Hospitals

Dozens of nurses at Mount Sinai West — joined by colleagues from the Morningside Heights campus  — rallied Wednesday saying they are overworked due to a staff shortage. “We are here to say enough is enough,” Nella Pineda, a nurse, said at the rally, which took place around lunchtime near West 58th Street and Tenth Avenue. The nurses’ union says…

Dozens of nurses at Mount Sinai West — joined by colleagues from the Morningside Heights campus — rallied Wednesday saying they are overworked due to a staff shortage. Gus Rosendale reports.

Americans will soon be protected from many unexpected medical bills, thanks to a new law that goes into effect Jan. 1.

Walter Reed is a sprawling military hospital which is used by presidents of the United States for treatment. The naval base there is on lockdown.

Bill Clinton has returned to his home in New York to continue recovering from an infection that left him in treatment for six days at a Southern California hospital.

Patient advocates and some state governments say hospitals must do more to help patients deal with medical bills before the debt winds up in collections.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday she is prepared to call in medically trained National Guard members, retirees and workers outside New York to address potential staffing shortages caused by an approaching vaccine mandate for health care workers. If necessary, Hochul said, she will declare a state of emergency through an executive order designed to address staffing shortages in hospitals and…

Hospitals across the state prepare for staff shortages as the deadline for hospital workers to get their vaccine is on Monday. NBC New York’s Lynda Baquero reports.

“Throughout this pandemic, even in the worst of times, we were not seeing this many younger people under 50 going into our hospitals,” Ohio Gov. DeWine said.

While there has been a decline in births in the U.S. during the pandemic, a new report suggests the drop may have turned a corner last March as births started rebounding

Covid case counts in the U.S. are showing signs of easing off their latest highs but remain elevated as the country heads into the fall season.

China’s health-care sector will probably be the next to fall under scrutiny, analysts warn, as the country’s regulators crack down on everything from tech to education this year.

Southern Lousiana’s hospitals are packed with patients from the latest coronavirus surge.

Kentucky and Texas have joined a growing list of states that have surpassed their record for hospitalized coronavirus patients

Oregon’s governor says she will deploy up to 1,500 National Guard troops to hospitals around the state to support healthcare workers as COVID-19 surges amid the rapid spread of the Delta variant.

St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx is working with French trained Chef Ghali to give restaurant quality meals to their patients. NBC New York’s Jen Maxfield reports.

COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all surging in Florida as the delta variant sweeps through the state that has resisted mask and vaccine mandates. Mary Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association, describes how the variant is “burning through the unvaccinated population” and making previously healthy young people severely ill.

Two New York City hospitals rate among the nation’s top 10, and three make the top 20, according to a closely watched annual ranking released Tuesday. New York-Presbyterian ranks seventh, NYU Langone comes eighth and Mount Sinai ties for 17th in the new U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll. Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic was #1 on the list, whose rankings are…

Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan told CNBC there are now lower rates of diagnoses due to reduced hospital visits during the coronavirus pandemic.

Museum-quality art might be on display at your next doctors visit. Jen Maxfield reports.