Background: The high prevalence of diabetes makes it a common co-morbid condition in hospitalized patients. Healthcare systems have increasingly focused on 30-day readmission rates to improve quality and reduce costs. Readmission rates for patients with diabetes are much higher than the rate for all hospitalized patients. In a recent retrospective analysis, formal diabetes education by [...]

Case Presentation: A 4-day old male was born full term at an outside hospital to a mother with a new vesicular labial lesion found during vaginal delivery. A viral culture of the lesion and maternal Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) serology were obtained, but the patient did not undergo further work up or treatment in the [...]