This is Randy Homan with Becker's Clinical Leadership Podcast.
Here's your daily industry news spree for May 16th.
First five defendants are pleading guilty to fraud conspiracy after
their alleged involvement in a nurse diploma scheme.
A district judge and federal court will the five on July 27th,
they could each face up to 20 years in prison during their guilty plea
hearings.
Four of the five also admitted to soliciting and recruiting people who sought
nursing credentials.
They also admitted to working with Palm Beach School of Nursing to create and
distribute fraudulent diplomas and transcripts.
All defendants profited from the scam.
These are five of the dozens charged for their participation in this scheme.
Second, a commentary published today in ins of internal medicine says,
mass shouldn't leave healthcare settings. Two.
Infectious disease physicians are the authors.
They say masking can be a patient safety measure,
especially with elderly and immunocompromised patients.
This comes a month after researchers published findings from a large London
hospital that showed removing mask rules did not result in a significant change.
Third,
uc Irvine is integrated wellbeing and compassion fatigue into its curriculum.
Nursing students are learning about these topics in a course like compassion,
caring, and communication with vulnerable populations,
as well as the leadership class where students develop modules for practicing
nurses to mitigate compassion fatigue.
The schools also considering whether students may have difficult and lengthy
classes back to back, and if there's room to separate them.
This could also impact traffic patterns and commuting times.
Fourth,
physicians at Dell Children's Medical Center are exiting the hospital amid a
state probe into the hospital's transgender care practices.
The physicians were part of its adolescence medicine clinic.
The hospital is part of Ascension.
Texas is investigating whether the hospital is illegally performing gender
transition surgeries on minors. In April,
the right wing group Project Betas issued a report.
It alleges the hospital was offering puberty blockers and other gender affirming
care.
Dell Children said it would conduct a thorough review since it prohibits surgery
and hormone therapy as treatments for children with gender dysphoria.
The hospital did not specify how many physicians are leaving the clinic or when
fifth year 10 hospitals or health systems that have been at risk of losing Summa
funding over the last year due to non-compliance with its policies.
Brinmar Hospital in North Carolina, St. Michael Medical Center in Washington,
Wilson Medical Center in North Carolina. St. Francis Health System in Oklahoma,
the University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City. John Muir's,
Walnut Creek Medical Center in California.
Oregon Health and Science University Hospital in Portland.
New Hanover Regional Medical Center in North Carolina.
University of North Carolina Medical Center and Eleanor Slater Hospital in
Rhode Island. For the full list of reasons, visit becker's hospital review.com.
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