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Archived Becker's Hospital Review E-Newsletters

November 22, 2024

• HCA to buy Fla. hospital | Investors react to Dr. Oz | UNC Health lays off leaders | Physician gets 190 years for IV tampering | CIO pay, employment: 8 notes

November 21, 2024

• Texas hospital to close | Dr. Oz on Medicare Advantage: 5 notes | NY system cuts regional CEO roles | Mass General physicians join competitor | 2025's hospital C-suite buzzword

November 20, 2024

• Dr. Oz for CMS: 10 notes | CEO, COO exit Ala. hospital | Mich. hospital loses Medicare funding | Providence names COO | Aetna workers charged in fraud scheme

November 19, 2024

• An election outcome system CEOs agree on | CHS eyes 'offensive' pivot | CommonSpirit posts $331M loss | GLP-1 spending up 250% for payer | 27 systems moving to Epic

November 18, 2024

• Another healthcare bankruptcy | Telehealth flexibilities extended: 5 notes | 20 best places to retire: US News | EHR install costs at 13 systems | How Intermountain unlocked 6,800+ employee ideas

November 17, 2024

• CIOs on Oracle's EHR: 'We need good competition' | Providence 'stay interviews' retain staff | How a system merged 2 century-old brands | What retail pharmacy closures spell for healthcare

November 17, 2024

• 17 big systems getting bigger | 11 health systems leading in AI | 8 forecasts for hospital profitability in 2025 | 55 hospitals closing, scaling back care | 69 hospital executives on their major wins

November 16, 2024

• Ascension trims services in Wis. | IU Health consolidates regions | ED physicians go unpaid at Calif. hospital | 41 systems ranked by margins | Ex-hospital CEO sentenced for corruption

November 15, 2024

• RFK Jr. for HHS: 7 notes | 26 hospitals ace, flunk patient safety: Leapfrog | Advocate sees $885M operating gain | UVM cuts jobs | HHS sued over Medicare Advantage records

November 14, 2024

• Calif. system to sell 10 hospitals | Baystate cuts 134 management roles | How 15 systems' labor costs are trending | Ascension clinical leader takes on new role | AHA's lame-duck wish list

November 13, 2024

• DOJ sues UnitedHealth | 82 financially strong systems | Providence CEO: 'Old-school M&A is dead' | Healthcare's most dangerous workplaces | 5 systems shrinking hospital portfolios

November 12, 2024

• Hospital M&A surges: 11 deals to watch | Oracle's new EHR: What to know | Texas, Wis. system CEOs to exit | CHS on track for $1B in hospital sales | 31 system, MA breakups

November 11, 2024

• Jefferson delays 42K staff raises | NY system lays off managers | The ACA's future: 17 notes | Memorial Hermann's $500M EHR overhaul | Kaiser posts $608M Q3 loss

November 10, 2024

• Virtual health coverage nears end: 5 updates | 100 hospitals with great oncology programs | The payer mix of each state | 32 executive moves | CHS to divest another hospital

November 09, 2024

• NC hospital files for bankruptcy | 8 Epic switches | Ariz. system CEO to step down | CommonSpirit plans Denver campus | Optum, Aetna to settle 'dummy code' lawsuit

November 08, 2024

• UPMC to lay off workers | Hospital M&A surges | Ascension reorganizes portfolio | A system CEO who knows staying power | Payers ranked by profits

November 07, 2024

• Health systems eye market exits | Trump win lifts Medicare Advantage | Joint Commission reporting changes: 5 notes | CommonSpirit hires Oracle Health exec | 20 top hospitals have 14,000+ open jobs

November 06, 2024

• Trump wins: 7 notes for healthcare leaders | AdventHealth, Walmart partner | The latest cyberthreat? Bored teens | Tenn. hospital CEO to step down | Hospitals' chronic payment problem

November 05, 2024

• 5 healthcare ballot measures to watch | Judy Faulkner's leadership philosophy | Hospitals slam site-neutral payment plan | Pros and cons of 'CEO lifers' | Why hospitals still can't get supplies

November 04, 2024

• NJ system files for bankruptcy | Epic advances interoperability | CMS' 3 final payment rules: 11 notes | NY hospital CEO to exit | Novant adds 200 providers

November 03, 2024

• A quiet driver of the RN shortage | How an introverted CEO led through bankruptcy | WVU Med's buying spree: What's next | Stanford puts nurses in tech development | When competitors become collaborators

November 03, 2024

• 35 systems' cash on hand | HCA pursuing $6B in projects | 6 notes on this virus season | Epic and Oracle: 28 updates | BCBS Texas drops MD Anderson in big split

November 02, 2024

• Ascension sells 5-hospital system | Providence RNs push back on virtual nursing | CMS finalizes 2.8% physician pay cut | Which EHRs do small hospitals prefer? | The rise of hospitalists, explained

November 01, 2024

• New capacity mandate takes effect: 10 notes | Steward sells physician group | Baxter ramps up IV manufacturing | 25 hospitals scaling back care | Retired CEO returns to Fla. system

October 31, 2024

• 79 financially stable systems | Upload X-rays to my AI, Elon Musk suggests | Pa. AG accuses Prospect of 'self-serving' management | How much are CIOs earning? | Mercy SVP: Some payers 'simply aren't adding value'

October 30, 2024

• 2 Ill. hospitals to close | Tenet sells 14 hospitals for $4.8B | Oracle to launch new EHR | Ascension opens $200M hospital | Pa. system sale collapses

October 29, 2024

• 16 big systems grow bigger | Baxter extends IV expiration dates | HCA hospital expansion gets pushback | UPMC nurses win 'historic' raises | Lee Health clears final privatization hurdle

October 28, 2024

• MD Anderson dropped from BCBS Texas plans | 50 notes on hospital consolidation | CEO shares grim prognosis for Mass. hospitals | 10 healthiest, unhealthiest cities | Where HCA sees value in Valesco

October 27, 2024

• HCA CEO decries 'way too many denials' | Trump, Harris on drug prices: 6 notes | 11 payer-provider M&A deals | 213 CNOs to know | 35 things to know about Oracle Health

October 26, 2024

• OHSU president steps down | Baxter site to resume IV fluid production | Lee Health expects $1B gain from privatization | 2-midnight triggers 'aggressive' payer tactics: CHS | EHR install costs at 12 systems

October 25, 2024

• CHS divests more hospitals amid $205M loss | Jefferson exec heads to BayCare | What's driving NYU's transplant breakthroughs? | Orlando Health buys 3 hospitals | Why MyChart's AI is unregulated

October 24, 2024

• HCA continues its climb | Advocate hires Mercy exec | Newly merged system picks Oracle for EHR | Ala. faces 3rd hospital closure this year | Sanford, Marshfield to combine 56 hospitals

October 23, 2024

• HCA nurses secure AI protections | Jefferson plans $900M in capital projects | NC system president steps down | Top hospitals for specialty care | Is free med school easing primary care shortages?

October 22, 2024

• Advocate redesigns nurse manager role | Days of FFS 'running out' | Novant's vision for SC market | Ill. system CFO resigns | Shame in healthcare: 4 notes

October 21, 2024

• Cleveland Clinic, One Medical partner | NJ MSO to operate nonprofit, for-profit hospitals | Police shoot man in Ky. ED | Maine system cuts exec jobs | How Judy Faulkner will distribute her wealth

October 20, 2024

• How Ballad navigated a 1-in-5,000-year event | Healthcare roles that retain Gen Z | Big systems bet on outpatient care | CIOs can't be the 'senator from IT' | Hospitals' key to financial viability

October 20, 2024

• Costs of ED boarding: 4 notes | 61 hospital layoffs | 25 systems opting for Epic | PX budgets get a boost | 5 systems form new exec roles

October 19, 2024

• Health systems take over Optum clinics | Calif., Mass. systems lay off managers | Why IV shortages have long plagued healthcare | Cigna, Humana resume merger talks: Report | CVS ousts CEO

October 18, 2024

• 50 notes on Epic | Top Providence exec exits | Senate scrutinizes MA denials: 10 takeaways | 15 systems delaying elective surgeries | Trinity's 'revenue engine'

October 17, 2024

• 24 systems preferred 2:1 over competitors | 20 tips for hospitals amid IV fluid shortage | Change cyberattack costs near $3B | Why hundreds of pharmacies are closing | 5 notes on higher healthcare wages in Calif.

October 16, 2024

• Hospitals resist capacity mandate: 6 notes | UnitedHealth wants 'less abrasion' with hospitals | Novant exec heads to UF Health | Ascension plans $200M hospital | 28 Medicare Advantage breakups

October 15, 2024

• Fla. system to go private | Baxter starts IV fluid imports | Medicare enrollment begins: 10 notes | Epic as 'important as a new building,' system CEO says | FDA's mammogram rule stirs Qs

October 14, 2024

• CommonSpirit plans EHR consolidation | Quorum buys Texas hospitals | System downgrades pile up: 21 latest | Ex-hospital CEO faces conspiracy charge | CEOs: Don't underestimate retail healthcare

October 13, 2024

• 8 systems delaying surgeries amid IV shortages | 26 for-profit hospital deals | 42 hospital closures, service cuts | Stars fall for Medicare Advantage: 5 takeaways | 10 best, worst states for healthcare access

October 12, 2024

• 14-hospital system splits with UnitedHealth | FTC's premerger rule: 9 notes | Epic, Microsoft deepen partnership | Adventist may scrap hospital lease | CVS to exit infusion business

October 11, 2024

• Iowa hospital closes | Texas system wraps Epic switch | Hospitals sick of Medicare Advantage fights | Fla. hospitals reopen | 14 open CEO jobs

October 10, 2024

• Hospitals and Milton: 9 notes | US considers IV fluid plan | Mount Sinai exec heads to Eli Lilly | Steward abandons Mass. hospital | Medicare GLP-1 spend could hit $35B by 2034

October 09, 2024

• Some IV shipments resume: 5 updates | 4 major nonprofit systems partner | How UH won board approval for a $400M EHR | MetroHealth taps CEO | UHS faces $895M in damages

October 08, 2024

• 10 top children's hospitals: US News | Fla. hospitals brace for 2nd hurricane | Epic sues staffing firm over trademark | Kaiser, HCA expand partnership | How Ascension, CommonSpirit + Trinity stack up

October 07, 2024

• Hospital supply disruptions ahead | 26 for-profit hospital deals | CMS' proposed ACA rules: 10 notes | Vt. system halts $129M project | Trump, Harris debt projections: 4 takeaways

October 06, 2024

• Why CHS isn't buying hospitals | Should systems monetize patient data? | Tufts CEO backs physician-led transformation | How Banner boosted operating income | A purposeful C-suite exit

October 06, 2024

• The startup taking on Epic | 2 more systems switch to Epic | The 73 drugs made at Baxter's flooded plant | 15 systems outsourcing RCM | 52 growing nursing programs

October 05, 2024

• IV shortage hits hospitals | FTC may weigh in on Epic suit | HonorHealth adds 3 hospitals | Ex-Tenet execs face $400M fraud trial | Novant wraps 20-property transaction

October 04, 2024

• Hospitals and Helene aftermath: 14 notes | Calif. sues another hospital | Hospitals left behind amid surging M&A | AI can do just 5% of jobs: MIT prof | UnitedHealthcare sues CMS over 1 phone call

October 03, 2024

• 16 hospitals change hands in a day | Longtime CEOs retire | Another Blue Cross plan exits Medicare Advantage | CommonSpirit hires Ascension exec | Wage hike kicks in for Calif. healthcare

October 02, 2024

• Tenet, CHS offload hospitals | Ascension, Henry Ford form JV: 7 notes | HCA renames 9 hospitals | CVS lays off 2,900, mulls break up | Calif. sues Providence over denied abortion

October 01, 2024

• A system where RNs lead hospitals | 75 financially strong systems | Helene may disrupt IV supplies | Fla. system invests $160M in Epic | 21 CEO moves at HCA

September 30, 2024

• Steward CEO out, sues senators: 6 notes | Tenn. hospital closes after Helene: 8 updates | Vance, Walz records breached | 19 systems hit with credit downgrades | Judy Faulkner's succession plan

September 29, 2024

• 25 systems' cash on hand | Another system hedges its MA bets | 37 hospital closures, service cuts | Physician pay, recruitment: 10 notes | 77 AMC finance leaders to know

September 28, 2024

• Epic, Particle's feud: 6 notes | Sentara to cut 200 jobs | Hospitals assess Helene damage: 7 updates | NC requires armed police in EDs | 5 Ozempic updates

September 27, 2024

• CHS plans Pa. exit | Hospitals and Helene: 8 notes | 10 systems with brighter outlooks | Emory adds Mount Sinai exec | CommonSpirit cuts losses | OHSU, Legacy further deal

September 26, 2024

• Steward CEO held in contempt. Now what? | Banner hires former Tenet exec | What's the 'average' health system? | Mark Cuban's move to save millions | 25 best nursing programs: US News

September 25, 2024

• 3 execs to exit Baystate | Novo Nordisk open to GLP-1 price drop | Ind., Ky. systems to combine | Bon Secours exec joins Orlando Health | RN turnover, vacancy rates by year

September 24, 2024

• Epic's antitrust suit: 7 notes | Inside the GLP-1 'price war' | 116 hospitals with lowest readmission rates | Texas system, ChatGPT creator partner | 5 hospitals seeking CEOs

