Hospitals

The center, a joint venture of the two institutions, will provide about 130,000-square-feet of medical and research-related space.

The hospital’s COVID death rate was 24% lower than national benchmarks. Still, the report did little to satisfy "health freedom" activists who say they distrust the hospital.

The hospital will no longer need to divert ambulance traffic and will resume scheduling non-emergency surgeries and procedures. TMH hasn’t been specific about the type of security issue that impacted the hospital, but experts say the evidence points to a ransomware attack.

Orlando Health is launching an at-home treatment service for certain patients in the east Orlando area.

An IT threat at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare is ongoing. In an update sent Tuesday afternoon, the system said some elective procedures have resumed.

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare has been postponing nonemergency procedures and diverting all but the most severe emergency patients after a cyber concern forced it to shut down its network late Thursday.

The system says metal detectors had been in the works for months but expedited the installation after a woman was charged with killing her terminally ill husband at a nearby hospital.

Doctors, consumer advocates, and some lawmakers are looking forward to a California lawsuit against private equity-backed Envision Healthcare. The case is part of a multistate effort to enforce rules banning corporate ownership of physician practices.

Hospitalizations for people with COVID rose by more than 30% in two weeks. Much of the increase is driven by older people and those with existing health problems, according to the CDC.

The U.S. is experiencing an unusual spate of childhood RSV infections. But the critical shortage of beds to treat ailing children stems from structural problems in pediatric care that have been brewing for years.

An important new study offers much-needed data to inform older Americans of the risks and benefits they must weigh when facing major surgery.

Federal officials said they are penalizing 2,273 hospitals, the fewest since the fiscal year that ended in September 2014. Driving the decline was a change in the formula to compensate for the chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.