On April 11, CMS instructed state Medicaid agencies to not cover hormone therapies or gender-affirming surgery for children. In a letter to state agencies, CMS said medical interventions for gender dysphoria, such as puberty blockers, “lack reliable evidence of long-term…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York Times. Towana Looney, a woman from Alabama, had lived with…
Violence against healthcare workers made national headlines in March after the American Hospital Association warned of an alleged coordinated, multicity terrorist attack on hospitals in the coming weeks. The FBI found that the threat was not credible, but the incident…
CMS is proposing to modify several hospital quality measures and remove four others, including those focused on health equity and social drivers of health. The agency outlined the changes April 11 as part of its 2026 proposed rule for the…
An independent consulting firm found that operating a freestanding birth center is not feasible in Windham, Conn., according to an April 10 Connecticut Mirror report. The consultant’s report was triggered after Windham Hospital stopped performing birthing services in 2020 and…
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Researchers at Columbus-based Ohio State University have designed and developed the world’s first noninvasive devices aimed at improving a person’s ability to smell. In a clinical trial, 58 healthy people and 54 patients with self-reported smell deficits received two “smell…
Discharge planning plays a crucial role in patients’ recovery, influenced by various factors. To support this transition, NYU Langone is focusing on one key ingredient: nutrition. The New York City-based health system launched its “Food as Medicine” program in 2022…
The Zero Suicide model, designed by Detroit-based Henry Ford Health, is associated with a reduction in suicide attempt rates among patients, according to research published April 7 in JAMA. In 2001, Henry Ford Health was the first to implement the…
An AI tool that analyzes nurses’ notes for subtle clinical changes helped reduce patient risk of death by 35.6%, length of stay by 11.2% and sepsis risk by 7.5%, according to research published April 2 in Nature. In a yearlong,…
Surgeons at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville have become the first in Tennessee to perform a kidney transplant using a new FDA-approved organ preservation technology. The Vanderbilt transplant team used the Paragonix KidneyVault Renal Perfusion System, a portable hypothermic perfusion…