September 23, 2024

• Ala. hospital abruptly closes | Lifespan cuts 20% of execs | Why Ozempic's price may fall | Md. to drop Kaiser Medicaid | How systems find AI, cyber talent

September 22, 2024

• Trinity's plan for outpatient growth | OSU Wexner tackles 'pajama time' | CNOs shift focus as workforce stabilizes | One CEO's unforgettable patient | Why hospital boards need CHROs

September 22, 2024

• 16 big systems getting bigger | RN pay, state by state | GLP-1 projections + pills | 313 quietest hospitals | 42 executive moves

September 21, 2024

• FTC v. PBMs: 10 things to know | Michigan Med names next CEO | Ill. system adds 17th hospital | Intermountain exec exits | Mayo Clinic widens global network

September 20, 2024

• Optum plans layoffs | Hospital AI firm reaches settlement | Tenet sees reallocation pay off | Senators vote to hold Steward CEO in contempt | Union funds campaign against NewYork-Presbyterian

September 19, 2024

• NJ system braces for 2,602 layoffs | Ascension posts $1.8B annual loss | White House pushes patient safety agenda: 8 notes | Main Line Health CEO to retire | Texas system ends MA plan

September 18, 2024

• Too big to fail?' A cautionary tale for systems | Ozempic generics could cost 90% less | Cigna sues FTC | Calif. clarifies CRNAs' scope | The rise of custom Epic apps

September 17, 2024

• HCA Mission CEO steps down | Mo. hospital to close | Jefferson exec joins RWJBarnabas | Projected RN supply by state | ProMedica to sell Mich. hospital

September 16, 2024

• Healthcare fades from election agenda | 72 financially strong systems | Ore. system cuts exec pay | What's coming for Epic? | Hackensack plans 24/7 virtual primary care

September 15, 2024

• 32 hospital closures, service cuts | Hospital keeps name after lawsuit | 50 hospital layoffs | Patients caught in hospital-payer crossfire | GLP-1s and insurance coverage: 10 key numbers

September 14, 2024

• Payer intensifies Ozempic crackdown | Fla. system dismisses CEO | CommonSpirit arm taps president | 80 hospitals sue HHS | Why some hospitals are thriving financially

September 13, 2024

• 17 best system employers: Fortune | Steward CEO skips Senate hearing | Henry Ford starts $2.2B expansion | Longtime Texas Children's CEO to retire | Hospital safety's big rebound

September 12, 2024

• Another system ditches health plan | How Oracle, Epic differ: Larry Ellison | 36 systems ranked by revenue | Hospital admin costs 'skyrocketing': AHA | UNC Health plans $462M hospital

September 11, 2024

• Trump, Harris debate: 3 healthcare takeaways | Calif. hospital halts operations | Mercy buys Ascension hospital | Kaiser, CommonSpirit expand partnership | Systems embrace physician flexibility

September 10, 2024

• Great disruption' looms for MA | Northwell earmarks $1B for Epic | Calif. hospital CEO exits after 10 mos. | Are GLP-1 shortages easing? | Johns Hopkins exec heads to UF Health

September 09, 2024

• 15 specialties with largest pay jumps | UVA Health defends CEO, dean | Mental health parity final rule: 7 notes | Mass General Brigham revamps cancer care | 10 happiest states

September 08, 2024

• How systems compete on exec pay | 'A nurses' nurse' CNO | What Epic's interoperability push means for hospitals | CEO revives 'bleeding' system | The case for triad leadership

September 08, 2024

• The healthcare job facing outsized shortage | 23 Medicare Advantage breakups | 31 systems ranked by margins | The top hospitals for physician communication

September 07, 2024

• Is Epic getting too big? | Faculty lose confidence in UVA Health CEO, dean | How debt stacks up at 29 systems | CommonSpirit taps regional CFO | Humana preps for MA 'frustration'

September 06, 2024

• How a big system is tackling unprofessionalism | Steward CEO faces contempt charges | 20 systems' days of cash on hand | 10 hospitals scaling back services

September 05, 2024

• Ohio hospital closes | System downgrades pile up: 18 latest | Steward CEO to skip Senate hearing | City of Hope hires Optum exec | Hospital faces $303M lawsuit over alleged drug tampering

September 04, 2024

• CommonSpirit restructures in Calif. | Dana-Farber CEO to exit | PAs push back on 'scope creep' | More Steward hospitals secure deals | Prime taps 1st president

September 03, 2024

• 31 systems ranked by margins | Spotlight shines on Steward CEO | UnitedHealth's gold-card program: 5 notes | Why systems need 'inboxologists' | 10 best, worst cities to retire

September 01, 2024

• 5 systems back in the black | 21 system, MA breakups | Best hospitals to work for, by state | 8 risky trends for payers | 774 nursing homes closed in 4 years

August 31, 2024

• 2 Mass. hospitals to close | Trump pitches rule for payers | Hospitals face new hacker threat | 7 systems operating at a loss | Residents intensify calls for fair contracts

August 30, 2024

• Healthcare faces 100,000-worker deficit | 10 profitable health systems | UNM replaces CEO | Steward hospital sales firm up | UPMC posts $313M loss

August 29, 2024

• Epic adds 19 systems | HCA to sell Calif. hospital | 10 states facing worst nurse shortages | Intermountain reaches 3.8% margin | What's up with Steward sale delays?

August 28, 2024

• Memorial Hermann opens healthcare high school | Hospital wires $226K to fake vendor | Where Steward's 31 hospitals stand | CDC's outlook for virus season | 33 HCA exec moves

August 27, 2024

• Wegovy will lower care costs: Novo Nordisk | Northwell-Nuvance merger clears hurdle | Providence's $600M turnaround | NY system to cut appt. lengths | Adventist taps president for 2 hospitals

August 26, 2024

• 22 EDs with longest, shortest visit times | UnitedHealth eyes ASC operator: Report | Steward Ohio hospital has potential buyer | Orlando Health CFO exits | J&J cuts upfront 340B discounts

August 25, 2024

• A hospital CEO who started at 23 | Systems brace for the 'silver tsunami' | How an Ind. system found MA success | Hackensack scales cancer screenings | The term MD Anderson's CHRO wants to change

August 25, 2024

• 31 hospital closures, service cuts | A hot spot for hospital M&A | Tenet stock at 20-year high | 25 systems, payers breaking up with Medicare Advantage | 20 new Epic programs

August 24, 2024

• Specialists exit HCA system | How Congress gets health insurance | AMCs scoop up hospitals | Hospitals turn to external CEOs | Trump, Harris on mental health: 5 notes

August 23, 2024

• Systems bet on new behavioral model | Ohio hospitals to lay off 944 in closures | Mayo opens $215M digitized hospital | Emory to add 2 hospitals | 4 systems create new exec roles

August 22, 2024

• 2 Ohio hospitals to close in Sept. | Judy Faulkner's long-term plan | Providence trims Q2 operating loss | Hospitals, physicians split over noncompete strikedown

August 21, 2024

• Top health system employers in each state | 1,100 Providence workers strike | Hospitals + residency programs: 4 notes | Neb. system CEO resigns | The future of AI at Epic

August 20, 2024

• Tenn. hospital misses payroll | Jefferson back in black | AdventHealth to add NC hospital | Landlord 'crippled' hospital sales, Steward says | 6 top Magnet hospitals

August 19, 2024

• Harris + Medicare for All: 5 notes | Ascension hospital to close | UnitedHealth, HCA hospitals face split | CHS finds new buyer for NC hospital | Amazon's pay for 9 HIT jobs

August 18, 2024

• Hospital downgrades pile up: 16 latest | 19 Epic adoptions | Best, worst states for retirement | 48 transformation chiefs to know | 25 fastest-growing healthcare companies

August 17, 2024

• Harris' economic plan: 4 healthcare notes | 3 systems eye Steward hospital takeovers | HCA, Bon Secours turf war heats up | MA woes loom for hospitals | 43 exec moves

August 16, 2024

• Healthcare bankruptcies ease up | MGB hospital president exits | Cleveland Clinic back to profitability | CMS' negotiated drug prices: 12 notes | 96 AMC CEOs to know

August 15, 2024

• Mass. hospital leader resigns | Fla. buyer steps up for Steward hospitals | MetroHealth to wait on CEO search | 67 systems with strong finances | 1 dead in self-inflicted shooting at ProMedica office

August 14, 2024

• The GLP-1 questions facing systems | Judge clears path for Beth Israel closure | 800K NY healthcare staff get bonuses | Mass. hospital reopens | Trump, Harris tread in ACA ambiguity

August 13, 2024

• Hospitals turn layoff pain to gain | Ozempic + cancer: What to know | 1K+ Providence workers to strike | Sutter taps 3 hospital CEOs | Hospital margins' 'new normal'

August 12, 2024

• MetroHealth 'unlawfully terminated' contract, CEO says | 100 great hospitals in America | 3rd Steward hospital faces closure | MUSC to add 332-bed hospital | Payers ranked by Q2 profits

August 11, 2024

• 6 overused healthcare buzzwords | Epic's new feature for hospitals | Cancer screenings shake up MD workloads | UH's spin on virtual nursing | WellSpan spends $3,600 to save $600K

August 11, 2024

• 17 hospital closures | MetroHealth tightens belt amid CEO tumult | 67 healthcare leaders under 40 | 14 big systems grow bigger | Sutter's clinician hiring spree not over

August 10, 2024

• MetroHealth fires CEO | The truth about hospital profitability | Texas hospitals must report undocumented care | 46 exec moves | What's off limits to AI?

August 9, 2024

• Adventist picks Epic | HCA touts jobs after competitor layoffs | Eyes stay on Steward CEO in France | MSK hires Temple exec | Hospitals' cash on hand hits low

August 8, 2024

• Tenet reorganizes | Hospitals make MA missteps, too: Jain | System faces 2nd cyberattack in under a year | NC health plan risks insolvency | 11 CEO moves

August 7, 2024

• Iowa hospital to close | Geisinger exec heads to Banner | Texas Children's to lay off 1,000 | A 'recession-resistant' asset for systems | Novant to buy provider group from insurer

August 6, 2024

• VP pick Tim Walz on healthcare: 8 notes | 25 healthiest communities in America | MetroHealth freezes some hiring | HBCU med schools get $600M gift | Inova plans $2B expansion

August 5, 2024

• 703 hospitals at risk of closure | Tenet to sell 5 hospitals | Steward to lay off 1,200+ | Tenn. medical school opens | A key word vanishes from system names

August 4, 2024

• 28 executive moves | 40 hospitals change hands | 9 notes on length of stay | 10 best, worst states for healthcare | How US News' top hospitals fare with CMS star ratings

August 3, 2024

• 1 hurt in SC hospital shooting | Voters to decide Calif. hospital's fate | CHS nurse retention at decade high | DOJ to reward fraud whistleblowers | 2.9% pay bump adds 'insult to injury': Hospitals

August 2, 2024

• Jefferson, Lehigh merge: 10 notes | CMS issues payment rules: 22 notes | Ascension, Dignity wrap hospital sales | Texas systems risk losing health plans | Northwestern Medicine CEO is hands-on about the 10-year plan

August 1, 2024

• Boom times for HCA | Steward gets OK to close Mass. hospitals | Mark Cuban's warning for self-insured employers | Dignity, Cigna face split | Blood center hit by ransomware attack

July 31, 2024

• All 657 of CMS' 1- and 5-star hospitals | CHS sells Pa. hospitals | Is Amazon headed for healthcare losses? | Mount Sinai revamps MD training | Calif. system CEO to retire

July 30, 2024

• The shortfalls of NP education | Cleveland Clinic taps SiriusXM leader | ChristianaCare sues to block state hospital board | AHA challenges noncompete ban | CrowdStrike outage: What's next for systems

July 29, 2024

• 10 best, worst states for healthcare | Project 2025: 8 healthcare notes | Steward hospitals get $30M lifeline | Colo. med school pioneers new training model | How HCA, Tenet, CHS + UHS fared in Q2

July 28, 2024

• Inside Ascension, Prime's growth plans | Capitalizing on Epic: UH's approach | Execs refocus on the big 'why' | An undervalued hospital dept. | How a newly formed system is integrating clinically

July 28, 2024

• 61 systems with strong finances | CHS divests 28 hospitals in 4 years | 7 updates on GLP-1s | 9 hospitals scaling back care | 15 systems split from Medicare Advantage

July 27, 2024

• 2 Steward hospitals to close | Envision exits Calif. | MetroHealth names acting CEO | Systems snap up hospitals in neighboring states | Northwell delves into filmmaking

July 26, 2024

• Senate subpoenas Steward CEO | CommonSpirit buys Ariz. hospital, EDs | Tenet portfolio politically agnostic: CEO | Mount Sinai advances hospital closure plan | Former Memorial Hermann CEO dies

July 25, 2024

• Ascension to sell 9 hospitals to Prime | Optum closing clinics, cutting 500+ jobs | CHS eyes sales amid $13M Q2 net loss | Intermountain digital chief to depart | 42 healthcare leaders under 40

July 24, 2024

• HCA 'built to be bigger' | Okla. hospital to close | Healthcare's 38-day lag | Feds probe Texas Children's | 10 Optum exec exits

July 23, 2024

• After delay, US News lists top med schools | Mayo, Epic partner on AI for nurses | Pay growth at HCA, CHS, Tenet, UHS | Mount Sinai execs threatened over hospital closure | 15 systems dropping MA plans

