Across all types of doctors, this shortfall may reach as high as 139,000, the Association of American Medical Colleges reported in its sixth annual analysis of staffing trends. 

Tampa-based Tower Radiology hopes the new registration process will help to shorten lobby wait times while improving the patient experience. 

That’s according to a new analysis of 123 patients who presented at six New York City hospitals for suspicion of stroke during the early weeks of the pandemic. 

Providers who have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic can now submit an Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Application outlining their challenges. 

Its changes include removing the long-established guidance that individuals over age 65 are at a greater danger of outcomes such as hospitalization, ICU admission or death. 

Wise practice leaders must find ways to anticipate and mitigate these hindrances to keep their calendars fully booked, experts wrote recently in Risk Management and Healthcare Policy. 

It took 45-year-old Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster County, just 13 years to ascend from x-ray tech to the most powerful position in the Keystone State’s General Assembly. 

The American Hospital Association first made its plea in a letter to Health and Human Services leadership.