health into pediatric care, given the rising rates of anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions among children and adolescents.
Health care executives will discuss trauma-informed strategies to reduce violence, support staff and foster healing during an American Hospital Association webinar Dec. 4 at 1 p.m. ET.
The Rocky Mountain Regional VA system in Aurora, Colo. implemented a nurse-led education campaign to reduce health care-acquired infections.
Hospitals and health systems have improved patient safety measures, even as they care for sicker patients, a JAMA study found.
Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents are allowed to be in hospitals’ public areas and can accompany already-detained patients as they receive care, but detained patients have rights and can advocate for themselves or seek legal recourse, according to legal experts.
The National Institutes of Health grant terminations this year affected hundreds of clinical trials and thousands of participants, a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found.
Underserved Black and Latino individuals participating in a nurse-led program to increase COVID-19 testing to reduce virus spread during the pandemic tested more often than underserved minorities not in the program, a study published in Nursing Outlook found.
To retain bedside nurses and build internal pipelines, health systems are modernizing their career advancement programs.
AONL and 62 other members of the Nursing Community Coalition reiterated its fiscal year 2026 appropriations requests to House and Senate leaders.