Forty-one hospitals have converted to rural emergency status since the designation took effect in 2023. Under the designation, hospitals end inpatient services and instead offer emergency, observation ...

Best Buy Health plans to lay off 161 staffers, according to a California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification. The company said the employees, based in Carlsbad, Calif., would be laid off ...

Orthopedics and orthopedic surgery is the highest-paid medical specialty, with an average annual income of over $560,000, according to a July 8 report from Medscape. The report surveyed more than ...

Three of the most underrated and overlooked clinical innovations in orthopedics are the development of arthroscopic surgery, the ability for surgeons to view results on the move and the advancements ...

WellSpan has named Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster (Pa.) to be a preferred orthopedic partner in its east region network.  Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster has provided bone, joint and muscle ...

Early in the company’s history, Epic created EHRs for both inpatient and outpatient facilities but then decided to concentrate on where there was less competition: the ambulatory side. Founder and CEO ...

A Massachusetts hospital is merging with UMass Memorial Health System and a rural North Carolina hospital is joining Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. Here is more information about the two hospital ...

Three cities in Texas have the highest percentage of adults with fair or poor health, according to WalletHub’s annual ranking, published July 7. To determine the ranking, WalletHub compared 182 cities ...