UConn Health abruptly reversed, calling off a plan to cut stipends aimed at recruitment and retention for 260 nurses. The hospital reached an agreement with the University Health Professionals Local 3837 to extend the stipends for a year after earlier this month announcing the immediate cut of 50% of those stipends, causing outcry from nurses.
Hundreds of nurses and other workers at McLaren Macomb Hospital walked off the job Monday morning. Hospital workers, part of OPEIU Local 40, are picketing against McLaren Macomb Medical Center as part of a planned three-day unfair labor practice strike. The strike is expected to last until Thursday, July 10, at 6:59 a.m.
At Southwest General Health Center in Middleburg Heights, artificial intelligence sends appointment reminders and does other repetitive tasks so that healthcare workers can concentrate on patients, the health system said recently.
More than 300 hospitals could be at risk for closure under the budget resolution signed July 4 by President Donald Trump, according to an analysis by the Cecil G. Sheps Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Even as Congress haggled over the controversial bill, a health clinic in the southwest Nebraska town of Curtis announced Wednesday it will close in the coming months, in part blaming the anticipated Medicaid cuts.
Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical training this week were delayed by the Trump administration's travel and visa restrictions. It's unclear exactly how many foreign medical residents were unable to start their assignments, but six medical residents interviewed by The Associated Press say they've undergone years of training and work only to be stopped at the finish line by what is usually a procedural step.
CMS will implement prior authorization requirements for certain traditional fee-for-service Medicare services in six states starting next year. New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Washington will begin using the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model to perform prior authorization evaluations, CMS announced in a Federal Register notice. This will apply to 17 services that CMS says 'are vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse.'