Reading, Writing and Wellness: Libraries Try Out Telehealth Kiosks
It’s not an entirely new idea, innovative healthcare leaders looking to expand their reach into communities and rural areas have started programs in libraries, banks, community centers, retail centers, even barbershops and hair salons. Some projects start with just a cubicle and a laptop, while others use kiosks or enclosed rooms.
Dartmouth Health Children’s Takes Innovative Step in Maternal Mental Health
The maternal mental health navigator role involves several responsibilities, including connecting struggling new moms with resources in the community, arranging peer support, providing strategies to cope with anxiety and stress, and supporting pediatricians and obstetricians who work with new moms.
How Hospital CEOs Are Reimagining Workforce Strategies
In the face of ongoing workforce shortages and rising labor costs, hospital CEOs are revamping their approach to designing and building teams. Whether it’s investing in education partnerships, strengthening nurse residencies, or responding to the evolving needs of younger generations, hospital leaders are thinking creatively about workforce sustainability.
The Exec: Anika Gardenhire Talks Transformation at Ardent Health
That idea of stickiness, of enticing a consumer to continue to visit Ardent Health and develop loyalty to the Nashville-based 30-hospital for-profit network, is quickly becoming a catchphrase for many healthcare organizations these days.
Why Are Home Health Agencies Ditching Telehealth?
Conducted between 2023 and 2024 of roughly 260 home health agencies, the study places blame for the drop-off on a lack of Medicare reimbursement, and raises questions about whether home-based care programs can support telehealth at a time when health systems and hospitals are moving more services to the home.
CNOs, Here’s How to Prepare for ICE Agents in Hospitals
Currently, health systems are required to allow ICE agents into general areas that are open to the public, such as lobbies, waiting areas, and other public areas. ICE agents can be barred from entering clearly distinguished and enforced private areas, such as treatment rooms, inpatient units, offices, and any space closed to the public.
New Rural Rotation Program Exposes Medical Residents to Rural Medicine
Minneapolis-based Hennepin Healthcare, which includes a 484-bed academic medical center, is sending emergency medicine and psychiatry residents on a month-long rotation to Sanford Health Bemidji in northern Minnesota. The rural rotation is designed to give residents experience in living and working in a rural setting.
Doctors Train AI on Preventing Heart Attacks
An AI tool that can detect inflammation in the coronary artery could help clinicians diagnose heart disease much earlier, even decades before the patient shows any outward signs of distress.
Survey: Physician Appointment Wait Times Surge 19% since 2022
On average, AMN’s 2025 Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times found that it takes 31 days to schedule doctors’ appointments in 15 of the nation’s largest cities. That’s an increase of 19% (26 days) since 2022, and 48% (21 days) since 2004 in cities with the nation’s highest per capita concentrations of doctors.
Get a Handle on Patient Flow at Your Hospitals
Like many health systems across the country, Carilion Clinic is grappling with patient volumes that stretch bed capacity. Under these circumstances, managing patient flow and patient transfers into and out of the health system are crucial.