Patients who have open-heart surgery in the afternoon may fare better than those who have surgery in the morning because the body's circadian rhythm may be better able to help the heart heal later in the day, according to a study in The Lancet.
Nurses at Sparrow Hospital in Michigan, supported by the Michigan Nurses Association and in partnership with RIP Medical Debt, announced that they had acquired and forgiven over $1 million in medical debt, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Michigan, and South Dakota.
President Trump will nominate Alex Azar, a former pharmaceutical industry executive who also served as an HHS official under former President George W. Bush, to be the nation's new HHS secretary.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the Drug Enforcement Agency's move to schedule all illicit fentanyl-related substances "empower[s] … law enforcement officers and prosecutors to take swift and necessary action against those spreading these deadly poisons."
Hospitals have made significant advances to improve quality performance and reporting, with an increasing proportion of hospitals adopting electronic clinical quality measures, according to the Joint Commission's 2017 annual report.
