Bridging Hospital and Home: The Critical Role of Social Workers in Care Coordination
When social workers are integrated into care coordination alongside nurses, they help health systems reduce discharge delays, prevent readmissions, and improve flow across the care continuum. These real-world complexities fall directly into the domain of social work.
Let’s Talk About Robotics in Nursing
As robotics technology enters the healthcare industry, CNOs must be prepared to help their nurses adjust as robotic assisted procedures and robotics-enhanced workflows become more common.
The Exec: How to Promote High Reliability in the Hospital Setting
Establishing high reliability at a hospital requires leadership discipline and cultural commitment, according to the new CMO of Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California.
How a Chief Product Officer Can Address Healthcare’s Technology Gap
Healthcare has long sought to use technology to improve clinical care, starting with the EHR and now embracing the AI movement, but all too often that technology has thrown up a barrier between patients and their care teams.
Press Ganey Launches Zero Harm 24/7 Initiative
Participating health systems will work to address the top 10 barriers to optimizing safety in healthcare by driving system change and elevating patient safety to the highest levels of strategic planning, resource allocation, and performance oversight.
Standardizing In-Hospital CPR Training to Improve Patient Outcomes
As patient safety continues to take center stage, standardizing in-hospital CPR training has become a key strategy to improve consistency, reduce errors, and ultimately enhance survival rates.
Measuring the Right Data for GLP-1 Patients
Patients aren’t just losing fat, they’re also losing muscle and vital body water, highlighted in a study published by the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. These changes can quietly weaken metabolism, strength, and long-term health.
Study: Consumer-Facing AI Chatbots Aren’t Ready for Prime Time
The study, conducted by the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and the Oxford Internet Institute, finds that consumers using LLMs for medical advice didn’t fare any better on getting the right advice than did a control group accessing “traditional sources of information.”
How to Prepare for Late-Season Flu Surges at Health Systems and Hospitals
On Feb. 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that flu activity was “elevated” across the country. The CDC estimates that since the current flu season began in October 2025 there have been at least 22,000,000 illnesses, 280,000 hospitalizations, and 12,000 deaths.
Update: How to Prepare for ICE Agents in Hospitals
In the wake of the killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who worked at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, it’s time for CNOs to take another look at their hospital policies regarding what to do when Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol agents interact with their staff.