July 22, 2024

• Global IT outage 'worse than a cyberattack': 10 updates | Kamala Harris' healthcare record: 6 notes | HCA hospital walks back service cuts | The dangers of 'botsh-t' in healthcare | 3 Steward hospitals get no bids

July 21, 2024

• 35 executive changes | Are systems overdoing SDOH? | 15 health systems get credit downgrades | UnitedHealth 'over-optimistic' in Change bounceback | 10 top hospitals for cancer care

July 20, 2024

• Global IT outage disrupts Epic | More layoffs at Optum | A timeline for the General Catalyst, Summa deal | Prisma to buy Tenn. hospital | 'Best' weight loss drug remains elusive

July 19, 2024

• Time to get off his yacht': Senators aim to summon Steward CEO | Nurses slam Prime | UCSF clears $1.5B hospital plan | 10 best, worst states for women's health | Medicaid use up, Elevance warns

July 18, 2024

• Nurse self-scheduling's comeback | Mark Cuban's 25 biggest drug price cuts | Meet Providence's next CEO | NM hospital faces AG probe | Top hospital employers, per Gen Z

July 17, 2024

• Health systems bullish on outpatient JVs | Steward paid CEO $3.8M before bankruptcy | UnitedHealth Q2 profit falls 23% | 25 top hospitals for AI readiness | JD Vance's healthcare record: 6 notes

July 16, 2024

• US News: 20 best hospitals + No. 1 by state | 11 arrested at UnitedHealth protest | IU Health plans $421M hospital | Atlantic Health's new joint venture | Grady eyes ChatGPT for payer appeals

July 15, 2024

• Steward auction delayed again | 'Faux-zempic' on the rise | Mount Sinai expands int'l reach | Ex-hospital CFO charged in $15M fraud case | Ballad's safety culture rebound

July 14, 2024

• The million-dollar question facing CFOs | Mount Sinai's vision: AI in every IT system | High schoolers flock to UH | A twist on root cause analysis | How IU Health is restructuring physician contracts

July 14, 2024

• 94 top EDs, per nurses | 10 Epic go-lives | 41 hospital layoffs | 32 exec moves | Physician pay in 9 specialties

July 13, 2024

• UChicago Med creates Epic app | Aetna cited in 1st No Surprises audit | CEO, CFO tenures at 10 large systems | CMS pilots primary care model | Prior auth may become AI 'arms race'

July 12, 2024

• Steward faces federal probe | 15 systems opting for Epic | Chicago system names CEO | MA the lynchpin in hospital-payer disputes | Hackensack's quick post-Chevron move

July 11, 2024

• Sanford, Marshfield eye merger | Payers back 'old-fashioned' weight loss method | Joint Commission's new safety, wellness resource | CMS floats 2 payment rules | Tenet's 10 C-level openings

July 10, 2024

• Insurers net $50B from 'questionable' MA coding | Geisinger plans $880M expansion | Wash. hospital CEO resigns | Humana exec heads to Advocate | UPMC under scrutiny for jet use

July 09, 2024

• C-suite role sees pay bump | Mount Sinai exec joins RWJBarnabas | 'Cancerphobia' on the rise | RI nurses can work before NCLEX | 24 C-level openings at CHS

July 08, 2024

• Emory hospital to close | $1B gift makes Johns Hopkins med school free | An unlikely revenue source for Prime | 12 C-level openings at HCA | Epic's global dominance

July 07, 2024

• 27 called-off deals | 16 profitable systems | 27 executive moves | Worst cities for insurer competition | Median hospital margins hit 5% | 15 insurers trimming jobs

July 06, 2024

• HCA chases more hospital deals | Chevron ruling may ding reimbursements | A billionaire CEO's healthcare gifting spree | Novant revamps leadership | HHS reaffirms EMTALA stance

July 03, 2024

• Biden to Ozempic maker: 'Stop ripping off' Americans | Hackensack sues HHS after Chevron ruling | Cedars-Sinai taps CEO | Trinity, UnitedHealth split in 6 states | The payer eyeing Walmart's clinics

July 02, 2024

• HCA to buy Catholic system | What is 'quality'? | CEO, CFO sentenced in $1B fraud case | Former Envision exec helms Humana | Kan., Ky. systems add hospitals

July 01, 2024

• Hospitals' summer of advocacy | NJ, Ky. systems combine in 2 deals | Mass General Brigham fires 2 after breach | Geisinger starts $900M expansion | COVID visits tick up: 4 notes

June 30, 2024

• A hospital M&A boom: 16 deals to watch | 33 executive moves | States hit hardest by hospital closures | 11 GLP-1 updates

June 29, 2024

• What Chevron ruling means for healthcare | Optum scraps Steward deal | Another system cuts IT jobs | Presidential debate: 4 healthcare takeaways | Epic vs. Oracle in 2024

June 28, 2024

• 71 hospitals scale Mark Cuban firm for generics | Feds charge 193 in big healthcare bust | Amazon reprices virtual care | 19 hospitals band together to avoid M&A, closure | 10 winning states for patient experience

June 27, 2024

• Hackers target hospital payments | Baptist opens 1st hospital in 33 years | Ga. hospital CEO resigns after 4 mos. | NY system drops MA plan | 4-day nurse manager workweeks gain steam

June 26, 2024

• Ascension extends selling spree | NY system lays off managers | Most socially responsible hospital in each state | Tensions rise in Calif. over anesthesia roles | RWJBarnabas taps 3 execs

June 25, 2024

• 20 most socially responsible hospitals | CommonSpirit exec heads to Novant | First generic GLP-1 launches | A 'legitimate and pervasive' issue for CFOs | Ohio nurses to lawmakers: Bodily fluids are a weapon

June 24, 2024

• HHS adds penalties for info blocking | Summer COVID wave emerges | 7 Epic updates | Supreme Court to take up gender-affirming care | The link between hospital prices, unemployment

June 23, 2024

• Sutter beats $519M billing suit | 36 hospital layoffs | Surgical tech pay by state, adjusted by cost of living | 31 exec moves | 15 hospital deals

June 22, 2024

• Risant to acquire Cone Health | NM hospital temporarily closes | Has telehealth fulfilled its promise? | Hospitals must kick FFS 'addiction' | The drawbacks of concierge medicine

June 21, 2024

• 48 financially strong systems | Prospect to sell 2 hospitals | Best Buy partners with Calif. system | Change issues data breach notices | Inside a Gen Z CEO's first 2 years

June 20, 2024

• Steward auction delayed | UH to lay off execs | CRNA pay by state, adjusted by cost of living | Former Grady hospital CEO dies | Michael Dowling: 'Appeal to the heart' to curb gun violence

June 19, 2024

• Novant-CHS deal cracks under FTC pressure | Ill. hospital for sale | 40 most common passwords | Ind. hospitals form statewide talent pool | Pa. system CEO to retire

June 18, 2024

• The 'messy state' of GLP-1s | CMS to end Change hack funding | 3K Providence nurses strike | Calif. system plans $580M behavioral campus | Hackensack, Aetna face split

June 17, 2024

• Hospitals' return-to-paper playbook | Michael Dowling: An overlooked healthcare crisis | NP pay by state, adjusted by cost of living | Prospect accused of mismanaging safety nets | Emory earmarks $100M for staff raises

June 16, 2024

• CEO steps down to resume patient care | 'Unsexy' tactics Mercy's CFO swears by | What's center stage for Cleveland Clinic's CIO | NYC public hospitals' $41M behavioral plan | Is networking making a comeback?

June 16, 2024

• 160 hospital CEOs to know | PA pay by state, adjusted by cost of living | 14 system credit rating upgrades | 33 executive moves | Supply costs at 20 health systems

June 15, 2024

• Nurses voice more AI concerns | Calif. system accused of underpaying on-call staff | Ascension restores EHR systemwide | Physicians unionize in 2 states | Pa. system sees 'resurgence of optimism'

June 14, 2024

• RN pay by state, adjusted by cost of living | NYU Langone CEO to retire | IU Health to end noncompetes for PCPs | Calif. system has 10 days to pay unpaid bills | A hospital that was too small for Epic

June 13, 2024

• Major insurer drops GLP-1 coverage | Employee's 'honest mistake' behind Ascension cyberattack | System CEO confronts pay criticism | Union owes Calif. hospital $6M over strike | OHSU to cut 142 contracts in initial round of layoffs

June 12, 2024

• Healthcare bill targets 'corporate greed' | An IT recession? | Johns Hopkins pilots 'neighborhood nurses' | Steward's $225M safety net | Mount Sinai taps CFO

June 11, 2024

• FTC to appellate court: Block Novant-CHS deal | Trinity taps market CEO | OHSU to lay off 500+ | Epic's next move in AI | The fall of inpatient bariatric surgeries

June 10, 2024

• Calif. floats tighter healthcare PE rules | OSF HealthCare president dies | 3K+ Providence nurses to strike | 160 CFOs to know | Nurse sabbaticals pay off for Ohio system

June 9, 2024

• 40% of hospitals losing money: Expenses by state | 42 executive moves | 47 layoffs at payers, hospitals | 133 CIOs to know | For-profit M&A ramps up

June 8, 2024

• A CEO who still joins nurses on night shifts | CommonSpirit taps president for 9 hospitals | Joint Commission loosens texting rules | Intermountain to open $680M hospital | How much staffing flexibility is too much?

June 7, 2024

• Health system CEOs head to White House | Vanderbilt hires Hopkins exec | Yale faces $435M lawsuit over alleged M&A stall | Rare cancer cases rise post-pandemic | UHS to sell Texas hospital

June 6, 2024

• FTC can't block CHS-Novant deal: Judge | Ascension sets EHR comeback date | 8 CEO moves | Sutter's antitrust win overturned | Tighten cybersecurity rules, Wyden urges HHS

June 5, 2024

• Top 25 healthcare cos. on Fortune 500 | Allegheny exec heads to RWJBarnabas | Steward hospital sale dates finalized | CommonSpirit's new joint venture | Ascension restores some EHRs

June 4, 2024

• 37 financially strong systems | Ala. hospital CEO resigns | Weight loss drug coverage gets more complex | UnitedHealth divestiture stalls | Lifespan taps president for 2 hospitals

June 3, 2024

• Calif. delays healthcare pay law | UPMC adds hospitals | Fla. hospital tightens charity care | Hospitals' RN worries subside | Cigna lays off workers

June 2, 2024

• Why HCA gives clinicians iPhones | Payer-provider talks 'coming to a head' | Inside Hackensack's behavioral health work | A CEO's decision to ditch 'both/and' thinking | How systems rein in portal messages

June 2, 2024

• 23 hospital service cuts, closures | Frank advice on 7 CEO issues | 26 exec moves | 7 weight loss drug updates | Lowest-ranked health plans

June 1, 2024

• UH nurses face pay cut | Legacy, OHSU to form 12-hospital system | The mystery behind Ozempic's production | Dollar General scraps care pilot | FDA sued over hospital lab rule

May 31, 2024

• The humble, tenfold force of Jim Skogsbergh | Northwell emulates Marvel | Mayo's talking points leaked | Healthiest states for seniors | Judy Faulkner thwarts interoperability, Oracle exec says

May 30, 2024

• UConn Health rehires payer exec as CEO | UCLA nurses weigh quitting over scheduling change | Mass. system to exit bankruptcy | Allina names CFO | Ascension sees first EHR comeback post-cyberattack

May 29, 2024

• Henry Ford, Google partner | CommonSpirit wary about Calif. Medicaid | 12 systems opting for Epic | Payer CEOs embrace MA cuts | Ex-Erlanger execs allege kickbacks

May 28, 2024

• Novo Nordisk defends Ozempic price | 2 dead in murder-suicide at Va. hospital | NY hospital up for auction again | Pa. system ends some transplants | How 3 largest nonprofit systems' finances stack up

May 26, 2024

• 32 hospital layoffs | New findings tie Ozempic to lower health risks | 27 executive moves | 10 notes on ransomware | 10 highest-paid healthcare CEOs

May 25, 2024

• The question of 'unbossed' healthcare | Trinity 'taking a stand' against UnitedHealthcare | CommonSpirit taps president for 20 hospitals | Kaiser physicians vote to unionize | 15K+ open jobs at 22 top hospitals, systems

May 24, 2024

• 40 specialties ranked by pay | Intermountain operating income up 29% | Dr. Marc Boom on CEO burnout | 7 payer-provider M&A deals | Emory pivots from 'piecemeal' workforce fixes

May 23, 2024

• Walmart cuts healthcare jobs | Fla. system CFO resigns after CEO hire | UPMC posts $103M Q1 operating loss | Another state confronts prior auth | US News adds MA data to hospital rankings

May 22, 2024

• 15 top systems: Fortune | Tufts to lay off leaders | 10 highest-paid healthcare CEOs | CommonSpirit taps president for 5 hospitals | Ascension posts $1.3B turnaround

May 21, 2024

• HCA to automate notes at 184 EDs | ACA gains favor | Penn Med names CFO | Oracle's market share dips | 3 Prime hospitals to become nonprofit | An emerging fungal threat

May 20, 2024

• HHS puts $50M to hospitals' ransomware fight | Optum lays off more staff | 10 Qs facing Medicare Advantage | Amazon hiring for 8 health tech jobs | 80 great healthcare leaders

May 19, 2024

• How a $2.6B system picked its name | A strong CEO-CFO duo | 'Enormous change' afoot for Ochsner's IT team | Northwestern's 16-week pathway to CNA roles | What healthcare learned from Change hack

