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Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB), one of the largest freestanding home health and hospice companies in the market, intends to launch a strategic review process that […]

The nation’s health insurance system is undergoing tremendous upheaval as an estimated 8.2 million people will need to find new coverage since pandemic protections for […]

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — From an early age, Pasha Wrangell felt different. Societal expectations of boys, and many characteristics of masculinity, did not match how […]

Value-based care and operational context. Miss diagnosis. Explaining variation in health care costs: ⅘ utilization, ⅕ prices. All of Us. Enneagrams.

When life changes, your health coverage and saving options may change too. If you’ve had a change, like you got married or moved to a […]

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Wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui have killed six people, consumed homes and destroyed multiple commercial buildings — including one hospital-run clinic and one […]

Biosense Webster, a Johnson & Johnson-owned company focused on cardiac arrhythmia treatment, announced that several of its catheter products have received FDA approval for a […]

Dignity Health’s St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino, Calif., has named Charlie Abraham, MD, as its new chief medical officer, City News Group reported […]

NRC Health has identified 12 health systems, hospitals and medical groups that go above and beyond to provide excellence in patient experience, the healthcare data […]

Earlier this year, As You Sow issued its annual report on “overpaid” CEOs among the S&P 500. 

Andrew Chang has been named vice president and chief marketing officer of University of Chicago Medicine.

It’s a good question. 

As funding for healthcare artificial intelligence funding cools down in 2023, hospital leaders are targeting vendors that can be easily integrated within their system’s infrastructure. 

Sanford Health Fargo (N.D.) is launching Sanford Caresignal, a remote monitoring program that allows patients to self-report symptoms via call or text.

Four senators sent a letter to the IRS and the Treasury inspector general for tax administration asking them to probe nonprofit hospitals’ potential abuse of […]

Epic’s RCM software has the highest number of hospital installations, according to an Aug. 1 report from the data analytics company Definitive Healthcare.

Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System is extending any debt coverage obligation waivers until the end of 2023, the system said in an Aug. 9 filing.

The Missouri Department of Social Services released an advisory statement on Aug. 8 in response to IBM Consulting’s data security incident involving Progress Software’s MOVEit […]

Cleveland-based MetroHealth has reported a significant decrease in its operating income on revenue of $870.3 million for the first half of the year.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, plagued by financial troubles, is laying off 51 workers across support services, administration and service lines. 

UC Health is moving to a registered nurse-led site leadership model across the Cincinnati-based system.

When Cleveland Clinic said in 2022 it would charge patients up to $50 for sending certain MyChart messages to their physicians, many in the healthcare […]

A total of 108 team members will be affected by the closure of Lakeview, Mich.-based Spectrum Health Kelsey Hospital in October, a letter to the […]

Physicians make a lot of money, according to an Aug. 4 article in The Washington Post. Physicians know this, according to social media — and […]

Despite regulatory headwinds, The Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG) continues to build on successes in its home health and hospice segments. It’s doing so by […]

The Ohio State Medical Board indefinitely suspended the license of prominent anti-vaccine advocate and physician Sherri Tenpenny, DO, on Aug. 9.

Hospital pharmacy leaders are working on drug supply mitigation strategies every day, but they might be underutilizing their pharmacy technicians when it comes to spotting […]

Two industry leaders discuss how healthcare organizations are working to center consumer engagement amid growing competition. 

Hospitals and health systems around the country have been accused of sharing confidential patient information with social media giants such as Meta, Facebook and Google. […]

Sixty-four percent of hospital and health system leaders said generative AI will have a “huge impact” on healthcare in the next five years. 

Optum Ventures and Blue Cross of Idaho were among the backers of an $8 million funding round for Endear Health, a digital engagement platform specializing […]

Health systems are happy to point out how their contract labor costs are declining significantly from COVID-19 highs as results season gets into full swing. […]

Ashley Hindman was named CEO of two North Carolina hospitals that are part of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Duke LifePoint Healthcare.

Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, Ind., has the fastest median time to transfer a patient to another facility for acute coronary intervention, CMS found.

MemorialCare has tapped Todd Blake as chief operating officer of two California hospitals: Long Beach Medical Center and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Long Beach. 

Southern Illinois Healthcare is facing a lawsuit for allegedly using pixel tracking technology on its website that allowed third parties to gain access to some […]

Walmart Healthcare Research Institute is seeking a director of operations and implementation. 

