Category: Press Release

Buckhannon, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital has launched a healthcare training pathway for high school students. The MedED Program will train high school juniors and seniors how to be patient care technicians, according to a Feb. 10 system news release. Students will receive classroom instruction, hands-on learning and a paid internship at St. Joseph’s […]

Price transparency laws for healthcare organizations were first implemented in 2021 and have progressively strengthened since, but have they helped patients? The laws were introduced during President Donald Trump’s first term and require hospitals to publicly post their payer-specific negotiation rates. In 2022, a companion rule imposed similar requirements on insurers. And in February 2025, […]

Salt Lake City-based Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah will be the first U.S. academic medical center to manufacture a novel prostate cancer imaging drug, flotufolastat F 18. The drug was developed by Blue Earth Diagnostics and will be manufactured through Huntsman Cancer Institute’s Center for Quantitative Cancer Imaging and Theranostics, according to […]

Grand Forks-based University of North Dakota launched a federal funded nursing program to prepare students to care for older adults in acute care and long-term care settings. The Gero-STARR program will recruit first-semester nursing students enrolled in the university’s bachelor’s degree in nursing program who are from rural North Dakota communities, according to a Feb. […]

Leonard Bighorn said his mother tried for two years to get help for severe stomach pain through the limited health services available near her home on the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana. After his mom finally saw a specialist in Glasgow, about an hour away, she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, Bighorn […]

Two cases of a meningitis-causing infection in infants have been recorded in the U.S., MedPage Today reported Feb. 9. The Paenibacillus dendritiformis infection led to severe meningitis in both cases and was found in a female infant in Pennsylvania and a male infant in Minnesota, one of whom died, the report said. Both infants were […]

Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health will shutter its Ellicott City (Md.) Ambulatory Surgery Center due to low procedure volumes, a spokesperson for the health system said in a Feb. 10 statement shared with Becker’s.  The freestanding ASC’s closure will affect 23 employees and take effect between March 7 and April 6, according to a Feb. 6 WARN […]

If CMS proceeds with a proposed transparency rule in its Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model, patient access, quality of care and trust could deteriorate, according to the American Hospital Association.  The IOTA model is a six-year mandatory alternative payment model that began July 1. For the model’s second year, CMS is considering several changes. In […]

Members of the California Nurses Association plan to strike Feb. 19 at AHMC Seton Medical Center in Daly City, Calif.  The union — which represents about 300 nurses at the hospital, according to a Feb. 6 CNA news release — said the strike is in response to hospital management’s refusal to address concerns about patient […]