Month: February 2023

Physicians, advanced practice providers and other caregivers within St. Charles Medical Group  have withdrawn their petition with the National Labor Relations Board for union representation.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health, which operates one of the largest hospitals in the country, reported net income of $58.1 million even as it struggled […]

A panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) narrowly voted in favor of the country’s first RSV vaccine for older adults, […]

A recently released report highlighted the ways in which the U.S. is failing to adequately address heart health — and as it did with many […]

After Roe v. Wade was overturned in June, patients seeking abortion care traveled to states where the practice was still legal. Some physicians say medical […]

The FBI says healthcare suffered more ransomware attacks than any other industry in 2022, though the agency may have helped stop more, BankInfoSecurity reported 

Here are five hospital and health systems partnerships with Big Tech companies that Becker’s reported on in February.

Access to physicians with shared backgrounds or experiences has been shown to enhance patient outcomes, and promoting diversity in healthcare is a top priority for […]

The Department of Energy’s recent conclusion that COVID-19 likely originated from a Chinese research lab has reignited debate over whether the pandemic occurred naturally or […]

Boston-based Tufts Medicine was downgraded from “BBB+” to “BBB” both on its default rating and on various bonds as the health system continues to endure […]

From signing 32 community hospital contracts to winning a federal patent infringement lawsuit, here are 11 times Becker’s reported on EHR vendor Oracle Cerner in […]

The Mississippi state legislature moved one step closer this week to expanding Medicaid coverage for new mothers up to a year — making it another […]

GoodRx’s financial challenges continued in the fourth quarter as the company’s revenue decreased by 14%. 

Denver Health and Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth plan to lift universal mask mandates March 1, Colorado Public Radio reported Feb. 27. 

Building a strong foundation for safe and equitable care is no easy task, especially amid pandemic-related disruptions and workforce shortages. But Keck Medicine of USC […]

The arrangement between Walmart and CareSource seeks to connect patients with food delivery and educational programs desgined to reduce health disparities in Ohio.

Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) wants to continue to grow its personal care and home health segments, the former of which being its largest segment […]

Madera (Calif.) Community Hospital officially shut its doors at midnight on Dec. 30, after Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health’s plan to buy the hospital fell through. […]

Houston-based Texas Heart Institute researchers potentially have found a new way to use cell therapy to treat chronic heart failure.

Bird flu, at this point, is somewhat of a misnomer. The virus, which primarily infects birds, is circulating uncontrolled around much of the world, devastating […]

Winston Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, now part of Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, has filed a certificate of need to build a $246 […]

East Lansing, Mich.-based MSU Health Care tapped Michael Weiner, DO, as its chief medical officer.

A federal judge ruled that New Hampshire’s practice of temporarily boarding mental health patients in hospital emergency departments is an illegal seizure of the hospitals’ […]

Sellersview, Pa.-based Grand View Health said it has formed an alliance with Doylestown (Pa.) Health to “deepen” the relationship between the two systems.

The American Hospital Association has elected Joseph Impicciche, CEO of St. Louis-based Ascension, to fill a vacancy on its board of trustees, the advocacy group’s […]

Steve Gordon, MD, was named president and CEO of Bend, Ore.-based St. Charles Health System.

As healthcare organizations face threats to the security of personally identifiable information in applications such as electronic health records, they need a zero-trust approach to […]

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for the U.S., but the nation continues to lag behind in addressing it — 27 states have […]

Nearly 38 million people in the U.S. are living with diabetes. It is a chronic health condition physicians receive copious training around, yet treating patients […]

Digital health and wellness platform Him & Hers reported revenue of $526.9 million for 2022, a 94 percent year-over-year increase.

Retail giant Walmart and managed care company CareSource are entering a three-year partnership aiming to address racial disparities and health inequities.

South Bend, Wash.-based Willapa Harbor Hospital is planning to build a $65 million facility on a recently purchased 20-acre plot of land in Raymond, Wash., […]

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) on Tuesday gave final approval to legislation that bars medical professionals from providing gender-affirming health care to transgender minors. The […]

Gallup, N.M.-based Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital is applying to become a critical access hospital; if CMS approves its application, it will reduce its bed capacity […]

Strict regulations on drug safety and testing make it difficult to develop new treatments for rare, obscure and deadly diseases, according to experts. As the […]

Rishi Shah’s defense attorney takes his shots at Ashik Desai, who testified as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

Brian Setzer has been at Walmart since 2021 serving as Walmart Health’s chief financial officer. He joined Walmart after seven years at Highmark Health, where […]

Thirty-three states have joined the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which provides physicians a voluntary, expedited pathway to practice in multiple states.

