Clinical

Violence in U.S. Emergency Departments on the Rise

Mar 19, 2019 at 04:16 pm by steve

ACEP Survey Highlights Growing Risk By their very nature, emergency departments are high-stakes settings filled with vulnerable patients and frightened families. Increasingly,.... Read More
Business

Considerations Upon Joining a Physician Practice

Mar 19, 2019 at 04:13 pm by steve

On Match Day in March each year, medical students completing their formal education find out where they are going to continue their training in residency. Similarly, those stu.... Read More
Clinical

Small Towns, Big Fight for Continued Access to Care

Mar 19, 2019 at 04:10 pm by steve

Rural Hospitals Face Death by a Thousand Cuts More than 60 million Americans - nearly one in five residents - live in rural communities. While these small towns and wide swath.... Read More
Grand Rounds

Georgiana Medical Center Will Close

Mar 19, 2019 at 04:00 pm by steve

Georgiana Medical Center, located in Greenville, Alabama, will close its doors on March 31. The hospital's operator, Ivy Creek of Butler, says patient care will be directed to.... Read More
Grand Rounds

NIH Funding to UAB Near $300 million

Mar 19, 2019 at 03:59 pm by steve

Research funding to UAB from the National Institutes of Health came in just shy of $300 million in 2018, placing UAB 23rd on the list of universities receiving NIH funding, ac.... Read More