Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them, saying the state is not capable of fixing deep failures in care even though it has been required to do so over the last decade.
With more than 1,000 people moving to Florida every day, pressure is on the healthcare system to keep up with the demand for services. The steady growth in population is driving healthcare organizations across the region to expand and in some cases, build new hospitals. From Wesley Chapel to Fort Myers, cranes are dotting the skyline as construction gets underway to provide more space for patient care. In analyzing seven of those projects, the total value exceeds $1.7 billion. One key figure that proves the boom: health care entities announced plans to build 65 hospitals across the state between 2020 and 2022 — up 225% from 20 hospitals approved from 2016 to 2018.
Madera Community Hospital is set to undergo a series of health inspections conducted by a team from the state health department. These inspections will serve as a crucial step in the hospital's process as they move towards reopening. The hospital's new CEO announced in a Facebook post that the survey will last a week as teams will review facilities, supplies and equipment. After suddenly closing its doors more than two years ago, community members in Madera are eager to have a healthcare center back in their town.
When donor lungs arrive at Northwestern Medicine’s Canning Thoracic Institute, they can be placed in a refrigerator set at 50 degrees Fahrenheit and be kept "alive" in the fridge for up to 18 hours. The innovative technology was used in a dozen of the 148 lung transplants the Chicago health system performed in 2024. These days, it's being used in "pretty much every" transplant.
Specifically, the bill will provide regulators the authority to enforce title protections against those who develop or deploy AI systems that claim to be a licensed or certified health professional.
A New York City academic medical center is drawing unexpected fire from doctors, patients and others in health care for buying a pricey Super Bowl ad touting its services. NYU Langone's ad comes amid heightened scrutiny of nonprofit hospitals, which don't pay federal income taxes, and as Americans' frustration with the broader health care system is cresting. The big picture: The ad played nationwide — alongside those for automakers, beer and snack foods — and likely cost upward of $8 million, according to TV ad impact measurement company iSpot. It featured a group of doctors struggling to complete a passing play, then getting words of encouragement from former New York Giants star Victor Cruz as a narrator intoned, "Not the best football team, but the best health system."