Nurses are raising concerns surrounding how the opening of Kaiser Permanente’s third hospital in the San Diego area is affecting staffing at the health system’s […]

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth has chosen Medline as its primary supplies vendor for years, but with a new deal, the two companies said Aug. 9 […]

With hospitals reporting packed emergency rooms and halted surgeries as parts of the nation swelter, the HHS launched the first national dashboard to track heat-related […]

Five of U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-24 Honor Roll hospitals were also listed on Healthgrades’ 2023 “America’s 50 Best Hospitals” list.

St. Louis-based Mercy has named a new senior vice president and chief people officer: Catherine Codispoti. 

The number of lawsuits filed against former psychiatrist Brian Hyatt, MD, has grown to 31, 5 News Online reported Aug. 8.

North Dakota has the lowest average turnover rate for registered nurses while New Mexico has the highest, CMS found.

Texas County Memorial Hospital received a $47,450 grant to implement an FDA-approved artificial intelligence tool to enhance stroke care.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia received a $1 million gift from the Giant Company to expand its food pharmacy program.

Hospitals are expected to focus more on providing care for high-acuity patients as healthcare is increasingly being delivered at home, according to Monique Reese, DNP, […]

Advocates are pushing regulators to investigate if racism played a part in the death of a patient at Inglewood, Calif.-based Centinela Hospital, but the state […]

Many health insurance policies are a burden to patients and strain hospitals’ finances and burden physician time, Rick Pollack, president and CEO of the American […]

While three health systems recently announced plans to close emergency departments, several others are working on projects to build or expand their departments. Here are […]

Official figures for cancelled NHS appointments and procedures due to junior doctor and consultant industrial action are only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ – and […]

Official figures for cancelled NHS appointments and procedures due to junior doctor and consultant industrial action are only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ – and […]

With healthcare being a 24/7/365 business, Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, N.Y., said hospital CEOs have a responsibility to be […]

Health systems in Minnesota, California and Florida opened up new hospitals.

Surgeons at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine have successfully performed double lung transplants on two patients with situs inversus, a rare condition in which patients’ organs in […]

Large tech disruptors such as Amazon and smaller digital health companies have laid off workers as the industry experiences post-COVID-19 churn.

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) pointed out Wednesday that only 1% of care in the U.S. is delivered in the home. It also pointed out that […]

Some experts are concerned that new COVID-19 shots that would be more effective at preventing severe disease from current circulating strains than the existing bivalent […]

Sherrie Somers, DO, has been named the new chief medical officer of HCA Florida’s North Florida Hospital in Gainesville, according to an Aug. 7 news […]

Coeur D’Alene, Idaho-based Kootenai Health has reduced its contract labor costs significantly so far in 2023, but its labor and overall expenses still increased in […]

A large majority of Americans said abortion as an important issue for them in a new The Economist/YouGov survey. The poll, published Wednesday, found that […]

The Massachusetts Department of Health determined that UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital Leominster (Ma.) Campus’ maternity ward is an essential service, complicating plans from the system […]

Three of Mon Health System’s four hospitals are implementing a software that uses barcoding and cameras to verify sterile compounding doses, the Morgantown, W.Va.-based system […]

MemorialCare’s Long Beach (Calif.) Medical Center and Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach have a new chief operating officer, Todd Blake, and CFO, Patti […]

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, the largest operator of hospitals in the country, is further developing its presence in Virginia with plans to add to its […]

Amazon’s One Medical is opening its first Connecticut location in Darien as the group partners with Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare, CT Insider reported Aug. 8.

VillageMD’s Summit Health opened a new 30,000-square-foot multispeciality healthcare center in New York, continuing its rapid growth.

Healthcare C-suites are zeroing in on system “redesigns” to provide more care and services with fewer staff members and tighter margins than ever before.

Monique Reese, DNP, RN, senior vice president of home and community care at Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health, said the system has seen the average number of […]

Patients with commercial insurance or those enrolled in privately-managed Medicare and Medicaid plans were responsible for 59 percent of Universal Health Services’ patient service revenues […]

An American nurse and her child on a humanitarian mission in Haiti have been freed two weeks after they were kidnapped and held hostage. 

Here are four hospitals and health systems appointing new IT executives to their teams as reported by Becker’s since July 26:

All elective surgeries at a Miami VA Hospital were halted Aug. 8 after an air conditioning unit stopped working, the Miami Herald reported.

The Biden administration on Wednesday launched a new information system to map emergency medical services (EMS) responses to heat-related illness across the country. The online […]

Oracle Health will soon be right in the middle of healthcare’s American “mecca” when its parent company opens a new $1.35 billion facility in Nashville, […]

CMS is making key changes to HCAHPS to modernize the survey and increase patient response rates, the agency said in its Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment […]

Patient data from Chicago-based Lurie Children’s Surgical Foundation was leaked due to a breach on its third-party electronic billing provider, NextGen Healthcare. 

