MedStar Health Blog

MedStar Health regularly updates, revises and creates new policies for the operational efficiency of the organization. A new policy and associated procedure related to the application of Uniform Guida...

Although not as common as other cancers, throat cancer will affect some 53,000 Americans this year and nearly 11,000 will die of the disease. This cancer can start in the mouth or tongue, as we w...

Congratulations to all MedStar researchers who had articles published in November 2020. The selected articles and link to PubMed provided below represent the body of work completed by MedStar Health i...

For the third quarter of 2020, we awarded two individuals with the SPIRIT Award for the first time in one quarter, Keith Moyer and Eva Hochberger. Keith Moyer was awarded the SPIRIT of Excellence Awar...

Recently published research evaluated pre-op and post-op patient questionnaires to identify if patient responses were related to subsequent emergency department visits 90-days after surgery. “Ri...

Throughout the national health systems, social determinants of health are frequently present which negatively impact health-related outcomes despite excellent medical care.  Four of these determi...