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A wrap for the first cohort of the Nurse Innovation Fellowship Program
Members of the first cohort of the Nurse Innovation Fellowship Program by Johnson & Johnson in a classroom.

The teams represented geographically diverse institutions from areas across the U.S., from large and small health systems as well as stand-alone hospitals and public health systems in urban and rural locations.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Nursing News)

A wrap for the first cohort of the Nurse Innovation Fellowship Program

For the past year, 10 teams of two senior nurse leaders from across the country had the opportunity to focus on a problem unique to their health care system through the joint program between Penn Nursing and The Wharton School.

From Penn Nursing News

Catalyzing reform in health care payment
A medical professional and a patient looking at a computer screen.

Image: iStock/SeventyFour

Catalyzing reform in health care payment

Penn’s Parity Center engages an interdisciplinary team of experts to collaborate with health insurers, health systems, physician practices and policymakers. Deputy director Austin S. Kilaru describes the Center’s mission, success, and future.

From the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics

Why many nonprofit (wink, wink) hospitals are rolling in money
The Washington Post

Why many nonprofit (wink, wink) hospitals are rolling in money

Lawton Burns of the Wharton School says that nonprofit-hospital CEOs use corporate rhetoric to justify engaging in for-profit business while maintaining their not-for-profit status.

Lisa Jarvis: The Supreme Court put health care at risk
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Lisa Jarvis: The Supreme Court put health care at risk

Holly Fernandez Lynch of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the language for approving a drug in the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act is too ambiguous.

Better survival rates from hospital-based donor care for lung transplants
lungs suspended in a block of ice.

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Better survival rates from hospital-based donor care for lung transplants

A new study by Penn researchers has examined, for the first time, the differences in lung transplant graft outcomes from organs recovered from the two types of deceased organ donor care facilities operating in the United States.

From Penn Medicine News

There’s a right way—and a wrong way—to snack
The Wall Street Journal

There’s a right way—and a wrong way—to snack

Christina A. Roberto of the Perelman School of Medicine suggests that, if you do snack at night, decide what to eat ahead of time.