Krista Curell, RN, has been appointed executive vice president and COO of University of Chicago Health System, according to an all-staff message shared with Becker’s.

Hospital and health system executives are cutting service lines operating at a loss to shore up finances, address staffing shortages and focus on more in-demand […]

From “loud quitting” to “quiet quitting,” various workforce trends have gained traction in recent years. Among the latest trends: “Grumpy staying.” 

The study, published in Health Affairs, found large national insurers had higher price ratios than other payers.

Home-based care has come a long way since 2020. But for the industry to rise to the next level and better leverage innovative technologies, a […]

The home health industry has gained a front-and-center seat at the table within payer and health system boardrooms. Yet at times, providers still feel like […]

Medford, Ore.-based Asante Health, which will soon have a new president and CEO, reported operating income of $9.5 million for the second quarter on revenue […]

The vast majority of Americans prefer to age in place and receive post-hospital care in the home. Despite that fact, current reimbursement structures from fee-for-service […]

Prospect Medical Holdings, a private equity-backed hospital owner based in Culver City, Calif., has been dealing with a ransomware attack since Aug. 3 that has […]

Bright Health Group narrowed its net loss 56% to $125 million as revenue nearly doubled to $298 million during the second-quarter.

Hospital CEO turnover remained depressed last year, according to one report, but separate research suggests executive changes were on the rise as of June.

The nation’s largest for-profit health systems have filed their second-quarter earnings reports, detailing payer mixes by patient service revenue, patient admissions, or both in the […]

Robbinsdale, Minn.-based North Memorial Health Care has been downgraded from “Baa1” to “Baa2” as it faces a number of headwinds while low on cash, Moody’s […]

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso received a $25 million gift from the Fox Family Foundation to help build West Texas’ first comprehensive […]

Five cancer hospitals received a perfect score from CMS for moderate-to-severe pain care plans.

Nationally, the rate of hospital CEO turnover in 2022 was 16 percent, according to the American College of Healthcare Executives. 

NHS screening for bowel cancer has reduced incidence of the disease by 15% in England, a new study has found.

NHS screening for bowel cancer has reduced incidence of the disease by 15% in England, a new study has found.

NHS screening for bowel cancer has reduced incidence of the disease by 15% in England, a new study has found.

AdventHealth in Hendersonville, N.C., received a citation after a behavioral health patient was not allowed to speak to a patient advocate, Citizen Times reported Aug. […]

It’s been almost four months since the National Council of State Boards of Nursing released a study that sounded alarms throughout healthcare. 

Amazon partnered with Maven Clinic to provide women’s healthcare services for the company’s employees in 50 countries outside of the U.S. and Canada.

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America needs more nurses — not just helping patients, but running the business of healthcare, Joel Theisen, BSN, RN, wrote in an opinion piece posted […]

The number of healthcare mergers and acquisitions continued to decline in the second quarter of 2023, with the volume of deals at the lowest level […]

The letter, sent by a bipartisan group of senators to tax commissioners, comes as the federal government increases scrutiny into nonprofit hospitals’ charity care spending.

Clover notched its first quarterly adjusted EBITDA profit as a public company, while Oscar reached total company profitability for the second quarter in a row. […]

In 2023, more than half (51%) of eligible Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans. This brief provides current information about Medicare Advantage enrollment, […]

Annual bonus payments from the federal government to Medicare Advantage insurers have increased every year since 2015 and will reach at least $12.8 billion in […]

This brief provides information about Medicare Advantage plans in 2023, including premiums, cost sharing, out-of-pocket limits, supplemental benefits, prior authorization, and star ratings, as well […]

The GMC has announced changes to how it will register GPs who have not completed standard GP training in the UK from the end of […]

The GMC has announced changes to how it will register GPs who have not completed standard GP training in the UK from the end of […]

The GMC has announced changes to how it will register GPs who have not completed standard GP training in the UK from the end of […]

The modifications to the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey have been years in the making.

A major fight is brewing between the Biden administration and the powerful nursing home industry over a proposed minimum staffing requirement for the nation’s 15,500 […]

President Biden is leaning into lowering health care costs as the White House shifts into campaign mode, but the issue is barely mentioned by the […]

Since July, The Joint Commission has eliminated 200 additional standards from accreditation programs, launched a new certification for assisted living facilities and more. 