May 19, 2024

• 42 systems by net income | Providence back in the black | 17 candid notes on healthcare | Epic captures more market share | 25 executive moves

May 18, 2024

• Why Ascension's hack response shines | Ohio hospital temporarily closes | Cleveland Clinic taps CIO | Pa. hospital pauses more transplants | Neb. system drops MA

May 17, 2024

• GLP-1s poised to bankrupt Medicare, Sanders warns | CommonSpirit sees -3.9% margin | Fla. system CEO to exit | Nurses want AI paused | 15 hospitals scaling back services

May 16, 2024

• Providence CEO to retire | Kaiser punts $500M building plan | Ascension enlists more pros for IT recovery | Calif. system struggles to sell hospitals | CommonSpirit takes 'firm stance' with payers

May 15, 2024

• Texas hospital to close | HCA exec heads to Trinity | Ascension sued over ransomware attack | The dollar cost of capacity woes | 17 quick notes on healthcare

May 14, 2024

• AdventHealth wins HCA turf war | Where Optum won't enforce noncompetes | Site-neutral payment policies: 20 notes | CMS extends Medicaid waivers | 10 best cities to start a career

May 13, 2024

• Ascension confirms ransomware hit | GLP-1s: 8 notes for hospitals | Calif. to redirect $7B+ in healthcare funds | NY hospital halts open-heart surgeries | Kaiser posts $935M Q1 gain

May 12, 2024

• 30 financially strong systems | 10 states with most PE hospitals | UnitedHealth floats 100 clinic sales to close deal | Gen Z's debt problem | 22 executive moves

May 11, 2024

• Ariz. probes Steward bankruptcy | Ascension hit by ransomware: Report | Hospitals to get cybersecurity rules | DOJ zooms in on healthcare monopolies | Best Buy's new system partner

May 10, 2024

• Ascension says no timeline for IT recovery | 'Ongoing cartel': CHS sues MultiPlan | Steward workers see pay delay | Ohio system names CEO | Hospitals confront surgical tech shortage

May 9, 2024

• Ascension reports cyberattack | Would leaders choose Steward for care? | Highmark lays off workers | RN pay for 16 specialties | 10 CEO moves

May 8, 2024

• Steward to sell all 31 hospitals | Optum's bank: 10 things to know | Kaiser cuts more IT, admin jobs | Systems phase out common anesthesia | Cleveland Clinic taps 3 leaders

May 7, 2024

• 10 best states for healthcare | The 'dawn of a new era' for Tenet | MA extras on the chopping block | 30 financially strong systems | Mass General offers emergency care at home

May 6, 2024

• Steward files for bankruptcy | Have EHRs been good for healthcare? | NYU Langone to add 306-bed hospital | Ala. plans healthcare high school | 15 hospital projects costing $500M+

May 5, 2024

• Why Ascension partners with Oracle | CHS' debt driving M&A | Hospitals tight-lipped after cyberattacks | UPMC takes up farming | What's 'in vogue' for chief pharmacy officers

May 5, 2024

• Calif. hospital dismisses CEO | 45 hospital closures, job cuts + downgrades | How HCA, Tenet, CHS + UHS fared in Q1 | Cigna posts $277M Q1 loss: How payers stack up | AHA praises Change hack scrutiny

May 4, 2024

• Epic cost factors into UH's operating loss | CommonSpirit taps president for 8 hospitals | Star ratings of straight-'A' + 'F' hospitals | Yale New Haven eyes exit in Prospect deal | Mass. enacts emergency plans for Steward hospitals

May 3, 2024

• State groups exit MGMA | Nurse pleads guilty to killing patients | Ozempic interest by state | Noncompete ban could push up hospital wages | CommonSpirit, Anthem BCBS split in Colo.

May 2, 2024

• Crisis of your creating': UnitedHealth CEO rebuked by lawmakers | Hospitals get COVID reporting relief | Why Epic shortened its noncompete list | Hospital execs react to failure of Walmart Health | Tenet sheds hospitals, adds ASCs

May 1, 2024

• 25 hospitals ace, flunk patient safety: Leapfrog | Tornado closes Okla. hospital | Walmart ends clinic run | Kaiser names 2 execs | 10 best, worst states for nurses

April 30, 2024

• FDA to regulate hospital lab tests | Ascension taps CFO | 11 latest hospital closures | Another hospital pauses liver transplants | Tower makes 4 exec changes

April 29, 2024

• La. hospital closes | CEO, CFO to exit Mo. hospital | UCSF starts $4.3B expansion | 7 things to know about UnitedHealth's CEO | 4 Ozempic updates

April 28, 2024

• Big health system, payer CEO salaries ranked | How debt stacks up at 43 health systems | FTC adjusts healthcare breach reporting | 34 executive moves | Amazon pay for 10 health tech jobs

April 27, 2024

• Can Oracle surpass Epic? | US raises salaried OT ceiling: What to know | 6 exec exits at Optum | Rush, MD Anderson partner | HCA posts $1.8B Q1 gain

April 26, 2024

• Optum closes telehealth arm | 1st state decriminalizes medical errors | Kaiser alerts 13M patients of data breach | AdventHealth names 3 execs | Do nonprofit hospitals sidestep FTC's noncompete ban?

April 25, 2024

• UPMC lays off nearly 1,000 | What are nurses' exact AI grievances? | Ozempic, Wegovy get price probe | 7 top-paid insurer CEOs | Adventist reorgs after Tenet buy

April 24, 2024

• Hospitals slam noncompete ban | Fla. system lays off hospital CEO | Intermountain to exit Kan. | UnitedHealth pays hackers | Joint Commission's new accreditation

April 23, 2024

• Kaiser nurses protest AI | Texas hospital struggles to make payroll | HCA exec joins Ascension | Cardinal, OptumRx break up | Adventist CEO to depart

April 22, 2024

• Optum enacts layoffs | Ex-CEO sues Calif. hospital | Fla. permits C-sections outside of hospitals | Banner's new C-suite role | CEO to exit Atrium hospital

April 21, 2024

• Healthcare's 'mind-numbing burden' | Why HCA nurses work from home | Scripps CEO calls for candid review of cybersecurity | Hackensack gets serious on sustainability | Inside Providence's equity work

April 21, 2024

• Scrutiny heats up on cross-market M&A, growth | 55 executive moves, layoffs | HCA, Tenet, CHS and UHS: 50 things to know | EHR costs across 8 systems | 15 largest pharmacies

April 20, 2024

• Novant, CHS fire back at FTC | Vanderbilt exec joins Tufts | Calif. hospital to lose Medicare contract | 10 hospitals opting for Epic | Pricing woes not unique to healthcare

April 19, 2024

• Insurer unveils $4B primary care arm | CHS to sell Tenn. hospital | UC Davis CFO heads to Hopkins | CVS, Walgreens pharmacists push back | AHA objects to cybersecurity fines

April 18, 2024

• UnitedHealth owning Change helps US, says CEO | Legacy CEO to retire amid M&A | 4-year-old hospital up for auction | PE healthcare bankruptcies: 8 things to know | Mass General to add 94 beds

April 17, 2024

• Exec pay at HCA, CHS, Tenet, UHS | Lawmakers blast UnitedHealth | 100 top hospitals: Fortune | Healthcare's imposter problem | How nursing school enrollment is faring

April 16, 2024

• Hackers leak Change data | Mayo reboots financial planning | A 4-letter red flag | Kan. system taps CEO | MUSC plans $705M in hospital projects

April 15, 2024

• Health systems face more than 1 math problem | CommonSpirit takes over 5 Steward hospitals | Epic cracks down on startup | Tenet's top-earning execs | Mass General CQO heads to Joint Commission

April 14, 2024

• 100 AMCs' top 10 priorities | 23 systems with strong finances | The $56,300 hit of RN turnover | 22 executive moves | 5 behavioral site closures

April 13, 2024

• Feds probe Sentara | SSM exec heads to Dignity | Judy Faulkner's financial philosophy | Memorial Hermann pauses transplants over altered records | HCA's CEO-to-worker pay ratio

April 12, 2024

• 29 specialties ranked by pay | Hospitals unimpressed with CMS payment pitch: 8 notes | Ill. hospital reopens | M&A hits a high | Cleveland Clinic names improvement chief | NY system president to exit

April 11, 2024

• US News delays med school rankings | Why 7,887 nurses left the field | Prime buys 5 hospitals | States at highest private equity risk | Ballad CFO to retire

April 10, 2024

• Banner CEO to retire | 2nd ransomware group targets Change | UHS' 5 top-earning execs | Labor costs at 30 health systems | Epic, Press Ganey automate quality reporting

April 9, 2024

• 150 top places to work in healthcare | 42 systems ranked by margins | Healthcare's indispensability myth | Nurse anesthetist pay by state | The CEO done playing nice with Medicare Advantage

April 8, 2024

• Hospitals' MA problem hits inflection point | PA pay by state | Ark. hospital CEO out after no-confidence vote | 47 systems ranked by revenue | The dollar cost of nurse turnover

April 7, 2024

• 1 system, 30 years sans travel nurses | A popular healthcare myth debunked | When to lead firmly in the 'soft' CEO era | Penn Med's IT road map | CFOs become strategists

April 7, 2024

• Nurse violence hits a high | Mark Cuban's 25 steepest drug price cuts | 52 hospital exec moves, service cuts | The new MA rule: 11 takeaways | Edge softens for healthcare disruptors

April 6, 2024

• Neb. hospitals abruptly close | Calif. system adds security at CEO's home | Mercy plans $650M hospital | 1st state adopts 'physician associate' | Beth Israel closure hits snag

April 5, 2024

• Mark Cuban, CVS exec joust | Wis. system lays off workers | UnitedHealth shifts execs | 8 best healthcare employers: Fortune | U of Utah Health CEO to step down

April 4, 2024

• RN pay in 50 states | Who is buying big systems' hospitals? | Epic model draws scrutiny | Steward CEO skips hearing | Medicare Advantage getting tougher, CFOs say

April 3, 2024

• Risant buys Geisinger | Hospitals brace for solar eclipse | 35 healthcare billionaires | Senate probes PE's role in ED staffing | 3.7K Calif. nurses strike

April 2, 2024

• NY hospital up for auction | CMS finalizes Medicare Advantage rates | 2 days, 4 exec exits | How long Epic installs take | Nursing workforce in 21 numbers

April 1, 2024

• CHS' top-earning execs | Ala. hospital to end inpatient care | 10 healthiest, unhealthiest cities | Hospitals spend big on weapons detection | What 7 systems pay for EHRs

March 31, 2024

• The enigma of Steward's CEO | 20 systems with strong finances | UCLA buys HCA hospital | Optum group sees physician exodus | CEO abruptly exits Va. system

March 30, 2024

• Tenet sells 2 more hospitals | 2 top execs exit Tufts | Trump: 'I'm not running to terminate the ACA' | Cleveland Clinic taps president | Intermountain physician group closes

March 29, 2024

• The $5 Ozempic debate | Hospital exec to serve 2 systems at once | Former Mount Sinai exec joins RWJBarnabas | Fallen bridge may hinder healthcare supply chain | Walgreens takes $5.8B hit on VillageMD

March 28, 2024

• Tenet sells 4 hospitals | Optum to buy Steward physicians | Michael Dowling: 9 healthcare nuances defy easy criticism | Feds offer $10M for intel on gang linked to Change hack | 8 CEO moves | 10 trustworthy systems: Newsweek

March 27, 2024

• Ascension to sell 3 hospitals | Beth Israel accused of defying cease and desist | 25 hospitals with imbalanced charity care, tax breaks | Biden leans into the ACA | 21 most innovative systems

March 26, 2024

• 20 hospitals where charity care exceeds tax breaks | Ascension to outsource Ill. hospitalists | A big year for CEO pay | 3.7K Calif. nurses to strike | 16 states still catching up to pre-pandemic worker counts

March 25, 2024

• Fla. ERs see new rules | The healthcare CEO nixing bosses | $1.2 trillion spending bill light on healthcare | 7 latest hospital closures | Amazon's pay for 11 health tech jobs

March 24, 2024

• Mount Sinai embraces 4-day workweeks | Quiet quitting's toll on leaders | Mass General Brigham 'all in' on home care | Do's + dont's of an abrupt exec exit | Why Henry Ford's CEO takes notes from public utilities

March 24, 2024

• HCA's 5 top earners | 25 systems with most PAs | 45% of systems mull MA breakups | 15 top systems to work for, per USA Today | Overdose deaths reach new record

March 23, 2024

• 2 Wis. hospitals close | Change to start processing claims | HCA taps president for 8 hospitals | A leading money loser for hospitals | What's new with Epic EHR installs?

