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Carolyn Hayes, 2012 cohort member, reflects on how nurses provided quality care to patients and others traumatized by the bombing at the Boston Marathon.

The RWJF Human Capital Blog is asking diverse experts: What is and isn't working in health professions education today, and what changes are needed to prepare a high-functioning health and health care workforce that can meet the country's current and emerging needs? The 9/28 post is by Kate Driscoll Malliarakis, PhD, CNP, MAC.

Dr. Chater is named one of 40 RWJF Force Multipliers.

Executive Nurse Fellow Peggy Gordin, RN, MS: Making sure every health care provider has a say enhances patient safety and prevents crises at an award-winning children's hospital.

Nancy Ridenour, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, is dean of the University of New Mexico College of Nursing and an alumna of the RWJF Health Policy Fellows and Executive Nurse Fellows programs.

Medicare is withholding more than $1 million from metro Omaha and Lincoln hospitals because too many of their patients returned to the hospitals within a month of being sent home.

California health officials on Thursday unveiled the likely rates that insurers will charge under President Obama’s health-care law — and they are lower than expected, rebutting warnings by critics that many people will experience “rate shock” once the law is fully implemented.

Reading, writing, arithmetic — and PE? The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject. The report, released Thursday, says only about half of the nation's youngsters are getting at least an hour of vigorous or moderate-intensity physical activity every day.

Editor’s Note: This report was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

U.S. schools need to boost efforts to get students moving, and make gym class as critical as other core subjects if they want to increase test scores as well as students’ general well-being, a leading group of health advisers said yesterday.

Shoppers in the U.S. will soon have more information about where their meat comes from after new federal labeling rules went into effect Thursday.