Session: Staff resilience during extended downtime
Editor's Note The story of how the perioperative team at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital responded to a recent cyber event revealed insights about resilience, communication, team-building, and preparedness in one of the concluding sessions of this week’s OR Manager Conference in Las Vegas. The session was presented…
Rural hospitals shutter labor, delivery units
Editor's Note Rural hospitals throughout the country are struggling to maintain labor and delivery units amid dwindling numbers of births, KFF Health News reported July 15, noting that more than half lack these services entirely. Nationwide, annual births have fallen from 4.3 million in 1957 to below 3.7 million by…
Volunteer surgeons publish eye-witness account of civilian carnage in Gaza
Editor's Note A July 19 story from Politico offers a raw, unfiltered view of the realities of the Israel-Hamas war through the eyes of two American surgeons. Authors Mark Pearlmutter, an orthopedic and hand surgeon who practices in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and Feroze Sidwha, a trauma and critical care…
Mass Brigham cancels surgeries amid worldwide tech outage
Editor's Note A global Microsoft server outage disrupting critical services from airline operations to banking is also having a significant impact on healthcare, according to multiple news reports. On example is a Friday, July 19 report from CBS News reporting that Mass General Brigham, the largest health care system in…
Rural US hospitals experiencing labor, delivery crisis
Editor's Note: Rural communities are at serious risk due to hospitals’ increasing inability to offer labor and delivery services, according to a new report from the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform. Highlights include: More than half (55%) of rural hospitals in the U.S. do not offer labor and…
Healthcare worker crisis grows in Florida
Editor's Note Population growth in Florida is amplifying the nationwide shortage of doctors and nurses and putting the state on the verge of a healthcare crisis, Fox 13 Tampa Bay December 27 reports. An estimated 300,000 residents will relocate to Florida annually during the next 5 years. Meanwhile, a third…
Study: Health system executives call nursing shortage ‘critical’
Editor's Note In its first public study of health system executives, Incredible Health reveals that 94% of executives describe the nursing shortage as “critical.” The 2023 Healthcare Executive Report, released June 13, which solicited responses from 100 US health system executives, also finds the following: 68% say they do not…
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