The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has changed course and voted to make reporting on newborn injuries and deaths optional, PennLive reported July 11.

Natural language processing is being used to speed up care for COVID-positive patients, according to a study from the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

Researchers found that repeated antibiotic exposure might lead to severe COVID-19, according to a study published July 5 in The Lancet. 

A study by Mass General Brigham suggests a new framework health systems can use to improve care management and advance value-based care.

A recent study found emergency departments are making progress but still falling behind national guidelines for pediatric emergency care.

A 66-year-old man with a rifle was shot and killed by police officers outside of Trinity Grand Haven (Mich.) Hospital July 9, according to The Detroit News. 

Collaboration between experts at Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford and Duke University Hospital in Durham saved the life of a woman who contracted necrotizing fasciitis — better known as flesh-eating disease — in June, WRAL News reported July 6. 

A Colorado woman said paramedics put her life at risk by refusing to take her to her hospital of choice, and the city may be liable for her out-of-network hospital bills, CBS Colorado reported July 5.

Effective immediately, The Joint Commission will no longer require hospitals to provide evidence of COVID-19 vaccine compliance, the commission announced July 5.

While findings by the California Department of Health stopped short of holding a San Diego metro area hospital responsible for failing to detain a patient who died shortly after leaving the facility, the department did file a "statement of deficiencies" report, according to a July 3 San Diego Tribune report.

More than 60 research hospitals — including Duke, Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco — could soon lose access to organ screening and quick transportation arrangements for transplants as provider Buckeye Transplant Services is in danger of losing access to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing, the Washington Post reported July 4. 

Older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia are twice as likely to die within a month or during the year following discharge from an intensive care unit compared to patients discharged from the ICU who do not have ADRD, according to a study published July 1 in the American Journal of Critical Care.

CMS will remove the perinatal care electronic clinical quality measure ePC-05 (exclusive breast milk feeding during the newborn's entire hospitalization) from the Inpatient Quality Reporting Program on Jan. 1, 2024.

The Joint Commission identified the most challenging compliance standards — those most frequently listed as "not compliant" in hospitals — in 2022, according to surveys completed from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2022.

Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy and other GLP-1 receptor agonists should not be taken before elective surgeries because of a possible risk of vomiting and food entering a patient's airway and lungs, the American Society of Anesthesiologists said June 29. 

People with type A blood are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 compared to those with type O, according to research published June 27 in the journal Blood. 

Improving access to genetic testing and counseling for the more than 30 million Americans who are living with a rare disease could improve research and ultimately patient outcomes, according to a study led by Mayo Clinic researchers.

As temperatures climb to dangerous highs in areas of the Southern U.S., including in South Florida, employees from a Miami VA hospital said they are concerned about ongoing issues with the facility's air conditioning system and how the machine's faults are affecting vulnerable patients, CBS News reported June 25.

A May 16 corrective action plan submitted by John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, Calif., a Stanford Medicine affiliate, was denied by the California Department of Health Care Services after finding that "not all of John Muir Health's proposed plans of correction adequately addressed the deficiencies," a spokesperson for the DHCS told Becker's.

While several recent reports have detailed the ongoing struggles of maternal healthcare in the U.S. and worldwide, a June 22 report from HHS says that between 2008 and 2021, in-hospital delivery-related maternal mortality rates improved by 57 percent.