Healthgrades on Tuesday named this year's recipients of its annual America's Best Hospitals Awards, which recognizes the 250 top hospitals in the country.

Hospitals continue to face surging labor costs amid a nationwide shortage of health care workers—a problem that some industry groups and lawmakers argue may be due to staffing agencies taking advantage of federal Covid-19 relief funds to increase their profits. Amid the bidding war for nurses, Advisory Board's Karl Whitemarsh offers three insights to help your organization attract and maintain nurses.

Amazon on Tuesday announced that its health care service, Amazon Care, has launched telehealth services nationwide and will expand in-person care to 20 cities later this year. The company also announced it signed on three new companies for its health care services.

Americans' already-sizeable medical debt has grown during the pandemic, leaving many people to forgo medical care due to cost. To combat the increasing burden of this debt, several states have enacted new laws aimed at protecting patients from hefty medical bills. To help support the patient financial experience, Advisory Board experts helped curate a list of our best resources.

CVS Health and Medable are partnering to improve access, engagement, and retention for clinical trials at select MinuteClinic locations, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Rhode Island, Utah, and Virginia.