The U.S. and New York state settled with eight nursing home owners for $7,168,000 to resolve allegations they submitted claims to Medicaid for worthless services […]

Mayo Clinic’s expenses increased by $1.18 billion, or 8.1%, to $15.7 billion in 2022, including a 37% jump in contract labor spending.

New York City-based NYU Langone Health has deployed “digital patient hubs” to more than 1,600 inpatient beds across its hospitals.

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A KFF analysis finds that outreach to the new 988 number for the national suicide prevention and crisis hotline increased after its implementation in mid-July, […]

The crisis facing general practice in Northern Ireland is ‘off the scale’ – with more than 4% of practices handing back their contracts in the […]

The NHS is in ‘full-blown crisis’ but government recovery plans are failing, with key targets to cut long waits for care – including for cancer […]

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health has named Katie Ensign its new vice president of community investment and impact. 

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Former Cerner Vice President Kevin McArdle is co-founding and will serve as CEO of Big Band, a software-as-a-service holding company looking to deploy $100 million […]

Hospital and health system marketing leaders told Becker’s they’re using TikTok to reach its patients “where they are.”

Russian hacking group Killnet, which disrupted hospital and health system websites across the U.S. in February, might be behind an attack on nine Danish hospitals, […]

Among more than 180 of the largest U.S. cities, one in California is home to the happiest people, according to an analysis released Feb. 28 […]

A number of trends have gained traction on social media and in the workplace in recent months, with “conscious quitting” being among the most recent, […]

UC San Diego Health said it is in discussion to share an EHR system with El Centro (Calif.)  Regional Medical Center as part of a […]

Hospitals and health systems should hold off on their investments in large language models as there is currently no way to evaluate whether these tools […]

Deborah Birx, a physician who served as former President Trump’s coronavirus response coordinator, said on Tuesday that the U.S. isn’t doing enough to prevent another […]

Clover Health revenue increased 136.1% to $3.4 billion in 2022.

Telehealth startup Cerebral is laying off 15 percent of its staff, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 27. 

On July 16, 2022, the federally mandated crisis number, 988, became available to all landline and cell phone users, providing a single three-digit number to […]

An anonymous individual called Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare to notify the hospital that a PDF copy of a Medicare remittance report for Sentara’s lab services […]

A campaign pointing out negative statistics and experiences at New York City-based Maimonides Medical Center, with a video even likening it to being in prison, […]

A service launched by University of Florida Health in Gainesville is designed to assist patients in interpreting pharmacogenetic test results.

A little over a year since the online pharmacy launched in January 2022, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. has served 2 million customers. 

BetterNight, a virtual sleep care company, raised $33 million in growth funding.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday said it would restrict imports of xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that has “increasingly been found” in illicit […]

Mercy Iowa City Hospital, one of 23 affiliated hospitals of Des Moines, Iowa-based MercyOne, has retained Insight Health Partners as consultants after breaching debt coverage […]

COVID-19 activity declined significantly through the year, allowing the hospital operator to reduce labor vacancies and stop capping bed capacities at behavioral health hospitals, executives […]

The health system said contract labor increased 37% compared to the prior year as admissions declined year over year, due to capacity constraints and longer […]

The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme has been linked to a 20% reduction in the risk of developing diabetes, new research suggests.

In the early days of the pandemic, one of the scariest and most surprising features of SARS-CoV-2 was its stealth. Initially assumed to transmit only […]

This blog is a part of a series that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched to highlight the importance of patient safety […]

Hospital CEO exits hit a high in January, with 23 departures announced being the highest CEO turnover across 29 industries, according to one new analysis. 

Oceanside, Calif.-based Tri-City Healthcare District has named its chief medical officer, Gene Ma, MD, interim president and CEO. 

An Iowa nurse was sanctioned by the state Board of Nursing, then fired from two jobs, after adopting the baby of a former patient, the […]

A whistleblower and the DOJ allege that UPMC’s longtime head of cardiothoracic surgery, James Luketich, regularly performed as many as three complex surgeries at the […]

Ohio-based Cleveland Clinic researchers found erythritol, a popular artificial sweetener, is associated with increased risk of heart attack, stroke and clotting.

New York City-based Mount Sinai has launched a video series focused on celebrating its front-line workers. 

