Cleveland-based University Hospitals added a new artificial intelligence platform to 13 of its hospitals and dozens of outpatient locations.

Madera, Calif.-based Valley Children's Healthcare President and CEO Todd Suntrapak is responding to criticism of compensation packages for himself and other top executives. 

It's been a tough year for retail healthcare, with organizations such as Walmart, Walgreens' VillageMD and Dollar General all shuttering or scaling back services.

Matthew Cova has been tapped as CEO of Regional Medical Center in San Jose, Calif.

Supplementing gaps in nursing staff with lower-wage personnel like licensed practical nurses or aides can increase patient risks of readmission, death, longer stays and lower satisfaction, according to a study published June 10 in Medical Care.

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System has named Erin Hodson, MSN, vice president of revenue cycle, according to a June 11 post in her LinkedIn page.  

Following jousts between Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Novo Nordisk, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will vote June 18 on whether to subpoena the drugmaker's president about the cost of Ozempic and Wegovy. 

A North Carolina federal judge denied the Federal Trade Commission's request to bar Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health from acquiring two North Carolina hospitals from Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems until its appeal is resolved.

Massachusetts Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey have introduced the Corporate Crimes Against Health Care Act of 2024 in an attempt to remove "corporate greed and private equity abuse" in healthcare.

St. Louis-based Ascension has restored EHR access in 11 states in the wake of a recent cyberattack. 

Health system CFOs around the country are working to expand access to care, either organically or through strategic partnerships, and grow their businesses after a financially challenging couple of years. 

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a proposed rule that it said would eliminate as much as $49 billion of medical debts that "unjustly lowers credit scores for 15 million Americans."

Two senators accused UnitedHealthcare of violating HIPAA because the company has not sent out breach notifications for the February cyberattack on Change Healthcare, one of its subsidiaries. 

Allen Radner, MD, was named president and CEO of Salinas (Calif.) Valley Health. 

Federal authorities are investigating a 2023 data breach at a medical transcription company that may have compromised the personal information of up to 1.2 million patients at Chicago-based Cook County Health, NPR affiliate WBEZ reported June 10. 

Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital appointed Dr. Marc Bessler, MD, as the new chair of surgery. 

In response to the rise in cyberattacks targeting U.S. healthcare systems, Google has engaged in a partnership with the White House to help rural hospitals. 

It was a Saturday in August 2023 when Pascagoula, Miss.-based Singing River Health System experienced an outage of its electronic health records and related IT systems. "You have to joke about these things as you move past it, but we called it 'Red Saturday,'" Susan Russell, MSN, RN, Singing River's chief nursing officer, told Becker's. 

AdventHealth Shawnee Mission in Merriam, Kan., announced a $35,000 partnership with Pharmacy of Grace, a nonprofit in the Kansas City metropolitan area that provides pharmacy services to uninsured or underinsured patients.

As healthcare changes, what patients need from providers and hospitals is changing too and largely to do with communication, according to the 2024 National Consumer Healthcare Survey from healthcare consulting firm Jarrard.