Charlotte Huff

New data-driven programs address lagging survival rates for some cancers in patients 15–39.

As health care advances allow more young patients to live well into adulthood, pediatric and adult facilities are teaming up to decide who should be treated where.

As baby boomers grow older, hospitals are seeing increased geriatric patients in trauma care centers. Some hospitals are implementing geriatric-specific trauma programs to address this.  

5 strategies for rural hospitals to help retain their hard-won physicians

To thrive in a quickly changing health care system, leaders rethink how and where they deploy their workforce

At public hospitals, boards pose unique challenges for top executives

Your job isn't over after recruiting a physician; retention is just as important and as hard

Hospitals find it more difficult to recruit certain disciplines, try a variety of strategies to fill the gaps

Cut jargon, ask direct questions, simplify signage among the ways to aid communication — and care.

Advanced planning will ensure that patient care will not be disrupted

Establishing specific criteria to sound the rapid- response alarm can help bolster the resolve of a nurse working alone late at night

Critics call them an ineffective Band-Aid; advocates say the teams save lives if they are well thought out