Like in many other industries, Rhode Island's healthcare sector is short of workers. Many hospitals and clinics are looking for nurses, aides and other key employees. If they have not hired enough people, they may force their staff to work long shifts and take...
While U.S. hospitals continue to focus on the health of their patients, they sometimes overlook their nutritional needs. This may or may not come as a surprise, but malnutrition is a widespread problem among hospital patients, making them a higher mortality risk. So...
Electronic medical records have been widely touted as a way to maximize efficiency in the American health care system. Indeed, the push to abandon paper records is so strong that the federal government is spending $27 billion over the next 10 years to induce hospitals...