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Looming Strike Averted at Major Hospital

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The months-long nurses’ strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has come to a potential resolution after a tentative agreement was reached between the hospital and the United Steelworkers Local 4-200, which represents approximately 1,700 nurses.

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Hospital Celebrates the Only Male Nurse in the Labor and Delivery Ward

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Vincent Women’s Hospital in Indianapolis, Ind. ” He’s only been working at the hospital for two years, but he’s already been nominated for five DAISY Awards for going above and beyond the demands of the job. “He stayed late for me, went home, and came in the next day when he wasn’t scheduled to deliver my baby.

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Entirely predictable: More parents don't want routine vaccination for their kids

Sensible Medicine

In a column for the Free Press, I argued that the CDC was making a mistake adding unproven COVID19 shots to the kids’ vaccine schedule— making parents feel that COVID shot and MMR vaccine are equally important— and this would result in a widespread mistrust in all vaccines.

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Hospitals Turn To Tech To Help with 2021 Nursing Shortage

Electronic Health Reporter

The article Hospitals Turn To Tech To Help with 2021 Nursing Shortage appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. One of the greatest health concerns of modern society is nursing shortages in different states across the world.

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Insights from Digital Health Leaders at ViVE 2025

EvidenceCare

Instead, he sees an opportunity to integrate multiple services to support both hospital and overall wellness goals. Wilcoxs journey into digital health started with a simple observation: patients in the post-anesthesia care unit were experiencing unnecessary delays in discharge, leading to longer hospital stays.

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Why shadowing Vinay Prasad convinced me to become an oncologist

Sensible Medicine

Our day began at the outpatient clinic of the UCSF’s San Francisco General Hospital. At 12:00, we crossed the street to enter the inpatient part of the hospital. He doubted that the hospital would allow us to prescribe such a costly drug. To me, it was a glimpse into the sheer size and scope of the hospital machine.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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