March 22, 2024

• Last-ditch email to UnitedHealth's CEO saves clinic | 36 hospital closures | Intermountain sees 0.9% margin | 20 hospitals cut jobs | NY system names CEO

March 21, 2024

• More health rankings, less order | 25 systems by NPs | AdventHealth, Providence add chiefs | What's behind hasty CEO exits? | New drug priced at $4.25M | CMS adds ACO model: 5 notes

March 20, 2024

• The 'medical professionalism' conundrum | BJC, SSM form joint venture | Inside Mayo's $5B 'digitized' hospital | 18 exec retirements | CEOs' outlook getting rosier

March 19, 2024

• Mayo sells stake in 1st overseas hospital | HCA's $635M year of acquisitions | The healthcare 'frenemy' | 11 hospitals scaling back care | New weight loss drugs on the horizon

March 18, 2024

• 15 best, worst states for physicians | GOP splits from Trump on ACA antagonism | UnitedHealth launches claims solution | 5 hospitals seeking CEOs | What hackers charge for med records

March 17, 2024

• Hospital CEO blames layoffs on insurers | 68 best health systems for beginners | 20 hospitals with most NIH funding | 43 executive moves | UnitedHealth, Mount Sinai fight ensnarls Amazon's One Medical patients

March 16, 2024

• 15 financially strong systems | UT Health San Antonio president dies | Change cyberattack: A timeline | Ballad to raise nurse pay | Why CHS partnered with Mark Cuban

March 15, 2024

• Did nurses quit as planned? | 2 dead in apparent murder-suicide at Fla. hospital | Healthcare sans snobbery | Will Steward's CEO show for lawmakers? | How Gen Z bosses lead

March 14, 2024

• HHS opens UnitedHealth investigation | 5 big-ticket hospital projects | Presbyterian CEO to retire | Cedars-Sinai opens 3rd global hub | 5 hospital closures | Male nurses outearning female peers

March 13, 2024

• 7 underrated healthcare jobs | Ex-Centura CEO to helm Baystate | Optum eyes clinic deal amid outage | 9 Ozempic updates | Healthgrades: 79 top hospitals for patients

March 12, 2024

• Biden's $7.3 trillion budget: 16 healthcare notes | CEO exits newly merged system | Erlanger restructures execs | Employee with guns arrested at Fla. hospital | 5 systems moving to Epic

March 11, 2024

• HHS urges 'stopgap' payments to hospitals | Steward looks to exit Mass. | Mark Cuban's $141K oversight | ED visit times by type, volume | 10 most, least overweight cities

March 10, 2024

• The 'right time' to retire | Trinity CEO's top financial focus | How One Medical changed hospitals | Nebraska Med cuts nurse turnover 47% | Why this CEO fought for a glass building

March 10, 2024

• 34 systems ranked by margins | Hospital jobs due for most retirements | 35 exec moves | How the Change outage hit payers | 12 EDs with shortest visit times | A discreet leadership role gets tougher

March 9, 2024

• Tenn. hospital to close | Walmart Health taps physician exec | Change's timeline to restore systems: 6 notes | How Ascension, CommonSpirit + Trinity stack up | ANA to revamp Magnet criteria

March 8, 2024

• Mark Cuban nets 1st hospital partner | Providence to restructure | 'Waste of time': Northwell exec on purple ad lawsuit | Steward cuts staff | Payer v. health system profits | 1 dead after patient attack in Miss. hospital

March 7, 2024

• CommonSpirit expects $1B cash inflow | Providence back from Change outage; lawsuits begin to pile | Diversity chief exits Johns Hopkins Medicine | Salesforce CEO gifts $150M to hospitals | 4 hospitals with uncertain futures

March 6, 2024

• HHS intervenes in Change hack | Feds intensify probe on care costs, PE deals | 5 hospital closures | Pa. hospital CEO steps down | Mark Cuban delves into drug manufacturing

March 5, 2024

• What Change hack is costing systems | Geisinger taps CEO | Steward's financial troubles touch Florida | 15 C-level openings at HCA | Physicians grow louder on noncompetes

March 4, 2024

• Healthcare faces 'elevated' risks: Feds | 15 systems among 'world's most ethical' | Hospitals scrutinize Change's funding program | CMS floats Medicare physician pay bump | 7 healthcare trends to watch

March 3, 2024

• Hospital staff face hostility every 40 hours | UnitedHealth Group: 50 things to know | 8 Ozempic updates | 19 systems partnered with Amazon's One Medical | Hospital expenses per inpatient day in 50 states

March 2, 2024

• Change offers funding aid after cyberattack | Nurses oppose Tenet takeover via billboards | Steward exec heads to Hackensack | RWJBarnabas to anchor $450M innovation 'city' | CDC drops 5-day isolation guideline

March 1, 2024

• When ransomware hits, who to call? | Tenet hot on hospital selling | Surgeon arrested amid claims of threats to OR staff | 12 systems with strong finances | 27 CEO exits | Henry Ford clears $3B expansion

February 29, 2024

• Ransomware ringleader ordered hits on hospitals: Feds | 43 US hospitals among world's best | Mayo posts $1B gain | CHS boosts exec pay | Northwell, Nuvance to merge | Penn Med earmarks $28M for weapon detectors

February 28, 2024

• UnitedHeath faces antitrust probe | 56 most influential healthcare CEOs | Why UHS stuck with Oracle | ChristianaCare to add 3 hospitals | Is healthcare overlooking nurse leaders?

February 27, 2024

• 46 healthcare jobs, ranked | CommonSpirit exec exits | Ransomware gang behind Change attack: Report | Hospitals' overlooked performance metric | HHS puts $37M toward behavioral health

February 26, 2024

• Change outage persists: Notes for Monday | $1B gift makes NY med school free | What Ozempic, AI + layoffs have in common | Providence probes cancer misdiagnoses | 25 called-off hospital deals

February 25, 2024

• New CEOs play tough hands | The IT outsourcing hold outs | CommonSpirit CFO strategy pays dividends | Healthcare's most overlooked topics | 9 lessons from a 50-year nurse leader

February 25, 2024

• Walmart prefers these hospitals for workers | Systems disconnect from Change | 22 payers, providers cutting jobs | 27 executive moves | 134,000 cancer cases missed in 2020: Study | 50 key points on Medicare Advantage

February 24, 2024

• Steward's turnaround plan | Feds probe CHS | 1 injured in Fla. hospital shooting | Ascension goes on selling spree | FBI flagged Chinese malware before Change attack

February 23, 2024

• Nation-state' suspected in Change outage: 7 updates | Walgreens' VillageMD to exit Fla. | CMS wants staff back in office | 8 hospital service cuts | 1 dead in Texas hospital altercation

February 22, 2024

• CHS eyes $1B in sales | Hospital CEO's death post-surgery prompts lawsuit | CMS finalizes safety-net payment cuts | UPMC's global trailblazer to exit | 10 drugs now in shortage

February 21, 2024

• Tide turns on healthcare megadeals | Police probe Wis. hospital shooting | Yale New Haven taps president | Ascension sells NY system | Md. hospital CEO put on leave | Healthcare's top billionaires

February 20, 2024

• Steward's financial issues spill to Utah | 10 hospitals with longest ED visit times | Ascension posts $708M quarterly turnaround | 22 CEO exits | Americans overdo 'alone time'

February 19, 2024

• Healthcare's Oppenheimer moment | Former Hackensack co-CEO dies | NY cites 15 hospitals over clinical staffing | Kaiser plans $1.48B hospital | 9 states with most for-profit hospitals

February 18, 2024

• 418 hospitals risk closure | Mass General Brigham sees $32M loss | 20 largest for-profit hospitals | Healthcare workforce – problem or not? | Mercy restructures jobs

February 17, 2024

• HCA Mission CMO resigns | Systems ditch health plans | Calif. hospital to lay off more nurses | Amazon's pay for 20 healthcare jobs | Introvert CEOs' time to shine | 100 top critical access hospitals, by state

February 16, 2024

• Healthcare's procrastination problem | CEO resigns after failed inspections | Mercy to buy Ascension hospital | Md. drops Optum | CommonSpirit posts $356M Q4 gain | New cancer cases: States ranked by projections

February 15, 2024

• Payer M&A derails | Mark Cuban opens shop for hospitals | 1 dead, 5 hurt after car hits Texas ER | Northwell high school to open in '25 | Mass General physicians return to Steward hospitals

February 14, 2024

• 55 best hospitals to work for, per Forbes | HCA realigns chief officers | Pa. physician gets prison time for patient death | 2-midnight rule: Hospitals, payers weigh in | NewYork-Presbyterian plans new cancer hub

February 13, 2024

• Younger cancer patients drive care changes | Judge pauses NYC hospital closure | 12 hospitals cutting jobs | Fla. payer faces $195M judgment | Execs use many words to avoid 'layoffs'

February 12, 2024

• CEO's yachts sail into Steward criticism | Sutter worker stabbed, man charged | Execs resign from PeaceHealth, Riley Children's | HCA Mission moves to right itself with CMS | Intermountain opens children's hospital

February 11, 2024

• Why abandoned spaces work for healthcare | 'We matter,' new system declares | The CMS citation on the rise | Dallas systems plug $5B into pediatric care | 4 tips to retain new RNs

February 11, 2024

• Advocate Aurora accused of anticompetition, 'eye-watering prices' | 37 exec moves | AdventHealth wraps $660M Epic rollout | Mo. hospital ousts another CEO | Super Bowl caps big run for Chiefs, Swifties + a health system

February 10, 2024

• Tenet's bet on nursing to cut costs | Why SSM, Optum split | U of Minn. to buy 17K-bed campus from Fairview | Kaiser posts $4.1B net income | How long can hospitals survive a tech blackout?

February 9, 2024

• Health systems shouldn't be insurers: Penn CEO | Tenet credits $1.3B profit to operational discipline | Amazon to cut One Medical overhead | Ascension nurses on 3rd strike in 6 mos. | Intermountain, Walgreens, UnitedHealth make leadership changes

February 8, 2024

• NYC hospital closure is a real estate ploy, lawsuit claims | Calif. hospital cuts care, staff | 6 big payers ranked by profit | HCA co-founder hits net worth high | 7 CEO moves | 30 hospitals ranked by PX

February 7, 2024

• Amazon cuts healthcare jobs | UCSF to buy 2 Dignity hospitals | Top-paying cities for RNs | Why a system couldn't 'rule out Epic' | Inside Fla.'s health insurance crisis

February 6, 2024

• Capacity worsens in healthcare's darling state | 25 big systems, by EHR vendor | University Hospitals taps CFO | Crozer sues over withdrawn residency accreditation | Cano files for bankruptcy

February 5, 2024

• Healthcare job growth at 32-yr. high | Rush lays off leaders | Northwell never bought into 'Great Resignation' | 10 systems with strong finances | HCA taps CIO | Dignity, BCBS Ariz. split

February 4, 2024

• Optum didn't build hospitals – it hired their staff | 10 systems with strong finances | ED visit times, by state | Cybergang demands $900K in 48 hours from safety-net | 60 operational chiefs at AMCs to know

February 3, 2024

• Steward secures funding for Mass. hospitals | Yale-New Haven exec joins Lifespan | 1 injured in Mo. hospital shooting | Providence to repay, cancel $158M in medical debt | Hospitals tackle stigma on med-surg nursing

February 2, 2024

• The hospital led by a Gen Z CEO | HCA buys bankrupt hospital | Tenet to sell 4 hospitals | Optum to hire 2,000 Allina workers | 11 CEO moves | Northwell wraps $560M pavilion

February 1, 2024

• The No. 1 problem keeping hospital CEOs up at night | Former Trump official to lead Oracle EHR | NJ systems to combine | Tenet hospital faces 600 nurse complaints | Anesthesiologist pay by state

January 31, 2024

• Cedars-Sinai CEO to depart | Healthcare M&A gets rockier | Johns Hopkins wants payment delay in 'Netflix' case | HCA CFO to retire | Years-old treatment tied to Alzheimer's

January 30, 2024

• Advocate hires Baylor Scott & White exec | Employee stabbed at Ascension hospital | Bailout not in cards for Steward | 17 best healthcare jobs without a degree | Ill. hospital to reopen

January 29, 2024

• Mass General pulls physicians from Steward hospital | CommonSpirit president exits | UCLA to add HCA hospital | What Apple pays for 8 health tech jobs | Retail healthcare sees optics challenge

January 28, 2024

• Dual C-suite roles take off | Systems delve into dentistry | How Scripps combats low-performing metrics | Bold tech ideas from big systems | Inside Fla.'s nurse staffing rebound

January 28, 2024

• Signing bonuses for 13 healthcare jobs | Jefferson taps 5 leaders | 10 things to know about Steward | Surgical tech pay by state | NC system CEO to retire

January 27, 2024

• Has MA lost its luster? | Steward aims to sell 4 hospitals | Penn Med, Tower scrap deal | Mo. hospital operator lays off CEO | The only US high school inside a hospital

January 26, 2024

• Steward closes hospital | Rebrand some cancers, physicians suggest | FTC fights CHS, Novant deal | Amazon CEO: Healthcare 'just kind of nutty' | Mass General Brigham exec off to Rush

January 25, 2024

• 25 burned out specialties, ranked | Hospital closures jolt Wis. officials | UPMC cuts some travel nurse pay | Cleveland Clinic saw peak volumes in 2023 | Providence CEO makes 10 predictions for year ahead

January 24, 2024

• Hospital CEO pay returns to the Hill | HCA ramps up M&A | Lawmakers want answers from Steward | 10 best, worst states to retire | Top systems for diversity: Newsweek

January 23, 2024

• 50 top hospitals: Healthgrades | 2 Wis. hospitals to close | Hospitals outgrow Great Resignation narrative | A spate of IT job cuts | What's a 'Midwestern' health system, anyway?

