Across the country, communities in rural areas have a hard time recruiting doctors, who are more attracted to the lifestyle and salaries of big cities. But the small wheat-farming town of Colfax, Washington, has come up with a clever solution to the problem. The community hospital and some of its doctors are paying a local woman's way through medical school. The med student has committed to return to her hometown to practice after completing her studies. Tom Banse reports.

Five years post-conflict, individuals who served in the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War were 25 percent more likely to visit an emergency department than veterans of the same era who were not deployed, but were no more likely to have a hospital stay or an outpatient visit, according to a study appearing in the December 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

In the first survey to specifically measure hospital pediatric preparedness, a team of Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) researchers found few U.S. emergency rooms are properly equipped for children.

One in 10 NHS patients comes to harm while in hospital as a result of their clinical care, suggests a study in Quality and Safety in Health Care.

Proper design of computational tools is critical if they are to be used with success in patient-care settings, particularly in hospital emergency rooms, a field study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo and other institutions recently revealed.

The results of the first study to show the effectiveness of early physical therapy in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) are being presented today (Oct. 23) by a researcher from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center at the national meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Chicago.

The most comprehensive annual study of hospital quality in America examines 41 million hospitalization records at 5,000 hospitals over 3 years; mortality rates improve nationally

A new review of inpatient data from US hospitals shows that the number of infections caused by a common bacterium increased by over 7 percent each year from 1998 to 2003. The attendant economic burden to hospitals increased by nearly 12 percent annually. The research is published in the November 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online.

Patients at an academic medical center who are cared for by a hospital-based general physician may have a shorter length of hospital stay than those who are not, especially if the patients require close monitoring or complex discharge planning, according to a report in the Sept. 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

A review of six publicly available hospital comparison Web sites suggests that they display inconsistent results and use inappropriate or incomplete standards to measure quality, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

ADC today announced that Duke University Medical Center, together with its key Wireless Service Provider, has selected ADC's wireless Digivance(R) Indoor Coverage Solution (ICS) to provide wireless coverage inside its hospitals.

Siemens Communications, Inc. today announced that BryanLGH Medical Center in Lincoln, Neb., has chosen Siemens to upgrade its company-wide communications system. The new solution centralizes the company's communications resources, simplifies management of communications infrastructure and improves collaboration among healthcare staff.