Two people, including a hospital caregiver, have died after a July 2 shooting in the parking garage of Mercy Hospital Springfield (Mo.). Springfield Police Department officers responded to a report of ...

Nurse execs identify skills nurses missing day 1, including critical thinking, communication, and hands-on clinical experience.

OpenAI is in early talks with the Trump administration about handing the federal government a 5% stake in the company, CNN reported July 2. The proposal, still described as conceptual, would also ask ...

Orlando Health launches Orlando Health Children's brand July 1, 2026, renaming Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children as it unifies pediatric services statewide.

The nation’s age-adjusted death rate fell 4.6% in 2025 to 689.2 deaths per 100,000 people — the lowest rate ever recorded in ...

UC San Diego Health and Escondido, Calif.-based Palomar Health on July 1 completed a joint powers authority, forming a new health system called Palomar UC San Diego Health. The JPA combines Palomar ...

Drug shortages rose in early 2026 with five recent U.S. drug discontinuations reported by the FDA database, impacting key injectable medications.

CMS plans to cut what Medicare pays hospitals for drugs bought through the 340B program and push site-neutral payment into a new category of outpatient services, two proposals that together would pull ...

Children's Mercy chief people officer Michelle Wimes takes voluntary early retirement after nearly six years at the Kansas City pediatric health system.

Curtis Cole of Cornell University and 4 other health IT leaders on why major EHR switches may be ending — and what could still change that.

The CDC is monitoring a cyclosporiasis outbreak across 17 states that has sickened more than 200 people. Cyclosporiasis is a parasite linked to contaminated food or water and causes symptoms including ...

Explore the gender ratio nurse practitioners across all 50 states and D.C. with detailed female-to-male NP data from KFF and Becker's analysis.