January 22, 2024

• NY mulls hospital closure | HHS clarifies EMTALA for hospitals | UPMC faces antitrust suit | Intermountain ends precision med arm | Nursing the most trusted profession — again

January 21, 2024

• The fastest-growing executive job in America | 5 hospitals cutting jobs | Viewpoint: Trouble with 'doctors in name only' | 31 executive moves | Ill. system to pay $55M antitrust settlement

January 20, 2024

• ED boarding at crisis levels: Mass General | Johns Hopkins exec addresses 'Netflix' case | Epic faces patent infringement suit | Summa deal not a 'quick flip,' General Catalyst says | Elizabeth Holmes banned from HHS

January 19, 2024

• Emory cuts CEOs | 20 best hospitals, per Money | Michael Dowling on Northwell's new high school | 11 thoughts on hiring + promoting | Texas hospital exec ordered to pay $11M

January 18, 2024

• Did $100K nurse retention bonuses work? | 20 top-paying healthcare jobs | General Catalyst to buy Summa Health | Pa. medical school opens | NC insurer buys 50+ urgent care clinics

January 17, 2024

• 13 major systems form healthcare high schools | New cancer diagnoses set to hit new high | Henry Ford fights visa rejections | Cash-strapped Fla. hospital stirs concern | Flurry of hospital M&A starts 2024

January 16, 2024

• HCA hospital's Medicare contract at risk | Mayo taps telehealth for weight loss drugs | NY hospital CEO ousted | The 'Epic effect' | Hospitals delay surgeries amid frigid temps

January 14, 2024

• Cleveland Clinic expands remote workforce | Hospitals' digital innovation wish list | Rural hospitals + 'absentee owners' | CIOs go back to basics | How 5 execs identify budding talent

January 14, 2024

• Walmart Health seeks leaders | 5 new drug shortages | Calif. may delay healthcare pay law | 15 executive retirements | 10 Medicare Advantage updates

January 13, 2024

• Hospitals aren't breaking up with MA: UnitedHealth | Man stabbed at NY hospital | NJ systems to combine | Joint Commission trims infection standards | 'Quiet management' in healthcare

January 12, 2024

• Cancer patients are getting younger | Penn Med to add 6 hospitals | NYU Langone names CFO | Can hospitals save middle management? | Intermountain adjusts student loan support | AMA suggests more talking, less messaging

January 11, 2024

• Nurses probe Ascension closures | Hospital asks community to rebuild cash reserves | 8 CEO moves | States ranked by preventable hospital stays | No physician M&A for Cigna: 'We'll never be able to own the best of everything'

January 10, 2024

• 26 best healthcare jobs | 10 Shkreli awardees for bad behavior | Baptist drops MA plans | HCA worth watching: Bloomberg | Sutter taps CFO | RWJBarnabas trims IT jobs

January 9, 2024

• Ascension exec heads to Jefferson | NY systems get cease and desists | An overlooked driver of COVID admissions | Why Judy Faulkner embraces costumes | 4 Ozempic updates

January 8, 2024

• Amazon delves into health monitoring | La. medical board's diversity rule spurs suit | Flu activity by state | Hackers skip data encryption to preserve patient care | Kettering hospital to close ER

January 7, 2024

• Optum, Elevance to scoop up providers | 38 exec moves | NP, PA pay by region | 40 cities with worst commercial insurer competition | Geisinger halves operating loss

January 6, 2024

• The first called-off hospital merger of 2024 | Hospitals sue ransomware group | Pediatric beds fill up | FDA probes weight loss drug side effects | 15 best, worst cities for jobs

January 5, 2024

• Mark Cuban: CEOs 'waste a sh-tload' on healthcare | Memorial Hermann drops Humana MA | Police probe Ore. hospital amid patient death reports | Eli Lilly to sell weight loss drugs directly to consumers | OHSU Health CEO to exit

January 4, 2024

• SSM, Optum end partnership | 'Everyone is nervous': Hospital CEO talks closures | 16 CEO exits | Mercy adds 3 hospitals | Nursing exam's pass rate renews debate

January 3, 2024

• Michael Dowling's pressing question for CEOs | Baffling bidder, Tower rejects 4th offer | New CMS rules take effect | 46 CEO resignations | NY to curb medical debt lawsuits

January 2, 2024

• Healthcare in 2024: 12 trends of note | Police probe death at Ore. hospital | Prisma, UnitedHealthcare split | Ill. hospital CEO suspended | 105 hospitals cutting jobs

December 31, 2023

• 10 top Google health searches of 2023 | Are hospitals ready for younger workers? | Northwell CEO calls for return of role models | Epic's 2024 plans | Will hospitals regret Medicare Advantage splits in the year ahead?

December 30, 2023

• 20 CEO + CFO changes of note | Johns Hopkins sees small win in 'Netflix' case | 10 hospital bankruptcies | A hot topic for healthcare C-suites | 18 hospitals opting for Epic

December 29, 2023

• 34 systems ranked by margins | Senators target MA denials | 52 busiest ERs | HCA hospital CEO to exit | From PTO to bullying: Executive notes on workforce shifts

December 28, 2023

• Pa. hospital sale stirs concern | Virus-driven ED visits up 21% | Calif. system CEO to retire | CEOs shift focus to growth | 42 healthcare leaders under 40

December 27, 2023

• The safety risks of PE takeovers | 13 CommonSpirit exec moves | Healthcare CEO indicted on 40 counts | Mass. cuts mental health Qs from credentialing | 9 hospitals hit with credit downgrades

December 26, 2023

• 2 injured in Va. hospital shooting | NY scraps noncompete ban | Hospital blames EHR in bankruptcy | ChristianaCare settles kickback suit for $47M | 25 healthiest cities

December 24, 2023

• Best hospital by state, per Newsweek | NP pay medians | Risks of promotions sans raises | Thousands overdose on weight loss drugs | 35 CFO resignations

December 23, 2023

• Healthcare's labor trap | NY system board sued over CEO's ouster | Hospital masking returns | FTC scrutiny at 20-year high | What systems pay for EHRs

December 22, 2023

• Mount Sinai gets cease and desist | PA median pay by state | U of Wis. cleared in nurse dispute | 15 CEO moves | MRIs recalled | Calif. hospital to cut 23 nurses

December 21, 2023

• RN median pay by state | Pa. hospitals up for sale | 19 C-level openings at Tenet | Flu spread by state | University Hospitals cuts $250M in costs | Insurers hire malpractice-prone physicians: Report

December 20, 2023

• Jefferson, Lehigh Valley to merge | A growing C-suite fixture | Strike set at 4 Prime hospitals | Kaiser to cut 79 admin jobs | The $1B firm sidestepping insurers for surgeries

December 19, 2023

• Tenet hospital deal called off | Feds sue Steward | UH cuts Epic install cost to $400M | More systems limit weight loss drug coverage | 5 most stressful healthcare jobs

December 18, 2023

• Will RN pay raise healthcare costs? | 25 largest systems by physicians | Texas system CEO to retire | US satisfaction with 9 healthcare groups | Virus activity high in 17 states

December 17, 2023

• Why hospital names are like iPhone apps | 2023 in 1 word, per system leaders | Tampa General embraces self-disruption | CHS' cost-cutting plan | How AdventHealth cut RN turnover 39%

December 17, 2023

• 30 executive moves | Nurse awarded $41M over firing | 34 hot Medicare Advantage markets | Fla. healthcare package: 5 takeaways | 13 of 20 popular drugs in shortage

December 16, 2023

• Why healthcare needs more Swifties | Nurses cheer on NC's HCA suit | 14 hospital closures | Johns Hopkins awaits retrial decision in Netflix case | What hospitals pay Epic talent

December 15, 2023

• NC sues HCA | 25 largest systems by beds | Orlando Health makes $734M turnaround | Northwell exec starts at Jefferson | Joint Commission updates 'suicide' definition | Amazon's pay for 7 healthcare jobs

December 14, 2023

• 19 best-managed healthcare cos. | Emory leaves hospital CEO spot vacant | Prime divests Calif. hospital | 68 financially strong systems | 12 CEO moves | Healthcare spending hits $4.5 trillion

December 13, 2023

• The layoff runway lengthens | Allegheny CFO resigns | 16 C-level openings at HCA | Burnout climbs to boards | Memorial Sloan Kettering gets $400M gift | 15 states with high virus activity

December 12, 2023

• A $700M Epic journey | Beth Israel Lahey restructures execs | Man gets 20 years for fatal hospital shooting | Prime workers to strike at 4 hospitals | Cigna still exploring MA sale

December 11, 2023

• Fla. ERs face new rules | CommonSpirit hires COO from Ardent | Nurse's death investigated as homicide | Cigna, Humana end merger talks | 100 of the largest hospitals, systems

December 10, 2023

• Pa. hospital CEO resigns | Netflix film haunts hospital PR teams | Calif. system mulls Tenet breakup | PA, NP and RN salaries, by state | Ohio hospital has '50-50' shot at survival

December 9, 2023

• Johns Hopkins taps CEO | 3 workers stabbed at NJ hospital: Police | Why hospitals, Epic don't compete for talent | COVID, flu admissions climb | 28 Joint Commission moves in '23

December 8, 2023

• Walmart hires health system execs | PE-owned hospitals face probe | Novant COO heads to UNC | Newsom hints at changes to healthcare wage law | 8 largest hospital-at-home programs | Cleveland Clinic brings consults to Mexico

December 7, 2023

• The Mark Cuban effect is here | Noncompete ban looms for NY hospitals | 17 hospitals pick Epic | How Trinity, CommonSpirit + Providence stack up | Virus-packed holiday season ahead

December 6, 2023

• Fortune's 15 top systems + Leapfrog's 132 top hospitals | Steward hospital to close | CVS reboots care strategy | 2024 to 'make or break' hospitals: Fitch | Why Epic doesn't outsource calls

December 5, 2023

• Adventist, Blue Shield of Calif. split | 50 states ranked by health | Beth Israel closure gets pushback | Exec turnover at Optum, CVS | 9 latest hospital M&A deals

December 4, 2023

• ACA regains attention for 2024 election | HCA buys 3 hospitals | La. hospital chief retires after board ouster | Pediatric pneumonia on the rise: 4 notes | Jefferson patient actors seek unionization

December 3, 2023

• NP growth shifts hospital hierarchies | Providence's plan for hybrid-era accountability | Inside Cleveland Clinic's international strategy | Healthcare CEOs' year of change | CIOs must talk like CFOs

December 2, 2023

• CHS sells 3 hospitals | 15 'overpaid' healthcare CEOs' paths to the top | 100 hospitals cut jobs | Denver Health administers Ebola vaccines | Congress' health policy brain drain

December 2, 2023

• Tenn. hospital CEO, COO resign | Lifepoint, Ascension form JV | 5 best, worst states for jobs | Texas hospital scraps plan to end ED residency | Apple's pay for 10 healthcare jobs

December 1, 2023

• HCA to buy bankrupt hospital | President exits Ascension hospital beset by strikes | Lawmakers look to save hospitals millions | Duke hires Mass General exec | Experts' take on China's respiratory virus surge

November 30, 2023

• Optum now boasts 90,000 physicians | 60 Baptist execs take buyout | Trump renews call to replace ACA | Providence sees $310M Q3 operating loss | NY system CEO to exit | Cigna, Humana 'in talks' to merge

November 29, 2023

• Mayo plans $5B campus redesign | Nurses lose confidence in Minn. system CEO | Rural hospital closures by state | Hospital margins hold steady | Forbes' 30 under 30 in healthcare

November 28, 2023

• Optum faces antitrust suit | Virus season hits hospitals | US to invest in domestic drugs | Amazon's pay for 17 healthcare jobs | NM system taps CEO | When hospital donations go awry

November 27, 2023

• Amazon, healthcare + hubris | Ascension nurses plan more strikes | Hospitals probe Thanksgiving IT disruptions | Johns Hopkins claims juror misconduct in Netflix case | Healthcare's hiring boom

November 26, 2023

• More hospitals split with Medicare Advantage | 72 hospitals scaling back care | Providence's 'secret sauce' for accountability | 13 top nursing programs for men | Fla. hospital starts $29 virtual visits

November 25, 2023

• America's best hospitals to work for, by state | 8 CEO moves | AdventHealth doubles revenue in 7 years | Mass General Brigham sued over infection control | 40 specialties ranked by pay

November 24, 2023

• Texas hospital files for bankruptcy | AMA: Tone down CC'ing on EHR messages | La. hospital board ousted | Johns Hopkins attorney calls $261M verdict a 'mess' | More employers consider narrow networks

November 22, 2023

• Fearing violence, Catholic hospitals remove crosses | Ascension nurses plan management face-off | NYC's Mount Sinai names CEO | What the OpenAI fight says about boards | Advocate sees $79M in 9-mo. operating income

November 21, 2023

• How one system rewrote a big cliché | PeaceHealth to refund patients | Steward names president | Fairview signals doubt with partnership | CMS overpaid Medicare Advantage $16.6B | Active physicians per capita, by state

November 20, 2023

• 15 'overpaid' healthcare CEOs | Suspect named in fatal NH hospital shooting | $40M medical debt payoff fund grows | Ascension names hospital presidents | Flu admissions jump

November 18, 2023

• FTC fights Tenet deal | Police probe NH hospital shooting | Mayo doubles operating income | Hospital refutes social media 'lies' | Systems nix centralized decision-making

November 17, 2023

• Hospital CEOs' silent stress | Wis. system cuts exec pay | Hospital printers go haywire in cyberattack | Intermountain wants 'prepaid' care model | Ex-NBA players found guilty of healthcare fraud | 20 best places to live, per US News

November 16, 2023

• How young is too young to be a nurse? | CommonSpirit sees Q1 $291M operating loss | Md. hospital to close in Feb. | CHS cuts safety events by 89% | 20 best cities to retire, per US News

