The Mount Sinai Hospital Recognized in Top 20 on Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals 2021 List
Hospital also Ranked #1 Regionally in New York City and #7 in the U.S.
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ASU supply chain professor on the challenges now facing residents, businesses and hospitals in Texas amid power outage
Hitendra Chaturvedi is a professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and an expert
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Post-ICU Interviews Reveal Outcomes Important to Patients, Families
A Penn Medicine study in American Journal of Critical Care offers insights into patients’ and families’ priorities for quality metrics during the ICU stay and postdischarge outcomes. Researchers conducted interviews with individual ICU survivors, as well as family caregivers of patients who survived and of patients who died.
Read moreCommunity Spread of COVID-19 Tied to Patient Survival Rates at Area Hospitals
Discovering wide variation in hospitals’ COVID-19 survival rates, researchers found that the levels of the novel coronavirus in the surrounding community was likely the driving factor
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Antibiotics for C-sections Effective After Umbilical Cord Clamped
Antibiotics for cesarean section births are just as effective when they’re given after the umbilical cord is clamped as before clamping – the current practice – and could benefit newborns’ developing microbiomes, according to Rutgers co-authored research. The study, by far the largest of its kind and published in the journal Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, challenges current recommendations for antibiotic use. Administering antibiotics after clamping does not increase the risk of infection at the site of C-section incisions, the study concludes.
Read moreCOVID-19 vaccination begins at UChicago Medicine
First UChicago Medicine employees vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2; Paves way for thousands more to be scheduled over next several weeks
Read moreLake Health to Join University Hospitals
Announcement of the Lake Health system joining the University Hospitals health system.
Read moreAcoustics Virtually Everywhere: 25 Scientists Summarize Research They’re Presenting This Week at ASA’s December Meeting
As part of the 179th ASA Meeting, 25 sound scientists summarize their innovative research into 300-500 words for a general audience and provide helpful video, photos, and audio. These lay language papers are written for everyone, not just the scientific community. Acousticians are doing important work to make hospitals quieter, map the global seafloor, translate musical notes into emotion, and understand how the human voice changes with age.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Amplifies Need to Integrate Palliative Care Into ICUs
Critical care nurses are ideally positioned to drive full integration of palliative care into the care of all patients who are seriously ill, including patients with COVID-19.
Read moreThree health care organizations call for centralized coordinated governmental action during ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
Centralized coordinated governmental action is critical during the resurgence of COVID-19, according to three national health care organizations.
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Rush University System for Health joins national campaign to #MaskUp
100 of the nation’s top health care systems, representing thousands of hospitals in communities across the U.S., have come together with an urgent plea for all Americans — mask up, because wearing a facemask is our best chance at slowing the surging COVID-19 pandemic now.
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Perfect Match: FAU and Memorial Healthcare System Establish Research Partnership
South Florida giants in higher education and healthcare have joined forces to form an alliance that will advance clinical research and clinical trials in the region. Florida Atlantic University and Memorial Healthcare System in Broward County have formed a “Research Partnership to Advance Clinical Trials” (Research PACT), which combines their expertise and resources in clinical research, clinical trials, basic research and translational biomedical research.
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