Death certificates will soon include long COVID-19 as a cause now that the CDC has broadened guidelines for certifying deaths.

Walmart has deployed a healthcare cloud from Microsoft and VMware on its Epic EHR across its more than 30 healthcare clinics.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center nursing legend Carl James, RN, died at 75 on Feb. 17.

The year is off to an unfriendly start for hospital finances, with a median margin of -1 percent for January, worsening from the margin recorded […]

Physicians and other health experts are emphasizing the need to focus on preventing the next disease outbreak and eliminate politics from science in response to […]

GoodRx agreed to pay a civil monetary penalty of $1.5 million for illegally sharing patient data to advertise on Facebook and Google. 

The February cyberattack on Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare will be “credit negative” for the health system, Moody’s said in a Feb. 27 report.

Seven CEOs left their roles or shared plans to retire in the month of February. 

Federal officials said Feb. 27 they are creating new divisions within the HHS Office for Civil Rights as part of efforts to shrink a growing […]

UC San Diego Health is stepping in to stabilize El Centro (Calif.) Regional Medical Center — a 161-bed hospital whose acting CEO and CFO resigned […]

Humana plans to use the proceeds to pay off debt, sustain operations and offset the costs of its Kindred At Home acquisition.

OhioHealth plans to invest $400 million to expand Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Central Ohio’s only downtown adult hospital, according to the health system.

New details about the fake nursing degree scheme demonstrate the ease with which aspiring nurses could purchase the fraudulent documents, Yahoo News reported Feb. 27.

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services reported a net income of $675.6 million in 2022, a 31.9 percent drop from $991.6 million the prior […]

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has reported $118 million in net income for the six months ending Dec. 31 as revenues increased to almost $5 billion.

From a Tennessee hospital reporting a RCM vendor data breach, to Olive AI announcing it is unloading its business line to focus on health system […]

Forget about layers of administration and siloed departments. When it comes to the skills needed to be a great hospital leader, Frank Beaman, CEO of […]

After 18 years as the CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, based in Oakland, Calif., overseeing 22 Kaiser Permanente hospitals, Robert Pearl, MD, knows a […]

01/03/2023 Physical activity could save ten thousand lives per year Image © Rawpixel.com  – stock.adobe.com ‘If everyone in the EU were to meet WHO recommended […]

01/03/2023 Physical activity could save 10 000 lives per year Image © Rawpixel.com  – stock.adobe.com ‘If everyone in the EU were to meet WHO recommended […]

St. Luke’s University Health Network in Bethlehem, Pa., is less than a week away from wrapping an expansion that has doubled the size of its […]

Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System rebranded to Salinas Valley Health to simplify its identity and better reflect the system’s growth.

Bellaire, Texas-based Harris Health System has injected about $4.8 billion into Harris County and another $900 million across the state.

Cullman (Ala.) Regional Medical Center’s 35-physician medical group plans to employ 20 more physicians this year, according to The Cullman Times.

Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica has agreed to sell its hospice and home-care business to Gentiva, a hospice company backed by Humana and private equity firm Clayton […]

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According to the National Institutes of Health, one in 10 Americans lives with a rare disease, which is a disease affecting fewer than 200,000 people. […]

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has made several leadership changes within its Massachusetts market.

A new analysis of health insurers’ 2021 financial data shows that insurers continue to report much higher gross margins per enrollee in the Medicare Advantage […]

Using health insurer financial data for 2021, we find that Medicare Advantage insurers reported gross margins that were at least twice as high as those […]

Nominations have been extended to 11:59 PM Pacific time on Friday.

New York City has long been a haven for people who want an abortion, and new city programs and policies aim to make sure it […]

President Biden is set to go in on congressional Republicans on Tuesday while giving a speech in Virginia Beach where he is expected to blast […]

The lab-leak theory lives! Or better put: It never dies. In response to new but unspecified intelligence, the U.S. Department of Energy has changed its […]

An ambitious paper by Chen et al. (2023) published last week aim to estimate the economic burden of cancer across 204 countries between 2020 and […]

A new study has found that a zero-calorie sweetener that is popular in ketogenic diets has been linked to strokes, heart attacks, blood clots and […]

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) revealed that he underwent surgery on Monday to remove cancerous tumors that he says he was diagnosed with last summer. “Today, […]

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that can have human-like conversations, translate, and provide users with information.  It can also write good content. Like, really […]

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that can have human-like conversations, translate, and provide users with information.  It can also write good content. Like, really […]

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