November 15, 2023

• UCLA sues Barbie-maker | Hackensack, One Medical partner | Hospital worker dies after patient attack | HCA's $5B market share investment | What hospitals pay Epic talent | 'Shrinkflation' hits healthcare

November 14, 2023

• Johns Hopkins Netflix case spurs internal probe | 350 top hospitals for nurse communication | Mayo to limit weight loss drug coverage | Geisinger COO to exit | Systems offer staff buyouts

November 13, 2023

• Nurse bullying endures | NC hospital CEO exits | Hospitals go all in on retention | When Judy Faulkner says 'no' | 15 most, least overweight states

November 12, 2023

• Johns Hopkins to pay $261M in Netflix case | LA hospital at risk of closure | 15 most common passwords | Ascension nurses plan Thanksgiving week strike | 37 exec resignations

November 11, 2023

• CommonSpirit, One Medical partner | Mass General Brigham offers buyouts | CFO fired after hospital learns of criminal record | Wis. nurses take safety reports to state | 'Great Retirement' persists

November 10, 2023

• Johns Hopkins loses Netflix case | Police shoot, kill man outside NC hospital | Kaiser, union ratify contract | LifePoint names CFO | Mayo exec: We can't 'recruit out of a workforce shortage' | 'Pharmageddon' group pursues unionization

November 09, 2023

• Optum closes clinics | Trinity exec exits | Ascension taps 7 strategy leaders | Senate floats delay for $16B cuts | Walmart: Hospitals' friend or foe? | Margin relief nearing, per Moody's

November 08, 2023

• Amazon unveils One Medical for Prime | Ex-Kettering execs misused funds: Probe | Aftermath of a C-suite slimdown | ED visits for flu, RSV rise | NJ officials sound alarm on hospital's finances

November 07, 2023

• Why Walmart picked Orlando Health | Tenn. AG scrutinizes Ballad | Cigna eyes Medicare Advantage exit | Providence nurses to strike | Star ratings of Leapfrog's 'F' + straight-'A' hospitals

November 06, 2023

• Hospital pay boost to cost Calif. $4B | 29 hospitals ace, flunk patient safety: Leapfrog | A C-suite role fades | ED visit times, by state | Envision exits bankruptcy

November 05, 2023

• What nurses don't want automated | Systems revamp COO role | A 'sobering' stat for Jefferson's president | 4 CEOs' burning questions | Risant + General Catalyst: 2 paths to a health system buy

November 05, 2023

• Top hospitals for nurses | Minn. system cuts 250 jobs | 37 rural hospital closures | Epic's hospital partnerships climb | 42 exec moves

November 04, 2023

• CDC panel backs looser hospital masking | Kaiser footprint grows | Johns Hopkins patient death ruled homicide | Hospitals sue HHS over pixel tracking | The risks of daylight saving

November 03, 2023

• CMS' 4 final payment rules: 19 takeaways | CVS layoffs hit 5 more states | Nurse found dead in patient's home | UTMB reorganizes exec team | The 'Beyoncés' of healthcare

November 02, 2023

• Walmart partners with 1st system | HCA may face AG suit | A quiet 'pharmageddon' | 10 hospitals with shortest, longest ED visits | Doctor, physician or provider: Who should use which?

November 01, 2023

• Hospitals, Medicare Advantage + breakup blues | Texas system lays off 288 | Hospital decries bullying amid unionization push | Chicago safety-net CEO takes Kaiser job | 60 influential health system CEOs

October 31, 2023

• Can healthcare soar like aviation? | Tenet profit dips | Strep, new COVID strain hit US | Tufts, Intermountain CEOs on worker trust | DOJ signals caution for healthcare M&A

October 30, 2023

• Nurses rate hospitals by pay | Pa. system cuts 200+ jobs | Walkouts could surprise CVS, Walgreens today | 17 CEO exits | Healthcare's 'boomerang' workforce | 21 called-off hospital deals

October 29, 2023

• Hospitals' CEO-worker pay ratios | Former Medicare Advantage exec charged in $53M fraud case | 20 cities with population booms | General Catalyst's 99 healthcare firms | 26 elite hospitals, per patients + providers

October 28, 2023

• Chicago system CEO to exit | Beth Israel to close | NJ hospital, Bernie Sanders spar | The career 'ladder' is out | Aetna plans more layoffs | 14 hospitals picking Cerner

October 27, 2023

• CEOs' big quit | CHS sees $91M net loss in Q3 | Mount Sinai COO heads to Penn Med | Wife of Fla. hospital CEO charged with nurse battery | Few rural hospitals go with CMS' new model | Hospitals ranked by nurse workload

October 26, 2023

• Best hospitals by state | Michael Dowling: Where are the role models? | Payer-provider fights flare up | HCA exec leaves for Sutter | 8 new drug shortages | PeaceHealth, Prime hospitals cut services

October 25, 2023

• How Epic wooed AMCs | Dr. Marc Boom bests mediocrity | HCA profit dips | How long will healthcare's strike era last? | Healthgrades' top hospitals for specialty care

October 24, 2023

• Healthcare restructuring hits CEOs | Projected RN wage growth by 2033 | NY system delays service cut over equity concerns | Intermountain's approach to 'value' | Lifespan, Brown expand partnership

October 23, 2023

• New C-suite role gains traction | Advocate doubles down on innovation | Duke CEO's 3-word mantra | How Keck unburdens nurse managers | The rise of interim leaders | 49 execs' strategy plans for 2024

October 22, 2023

• New C-suite role gains traction | Advocate doubles down on innovation | Duke CEO's 3-word mantra | How Keck unburdens nurse managers | The rise of interim leaders | 49 execs' strategy plans for 2024

October 22, 2023

• Nurses rate health systems | Top-paid healthcare CEOs | Hospitals stop covering weight loss drugs | 20 exec moves | Employees seize the sick day | Top Medicare Advantage plan by state

October 21, 2023

• 39 hospitals with most ED visits | CEOs urge 'fiscal prudence on steroids' | Intermountain taps CFO | Traffic may cost Stanford $4M | Healthcare's 'no-win' jobs | Trinity leans into MA

October 20, 2023

• Health systems' boom-town bets | Trinity names strategy chief | Crozer up for sale | Consumers happier with insurers than hospitals | CMS' drug shortage fix falls short | Phoenix gets new med school

October 19, 2023

• Hospital CEO pay hits the Hill | Henry Ford, Ascension team up | PeaceHealth strikers risk insurance | Large Texas hospital ends emergency med residency | Elevance profits down 20%

October 18, 2023

• General Catalyst's health system 'wish list' | Hospitals sour on MA | NYC Health + Hospitals to cut 1,500 temp RNs | Pa. hospital probes patient death | C-suites realign amid growth

October 17, 2023

• Hospitals' brick-and-mortar paradox | Ill. hospital CEO dies after surgery | Walgreens, CVS workers plan nationwide strike | Calif. systems prep for $25 minimum wage | MA plans lose star status

October 16, 2023

• Calif. lifts hospitals' minimum wage | Rite Aid files for bankruptcy | Allina physicians unionize | CVS CFO takes leave | MGB chief downplays Dana-Farber split | Healthcare lost 145,213 providers '21-'22

October 15, 2023

• 40 specialties ranked by pay | 10 best, worst states for healthcare | 1 day, 4 exec exits | 41 hospitals hit with credit downgrades | 18 hospital bankruptcies, closures

October 14, 2023

• Kaiser, union draft deal with 21% raises | UnitedHealth wants cheaper Ozempic | NY hospitals get ultimatum | UPMC expands overseas | Calif. makes RN license for retirees

October 13, 2023

• CommonSpirit reorganizes | NY system CEO exits | 6 Joint Commission alerts, advisories | Projected pay shifts for 3 healthcare roles | Atrium to launch AI 'copilot' in 40 hospitals

October 12, 2023

• UnityPoint CEO exits upon canceled merger | Elevance cuts jobs | Dana-Farber CEO on Brigham breakup | Physician pay: 118 stats | Envision plans its comeback

October 11, 2023

• Will employers squeeze hospitals? | Kaiser on alert for 2nd strike | Walmart launches virtual primary care for workers | Calif. system CEO resigns | Men with guns arrested at NY hospital

October 10, 2023

• Kan. hospital abruptly closes | The lure of 'no-win' jobs | Mercy adds new region | Health systems vs. the housing crisis | 5 drugs now in shortage | Man charged in NY nurse stabbings

October 09, 2023

• General Catalyst eyes health system buy | Prime workers strike at 4 hospitals | Dollar General's care pilot gets mixed reviews | Calif. takes step to universal healthcare | UH moves to Epic

October 08, 2023

• The upside of workforce challenges | How Christus is cutting LOS | Grady eyes healthcare deserts | Why CNOs need 'elbow time' | Scripps' secret for financial health? A 'fortresslike balance sheet

October 08, 2023

• Texas hospital to close | Hospital staff are 'rusting out' | 11 highest-paid CEOs' paths to the top | Another Kaiser strike possible: Unions | Judy Faulkner's wealth climbs to $7.4B

October 07, 2023

• 29 burned out specialties, ranked | 2.4K Prime workers to strike | Emory revamps hospital leadership | 19 called-off hospital deals | Where hospital profitability is rising

October 06, 2023

• Why Walmart doesn't partner with hospitals | Novant lays off leaders | Union, Kaiser talks stall | CEO apologizes for nurses' leaked info | 9 hospital bankruptcies

October 05, 2023

• What's the plan for hospitals' plans? | 75K Kaiser staff strike | Why Judy Faulkner prefers 'congrats' | States scrutinize 'Dr.' title | Top-paying healthcare jobs in 30 cities

October 04, 2023

• Healthcare employment's bright spots | HCA's $234M hospital proposal denied | How hospitals can prevent escapes | Healthcare's 11 wealthiest people | A positive spin on 'quiet quitting'

October 03, 2023

• Mass. system files for bankruptcy, cites EHR | Tenet workers vote to strike | ChristianaCare allots $47M to settle kickback suit | Walgreens CIO to exit | Projected shortages for 6 healthcare roles

October 02, 2023

• 75K Kaiser staff prepare to strike | Hospital margins inch up | Staff stabbed at NY hospital: Police | Cigna to settle false claims suit for $172M | 14 hospitals switching to Epic

October 01, 2023

• Costco rate hike looms after healthcare bet | Why Cleveland Clinic's getting hundreds of referrals | 44 hospitals most like America's top 10 | 9 hospitals hit with credit downgrades | Trinity posts $431M loss

September 30, 2023

• Walgreens' CEO contender | RN, NP and PA salaries by state | 10 'overpaid' CEOs' path to the top | Nurse degree sham still unfolds | 4 hospital closures, bankruptcies

September 29, 2023

• Nurse training fees get pushback | Staff protest ouster of NY system CEO | HCA, Catholic system eye merger | Odds of shutdown grow: 5 updates | Cleveland Clinic embraces 'friendtors'

September 28, 2023

• Why hospitals are ditching Medicare Advantage | Comeback summer for hospital jobs | Mich. system to scale back care at rural hospitals | MultiCare physicians OK strike | Systems nix 'stupid stuff'

September 27, 2023

• 58 best healthcare employers, per US News | Bosses defend PTO | Calif. hospital CEO abruptly exits | Providence hits record for hiring | Centene to cut 2K jobs

September 26, 2023

• Costco bulks up healthcare: Takeaways for hospitals | Largest healthcare strike ever looms | CEO blames Ill. hospital closure on bank | How Judy Faulkner greets office visitors | 49 hospitals with 5+ Magnet certifications

September 25, 2023

• HHS preps skeleton crew for shutdown | CommonSpirit cuts 2K jobs | Costco delves into primary care | Sign-on bonuses for 9 specialties | Mass., Ohio hospitals end maternity care

September 24, 2023

• Fastest-growing C-suite role faces reinvention | Aftermath of a 1st place US News rank | BJC's fail fast, learn fast culture | Systems ramp up AI expertise | How a 4-time Magnet system retains nurses

September 24, 2023

• Why 7 hospitals closed | NY system CEO ousted | Houston Methodist EVP to head Texas Children's | The state of quiet quitting | Apple's pay for healthcare jobs

September 23, 2023

• A summer of hospital escapes | CHOP defends CEO pay | 100 top hospitals: Fortune | 500K to regain Medicaid coverage | Miss. Hospital Association fires president

September 22, 2023

• The cost of physician turnover | Penn Med hospital leader resigns | Johns Hopkins hospital faces $200M lawsuit over Netflix doc | CommonSpirit posts $1.4B operating loss | The 'most loved' workplaces in healthcare

September 21, 2023

• Ind. hospital to end inpatient care | Mark Cuban's 'secret shoppers' probe hospital prices | 15 specialties with largest pay jumps | Early signs hint at COVID plateau | Amazon's pay for 11 healthcare jobs

September 20, 2023

• How Ascension is paring down amid $3B loss | Relatives alleviating nursing gaps | MRIs and fashion shows | 69 exec changes at HCA | NJ hospital gets restraining order against union

September 19, 2023

• 26 systems preferred 2:1 over competitors | Kaiser taps regional president | Joint Commission's new certification | Texas hospital to reopen | What it's like to partner with One Medical

September 18, 2023

• CDC hints at looser masking in hospitals | HCA to sell Ind. hospital | As shutdown looms, hospitals urge Congress to halt $8B cuts | 100 hospital benchmarks | 23 exec moves | Gen Z moves into boardrooms

