Survey: Most nurses plan to stay despite financial, staffing, job satisfaction concerns
Editor's Note Financial strain, stress, and uncertainty are not enough to deter many US nurses from saying their education and careers have been worthwhile. That is one reading of the results of Nurse.org’s 2025 Nurse Survey, which collected responses from more than 6,000 US nurses between January and April. Overall,…
Recent FDA Class 1 recall designations include anesthesia systems, aortic root cannula
Editor's Note The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated recent medical device recalls involving GE Healthcare’s Carestation anesthesia system, Medtronic aortic root cannula systems, Zoll Circulation’s AutoPulse NXT Resuscitation System, and Medtronic’s Bravo CF Capsule Delivery Devices as Class 1, the most severe category indicating serious risk of…
Major insurers pledge prior authorization reform
Editor's Note Nearly 50 major US health insurers—including UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Cigna, Elevance, and Humana—have pledged to reform prior authorization practices, with the goal of easing administrative burdens and improving access to care, according to a June 23 article in Healthcare Dive. As detailed in the article, the announcement came from…
Surgeons perform first dual-organ transplant on LVAD patient
Editor's Note A Florida transplant team has performed the first-ever heart-liver transplant in a patient supported by a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), offering a potential new treatment route for those previously ineligible due to high rejection risk, CBS News reported June 21. The patient, whose antibody levels placed her…
Robot surgery spans continents in FDA-backed trial
Editor's Note A Florida-based surgeon successfully performed a prostate cancer surgery on a patient in Angola—7,000 miles away—marking a major milestone in transcontinental robotic telesurgery, according to a June 17 article from ABC News. The procedure, conducted by Dr. Vipul Patel of Advent Health’s Global Robotic Institute, is reportedly the…
Survey: Drug shortages impact hospital labor costs
Editor's Note Hospitals spent nearly $900 million in labor last year managing drug shortages, dedicating over 20 million hours to activities such as sourcing alternatives, updating systems, and communicating with care teams, according to a new Vizient survey published June 17. Conducted in late 2023 and detailed in Vizient’s June…
Study: Crowded OR boosts likelihood of airborne bacterial contamination during sterile prep
Editor's Note Reducing the number of OR personnel during preparation of sterile surgical goods significantly lowers airborne bacterial contamination, according to a randomized controlled trial published June 15 in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control. The study measured contamination levels during sterile setup for 69 open-heart surgeries, comparing rooms with two…
Study: Bariatric surgery leads to five times greater weight loss than GLP-1 drugs
Editor's Note Bariatric surgery produced five times greater weight loss than GLP-1 medications in a new study of over 51,000 patients with obesity, according to a June 18 article from Fox News. The retrospective study, funded by the NIH and conducted by researchers at NYU Langone Health and NYC Health…
Bad debt climbs as patient defaults, denials impact hospital revenue growth
Editor's Note Bad debt—payments hospitals expected to collect but ultimately had to write off—is increasing across hospitals as patients struggle to pay their share of healthcare costs and insurers raise the rate of claim denials, Modern Healthcare reported June 19. Citing a Kaufman Hall analysis of data from about 700…
Tariffs stir uncertainty in hospital supply chains, health insurance premiums
Editor's Note Recent reporting from Axios reveals hospitals and health insurers are reporting new concerns about rising tariffs and trade policy uncertainty, with the former delaying purchasing decisions and the latter planning premium increases as a result. In the first article, published June 18, the outlet reports that health system…
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