More than 80% of emergency departments are not fully prepared for pediatric cases, despite the fact that children make up about 20% of visits each year. The new analysis, published in JAMA Open Network, estimated that if every emergency department in the United States had the core features of 'pediatric readiness,' more than a quarter of the child deaths that follow E.R. visits could be prevented, a figure that equates to thousands of young lives each year.
Staffing of physician practices and medical groups has largely returned to pre-pandemic levels but medical care providers remain busier than ever thanks to a surge of patient visits.
The sale of Steward Health Care's physician network to the Rural Healthcare Group has been finalized, the buyer announced Thursday along with a new name for the consolidated company: Revere Medical. The Tennessee-based affiliate of New York-based private equity firm Kinderhook Industries agreed in August to buy Stewardship Health for $245 million in cash. Revere Medical said Thursday that the transaction had closed and that its new name is meant to reflect the "path to building the country's most revered provider organization."
A groundbreaking treatment for type 1 diabetes is showing promising results for patients in Chicago. It's a minimally invasive procedure that could mean diabetics don't have to inject themselves with insulin.
H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country. Pigs represent a particular concern for the spread of bird flu because they can become co-infected with bird and human viruses, which could swap genes to form a new, more dangerous virus that can more easily infect humans.
University of Chicago Medicine has received a $75 million donation from the AbbVie Foundation to help it build its massive new cancer hospital on the city's South Side. The money will go toward construction of UChicago Medicine's new freestanding hospital — a 575,000-square-foot project that is expected to cost $815 million. The building will be named the AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, and is slated to open in 2027.