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Last fall, St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., became the first hospital in the state to make the decision to eliminate the sale of sugar-sweetened beverages from all of its properties.

The healthcare industry is on notice: Fraud recoveries in the healthcare sector are on the rise and whistle-blowers are the biggest weapon in the fight against fraud.

In the last few years the scope of responsibilities and duties delegated to medical directors has been evolving to include more responsibility over measures of quality within their healthcare organizations.

An analysis from HealthPocket raises the specter that individuals who obtain health coverage under Medicaid starting in 2014 will have to dig to find a clinician who will treat them.

U.S. medical schools are on track to increase their enrollment 30 percent by 2017, according to results of the annual Medical School Enrollment Survey conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Workforce Studies, released Thursday.

During the month of April, the healthcare industry continued to add jobs, gaining 19,000 new positions, according to the new employment data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.

Healthcare workers are burned out -- so much so that more than a third of them say they plan to look for a new job this year, according to a new survey from CareerBuilder.

The debate about the increasing role of nurse practitioners was taken up by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) early in April, when the commission addressed issues of reimbursement for NPs and other non-physician practitioners.

According to research done by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and published in the May issue of Medical Care, magnet hospitals have both lower patient mortality rates and better patient outcomes, due in part to more investments in nursing at these organizations.

Supporters of a proposed rule to change the companion exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act pressured the Obama administration last week to make a final ruling.