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The Walgreens Deans Advisory Council will collaborate to address key issues, including staffing challenges and decreasing pharmacy school enrollment February 5, 2024 4 mins read DEERFIELD, Ill., Feb. 5, 2024 – As a trusted, convenient local healthcare destination that millions of Americans rely on every day, Walgreens is expanding its long-standing relationships with colleges of […]

— Equity and infection prevention are cause for concern by Shanina Knighton, PhD, RN February 17, 2024 Knighton is a nurse, scientist, and infection preventionist. By now, you’ve likely heard of the emerging care model of “hospital-at-home,” which enables patients who require acute hospital care to receive it in the comfort of their own homes.

Molly Gamble (Twitter) – Friday, January 26th, 2024 – Becker’s Hospital Review As retailers looked to move further into healthcare provision, their consumer experience stood as something of a threat to legacy healthcare providers. Lately, that competitive edge seems a little less sharp. Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS Health has built a healthcare strategy around the ideas

— Onshoring and “near-shoring” of drug manufacturing could help, as would transparency by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today February 7, 2024 To prevent future drug shortages, domestic manufacturing, “near-shoring,” and increased transparency of the drug supply chain are badly needed, experts told lawmakers during a hearing of the House Committee on Ways & Means

Mariah Taylor (Email) Becker’s Clinical Leadership Twelve percent of nurse leaders plan to leave their position in the next six months, according to an American Organization for Nursing Leadership Foundation study. The 2024 Longitudinal Nursing Leadership Insight Study has surveyed leaders since July 2020. The latest report, based on a survey conducted in November 2023,

Giles Bruce – Becker’s Payer Issues Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said modern healthcare is “just kind of nutty” and future generations will look back on this time wondering what we were thinking, Fortune reported. He described the 2024 experience of making an appointment sometimes far in advance, driving to the physician’s office, sitting in a

Jakob Emerson – Thursday, January 18th, 2024 Becker’s Payer Issues A group of Republican senators have introduced legislation that would ban the use of federal funding to expand state Medicaid benefits to undocumented residents. Federal law already prohibits noncitizens from receiving Medicaid, but states can use their own funds to extend benefits. “If a state

ANALYSIS  |  BY G HATFIELD  |   DECEMBER 27, 2023 G Hatfield is the nursing editor for HealthLeaders    Nurses want to work with in-house teams that they can rely on, but it’s complicated. Key takeaways from a leadership perspective, outsourcing is a tool that is used to fill gaps among nursing ranks in order to continue

Skip Prichard, President & CEO at OCLC, WSJ Bestselling Author The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future, OCLC  University of Baltimore School of Law, Dublin, Ohio, United States Posted on January 8, 2024 | 3 min read (759 words) Understanding the Power of Uncomfortable Emotions I was having a conversation with