The Deep South Biosafety Worker Training Program (WTP) strives to provide cohesive occupational health and safety training for healthcare personnel and public safety professionals.

Anyone considering a career in health care understands the importance of having clinical experience prior to becoming a doctor or nurse. But a group of students at The University of Mississippi not only obtained that experience at Baptist North Mississippi, they did it as undergraduates exploring the ethical, social and cultural issues in medicine.

In 2012 the National Academy of Medicine estimated the U.S. health care system squandered $765 billion a year. Today hundreds of volunteers collect discarded medical equipment and supplies from a network of hospitals and medical clinics and ship them overseas.

An industry that blames the Affordable Care Act for putting salons out of business looks forward to planned Republican repeal of the “tan tax.”

GOP leaders could propose additional health legislation as soon as this month, focused on driving down health care costs and expanding ways for people to buy affordable coverage, as they seek to convince skeptics to vote for the current repeal bill.

The American Hospital Association released a one-page guide to help hospital and health system board members and leaders implement a multi-step strategy to promote care coordination between Indian Health Service facilities and other health care providers. The strategy is one of nine innovative ways for communities at risk for losing access to essential health care services to consider based on their unique needs, support structures and preferences, according to a recent report by the AHA’s Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities. AHA will release similar guides for the other eight strategies monthly through 2017.

The Trump administration is seeking to extend an Obama-era initiative that allows military veterans to seek care from private doctors when the wait is too long for Veterans Affairs healthcare facilities.

New professional standards will lengthen the consecutive hours that first-year doctors may work.

The HR department at Health First creates value by coaching senior leaders on identifying candidates with high potential and by raising retention rates.

It’s 2017, but medical records are still mostly stuck in the dark ages. Most hospitals use electronic health records, but if you want your primary care doctor to share information with your allergist or surgeon, it’s a pain.

The American Hospital Association recently urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to extend the March 13 deadline for submitting electronic clinical quality measure data for the 2016 reporting period for the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting and Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs, or forgive the payment penalties that would be imposed on hospitals unable to successfully submit data. Hospitals and health systems have reported several issues with the programs’ data submission system and with vendors’ certified technology, putting at risk their successful completion of their IQR reporting and meaningful use attestation, wrote Ashley Thompson, AHA senior vice president for public policy analysis and development.  

The Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace has been tough on health insurers’ bottom lines, but Medicaid expansion funneled thousands of new members to insurers and boosted revenue for many. That may soon change.

Vice President Mike Pence appealed for total GOP congressional support for a White House-backed health overhaul during a brief visit Saturday to Kentucky, where the Republican governor and junior senator are among the plan’s skeptics.  

The vice president wasted no time trying to woo Kentucky’s governor, who has been cool toward the plan, but delivered a relatively humdrum speech.

Lawmakers are pushing to overrule the Senate parliamentarian if she doesn’t decide in their favor.

The new bill looks to change how healthcare is financed for people who do not have insurance through their employer, and would eliminate the mandate requiring all Americans to carry health insurance.

Many Republicans aren’t debating the merits of their revisions. They’re learning whether the GOP can govern without a right-wing litmus test blocking the way.

Statehouse opposition to the House Republican’s proposed cap on Medicaid payments and phasing out the program’s expansion to low-income adults stands in the way of the GOP’s push for quick replacement of the Affordable Care Act.

The Republicans hate the individual mandate. I get that. I don’t necessarily understand their rationale, but I accept it. They also, however, understand the need for some sort of carrot/stick to get healthy people to buy insurance so that we don’t get adverse selection and see the private insurance market enter a death spiral. So they need to replace it.

Following President Trump’s meeting with House GOP leaders, press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump supports the bill’s plans to roll back Medicaid expansion, which conservatives had hoped to make happen sooner.