LOS ANGELES — The aim is aspirational: Hospital executives shouldn’t make more than the president of the United States. Next spring, Los Angeles city voters […]

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Ohio Democrats celebrated the results of Tuesday’s special election, in which voters rejected a ballot measure that would have made it harder to amend the […]

A proposed constitutional amendment at the center of the abortion rights battle in Ohio is projected to fail, delivering a major win for Democrats and […]

The COVID-19 omicron subvariant EG.5 is now the most dominant strain in the U.S. according to the latest genomic surveillance data from the Centers for […]

Oscar Health narrowed its net loss 86.2% to $15.4 million as revenue grew 49.6% to $1.5 billion during the second quarter, the health insurer reported […]

Optum has partnered with online educator Capella University to launch an educational program for advanced practice nurses in an effort to address the nationwide shortage. 

Doctors whose primary medical qualification was obtained outside the UK make up more than a third of GPs and up to 80% of GP trainees […]

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has been a part of arguably the biggest home health story this year. UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum agreed to acquire […]

COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. are ticking up again, albeit from record lows. There were 9,056 new admissions for the week ending July 29, marking […]

As hospital and health system leaders try to separate artificial intelligence hype from potential, CB Insights ranked the most promising generative AI startups.

While a number of employees in the global workforce are staying with their jobs, there are also those who are watching for or actively seeking […]

NRC Health has identified 100 top-performing hospitals through its annual healthcare consumer-perception survey, the healthcare data firm said Aug. 8.

Signify Health – a part of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) – recently rolled out a comprehensive in-home kidney health evaluation as part of its diagnostic […]

The American Hospital Association has tapped nine hospital and health system leaders from across the country to join its board of trustees in 2024, effective […]

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist has named a new president, David Zaas, MD.

As a new school year winds up, something has shifted in the top offices of America’s elite universities — for the first time in history, […]

Cleveland-based University Hospitals tapped Harris Data Integrity Solutions to clean up Concord Township, Ohio-based Lake Health’s patient index before transitioning to Epic.

Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health is laying off hundreds of employees, including 20 percent of leadership positions, due to “current national and statewide economic trends.”

Pensacola, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care is on track to welcome its first patients in September at the system’s new $660 million Brent Lane campus, four […]

Megan Coder, chief policy officer and founding member of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, discusses a recent bill that could affect the nascent sector.

With an updated vaccine still months away, this summer bump in new hospitalizations might be concerning, but the number of patients is far lower than […]

The rate of hospital CEO turnover in 2022 was 16 percent, the third year in a row with the same rate and the lowest the […]

Ana Sirbu was hired as the new CFO of LeanTaaS, a hospital operations software developer.

Orlando (Fla.) Health has opened a new resource center designed specifically to help individuals who may not have access to a primary care physician with […]

Laura Wood, DNP, RN, has been tapped to lead the American Nurses Credentialing Center as its new president, according to an Aug. 8 news release. 

Meera Udayakumar, MD, joined UNC Health Rex in Raleigh, N.C., in 2008 and worked her way up to medical director of several groups before finally […]

Primary care is the backbone of healthcare and the only part of the healthcare system where increased supply is linked to improved health, lifespan and […]

A group of Arizona organizations have filed to add a ballot measure to the 2024 general election that would amend the state’s constitution to guarantee […]

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit from NYU Langone Health that alleges the health system used a […]

A new study found two in every five deaths in the Americas involved infection associated with antimicrobial resistance.

Companies that allow employees to work remotely are hiring new workers at nearly double the rate of organizations based strictly in-office, according to Forbes. 

A growing disparity between the number of patients and nurses assigned to them is helping lead to increasing violence in healthcare facilities, according to an […]

Quest Diagnostics acquired assets from NewYork-Presbyterian’ lab business in an all-cash transaction for $275 million, according to financial documents filed July 27 with the Securities […]

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia sent a letter to Google executives on Aug. 8 expressing concerns about Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot created by the […]

Most Americans in a new poll said they would take candidates’ abortion policies into consideration before voting them into public office. The new CNN poll […]

The expansion and modernization project at Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center Sameth Emergency Department is on schedule and expected to be completed in 2024. 

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are working to understand how a condition that can be difficult to spot, known as patient-ventilator asynchrony — PVA […]

An AI-powered machine learning tool may allow physicians to better identify origins in enigmatic cancers, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in […]

Northfield (Minn.) Hospital will close its 40-bed, long-term care center this October due to staffing and financial challenges, according to an Aug. 7 news release.