Wellness/Preventive Care
The American Hospital Association (AHA) provides resources for hospitals and health systems to improve wellness for individuals and communities through preventive health care.
What’s better when you’re feeling scared than a visit from a canine friend? Many hospitals and health systems are embracing trained emotional support dogs to support staff, patients and their families during difficult times.
As proposed by its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today recommended a single dose of the GSK or Pfizer Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccine for people aged 60 and older who decide with their health care provider that the vaccine would…
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday released a report on evidence-based strategies to increase physical activity among older adults in community, health care and home settings, noting that less than 15% of adults aged 65 and older meet the aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity…
The shortage of behavioral health care professionals is a serious public health issue, particularly in rural areas.
Health care workers are stressed out, stretched out, burned out and leaving the profession in truly alarming numbers. It doesn’t have to be this way and there are opportunities to make workplaces engines of mental health and well-being.
Inova Health System, Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit health system, in 2021 faced 648 reported instances of such violence.
A district court judge in Texas today vacated nationwide an Affordable Care Act requirement that most group and individual health plans cover certain preventive health services without cost sharing. The Biden Administration is expected to appeal the ruling.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today recommended screening all U.S. adults at least once in their lifetime for hepatitis B using three laboratory tests.
Vail Health in Eagle River Valley, Colo. collaborated with local mental health providers, first responders and others to address the “paradise paradox” and stem a surge in suicides.