September 17, 2023

• ER visit times, by state | 56 hospitals scaling back care | Why Centura ended | Trinity names market CEO | Miss. hospital struggles with payroll

September 16, 2023

• IU Health hit with AG suit | Brigham execs 'stunned' by Dana-Farber split | CDC's tripledemic forecast | An abundance of 'St. Luke's' | What hospitals pay Epic talent

September 15, 2023

• Mount Sinai Beth Israel to close in NYC | Dana-Farber breaks from Brigham | Kaiser workers authorize strike | Hospital CEOs warned of 'deepfakes' | Ascension posts $3B operating loss

September 14, 2023

• Advocate names Ill. president | 20 'smartest' hospitals | Trinity intros hybrid nurse teams | 17 profitable systems | Judy Faulkner's business advice

September 13, 2023

• A budget blindspot in healthcare | Kan. system CEO steps down | 4 Texas hospital bankruptcies, closures | IRS appeals ruling on Mayo tax dispute | 10 happiest US states

September 12, 2023

• Nurses protest at home of hospital CEO | 11 days, 11 exec exits | Geisinger, Best Buy expand partnership | The 85% rule | Layoffs at Optum: 3 updates | Patient charged in RI nurse assault

September 11, 2023

• Best hospitals to work for, by state | Police probe death at NJ hospital | A hopeful sign for flu season | Intermountain picks Epic | Walmart eyes ChenMed buy

September 10, 2023

• Ill. system CFO abruptly exits | Judy Faulkner: No golf, alcohol at meetings | Prisma denied restraining order against UnitedHealthcare | Cleveland Clinic's international growth plans | 36 stats on hospital revenue

September 10, 2023

• The era of lonely physicians | Inside UPMC's move to Epic | Walgreens' CEO search may lead to hospitals | MetroHealth CNO's path to the C-suite | Why CIOs are hesitant about gen AI

September 09, 2023

• Texas hospital files for Chapter 11 | Kaiser trash probe ends in $49M settlement | Biden advised on patient safety | Hospital-payer talks go awry | Nurse in critical condition after patient attack

September 08, 2023

• 'Tripledemic' forecast for hospitals | Sanford C-suite grows | Pa. hospital turns to GoFundMe | Northwell's operating margin triples | Suspect escapes custody at DC hospital

September 07, 2023

• Mich. system exec resigns | Best healthcare workplaces: Fortune | Miss. hospital shooting victim dies | CommonSpirit names 5 hospital CEOs | Hospitals warned about pixel tracking | How 21 systems fared in Q2

September 06, 2023

• Police probe Miss. hospital shooting | CMS debuts pop health payments | RSV rises in Southeast | Intermountain operating income falls 35% | When C-level jobs get too big for one person

September 05, 2023

• Dozens arrested at Kaiser protest | Novant CFO exits for UPMC | M&A scorecard for 13 hospital deals | Ore. hospital closure gets pushback | US News hospitals with MyChart fees

September 03, 2023

• Is rudeness here to stay? | UnitedHealthcare challenges Prisma restraining order | Shuttered Ill. hospital files for Chapter 11 | 81 hospitals cutting jobs | 11 physician specialties ranked by average incentive bonus

September 02, 2023

• Big companies crave healthcare-savvy CEOs | Why this hospital cut 20% of leaders | Humana sues HHS over MA clawbacks | 21 CEO, CFO exits | The rising 'richcession'

September 01, 2023

• Advocate CFO resigns | One Medical CEO to exit | Hospital service cuts get pushback | What an overtime pay change could cost healthcare | Healthcare's most dangerous workplaces

August 31, 2023

• Texas hospital files for Chapter 11 | Prisma seeks restraining order against UnitedHealthcare | Pa. hospital struggles to meet payroll | Providence hospital CEO exits | COVID admissions up in 37 states

August 30, 2023

• CHS leans into virtual sitting | Job cuts reach nurses | Fla. hospitals brace for Idalia | 6 physician specialties with highest burnout | Ga. system names 4 execs

August 29, 2023

• HCA, Google partner | Healthcare's newest C-suite roles | Bon Secours sues Anthem over unpaid claims | 'Quiet cutting' in hospitals | Nurses, actors unite against common threat

August 28, 2023

• Hospital margins backslide | Amazon Clinic sees high demand | Companies embrace 'quiet cutting' | NJ hospital to halt strikers' health benefits | A foggy view of RN vacancy rates

August 27, 2023

• CEO bucks exec turnover trend | Take the PTO, says Mercy's HR chief | Ochsner doubles down on physician wellness | Former Kaiser CEO questions Risant | 13 leadership 'don'ts'

August 27, 2023

• 20 top-paid healthcare CEOs | 4 hospital closures in 3 weeks | Sutter's $400M antitrust win faces scrutiny | 8 exec resignations | Wage floor rises as wealthy's fortunes sink

August 26, 2023

• Where hospital masking is returning | Top-paying state for 25 hospital jobs | Patient found dead in Montefiore clinic | UPMC's profit drops 82% | Epic's dominance: 9 notes

August 25, 2023

• CVS layoffs hit 9 states | Kan. system replaces interim chief | Tenet insiders sell shares | CommonSpirit name to adorn hospitals | Judy Faulkner's plans for Epic

August 24, 2023

• Hospitals revisit mask rules | Michael Dowling: Burnout wins when we're vague | Mich. system lays off execs | Amazon tiers healthcare prices | Allina cancels billing policy after scrutiny

August 23, 2023

• Optum lays off nurses | Ore. hospital to close | The starting salary slowdown | SSM restructures in Wis. | Amazon's pay for 14 healthcare jobs

August 22, 2023

• Risant's plan to outshine disruptors | 11 hospital closures, bankruptcies | Corewell president exits | A new era of physician contracts | PA pay, by specialty | How to tear the 'paper ceiling'

August 21, 2023

• States take on 'Dr.' debate | Another hospital reinstates masks | Healthcare overrun with 'middlemen': Viewpoint | Deals sour for top hospital landlord | 10 most, least stressful healthcare jobs

August 20, 2023

• Mark Cuban and 'do less' disruption | 20 pay averages for physicians, APPs | UnityPoint restructures execs | 17K vacant jobs at top hospitals | The rich get poorer

August 19, 2023

• Layoffs hit Aetna | NY hospital reinstates masks | Allina faces billing probe | Calif. hospital sees 3 CEOs in 8 mos. | Call temp nurses 'employees,' staffing firms say

August 18, 2023

• Where nurses are rebounding | Ohio system shakes up leadership | CMS fines hospitals over price transparency | A NY system's 'secret sauce' for genuine care | 80 hospitals cutting jobs

August 17, 2023

• What Netflix chaos holds for healthcare | 8 CEO exits | Gas station co. enters urgent care | Nurse ratios win over West Coast | Joint Commission, NQF combine

August 16, 2023

• Hospitals pay millions to get paid | Healthcare's widest CEO-worker pay gaps | Vanderbilt bills for MyChart | Physician signing bonuses up 21% | Intermountain names market chief

August 15, 2023

• Why Penn Medicine's CEO backs staff ratios | Mayo to bill for MyChart | The C-suites bulking up | HCA execs sell shares | 50 top-paying nurse jobs

August 14, 2023

• Tufts to outsource 500+ jobs | Hospitals' world of denial | COVID admissions rise for 5th week | Hospitals get PHE over Hawaii wildfires | 50 most common passwords

August 13, 2023

• Why Michael Dowling cuts his own hedges | C-suite leader quietly becomes EMT | Hospital staff bonuses face scrutiny | Orlando Health's 24/7 social media strategy | 1 hospital's path to critical access status

August 13, 2023

• 15 top hospitals for nurses | Mich. system CEO to step down | HCA skirted union on COVID pay, board rules | Healthcare layoffs in 21 numbers | Hospitals' noise problem

August 12, 2023

• Layoffs hit Optum | HCA, Bon Secours spar over ERs | AdventHealth sues MultiPlan for alleged price fixing | 20 systems tweaking exec teams | HHS warns hospitals about 'smishing'

August 11, 2023

• What is 'loud quitting'? | 10 states with widest CEO-worker pay gaps | Healthcare, home of dangerous jobs | Amazon, CVS face off for seniors | The unsolved case of med-surg nurses

August 10, 2023

• Healthcare M&A hits a low | The big systems billing for MyChart | Health system 'redesigns' loom | 5 Joint Commission changes | Workers and 'grumpy staying'

August 09, 2023

• Ill. system lays off 20% of leaders | 59 HCA exec changes | The workplaces hiring twice as fast | Kaiser opens Calif. hospital | 10 systems with most improved brands

August 08, 2023

• The end of 'forever CEOs' | What Amazon Clinic means for hospitals | CommonSpirit, Cleveland Clinic tap C-level leaders | 5 hospital bankruptcies | Let nurses be nurses, ANA leader says

August 07, 2023

• Amazon, healthcare and head noise | NPs: Fastest-growing job by 2031 | Optum reshuffles leadership | U of Iowa to acquire troubled hospital | Hospital expenses per inpatient day in 50 states

August 06, 2023

• A week of 3 hospital closures | 10 top-paying nursing jobs | 76 hospitals cutting jobs | How CHS, Tenet, HCA and UHS fared in Q2 | 25 exec moves

August 05, 2023

• Nurses eye side gigs as exit strategy | Mo. hospital to close | Chicago hospital cited for patient death | Trinity, RWJBarnabas workers strike | Optum names president

August 04, 2023

• NC hospital closes | CEO job loses luster | Big systems break up with Oracle Cerner | HCA revenue by payer | 277 top hospitals for patient experience | Kaiser names privacy chief

August 03, 2023

• Hospitals knock 3% payment bump | Job cuts reach the C-suite | Hospitals fight fallacy of 0% margins | Star ratings of US News' best hospitals | Global fight for healthcare pros heats up

August 02, 2023

• Mich. hospital to close | Centura folds into CommonSpirit | CEO exits HCA hospital | Brigham and Women's nurses lose confidence in VP | Google hiring for 3 healthcare jobs

August 01, 2023

• US News: 22 best hospitals + No. 1 by state | HCA accused of discrimination | 49 systems with strong finances | CVS Health to cut 5,000 jobs | 6 hospitals seeking CEOs

July 31, 2023

• 10 best, worst states for healthcare | CHS hospital CEO to exit | US nurse abducted in Haiti | Hospital margins improve to 1.4% | The end of deferred care

July 30, 2023

• The CEO who welcomes all questions — even about pay | A nurse leader's case against staff ratios | Hospitals embrace 5G | How CHOP moves the needle on DEI | Why CHS is offloading hospitals

July 30, 2023

• 15 unhappiest nurse jobs | 15 best, worst states for physicians | 218 CEO moves | CHS shed 30 hospitals since '20 | 153 great community hospitals

July 29, 2023

• UHS cherry-picks patients, CFO says | UNC Health to lay off 246 | The star ratings of Leapfrog's straight-'A' hospitals | Execs exit academic systems | 530 top hospitals for staff responsiveness

July 28, 2023

• Sanford, Fairview halt merger | 248 hospitals with 1 CMS star | HCA raises profit forecast | The 15 happiest nurse jobs | COVID admissions bump up | 8 CEO exits

July 27, 2023

• All 483 of CMS' new 5-star hospitals | Tough decisions loom for C-suites | Texas physician wounded in shooting | Trinity workers plan strike | Hospital days cash on hand dips 17%

July 26, 2023

• St. Luke's wins $50M harassment case | CHS to sell 3 hospitals | A richer picture of physician earnings | 300+ hospitals at imminent risk of closure | Let's hear it for middle managers

July 25, 2023

• Jefferson to cut 400 jobs | 44 exec resignations | Mercy restructures | C-suite's fastest growing role hits a snag | Hospitals scramble as staffing company nears closure

July 24, 2023

• Guard killed in Ore. hospital shooting | Jefferson exec exits after Twitter trouble | C-suite pay cuts continue | 36 exec moves | Kaiser facilities brace for pickets

July 23, 2023

• CEOs buck layoff, pay cut trends | AHA: PHE funding study misses mark | 10 hospitals giving raises | 45 hospitals ending services | Joint Commission scraps 200 standards

July 22, 2023

• Epic's hiring boom an anomaly amid tech layoffs | HCA, Tenet EBITDA rises | MyChart billing hasn't curbed emails | Exec turnover at Optum + CVS | Healthcare marketing and the 'sea of sameness' | Physician staffing groups struggle

July 21, 2023

• Healthcare's tedious work is also dangerous | NM hospital CEO resigns | Does nursing need a rebrand? | 72 hospitals cutting jobs | 26 hospitals hit with credit downgrades | Best healthcare employers for millennials

July 20, 2023

• Advertised pay for 50 healthcare jobs | CEOs get serious about labor costs | ED physicians denounce corporate oversight | Chicago hospital workers plan strike | Medicaid redeterminations paused in some states

July 19, 2023

• NPs sue Calif. over use of 'Dr.' | Most socially responsible hospital in each state | A rough time for rookie managers | HCA's urgent care boom | 5 Amazon healthcare jobs

July 18, 2023

• 20 most socially responsible hospitals | Allina to lay off about 350 | Exeter CEO steps down | What is a 'physician leader'? | Physician staffing group to close

July 17, 2023

• 21 exec moves | PHE funds may have overpaid hospitals | 154 top hospitals for care transitions | A 15-minute meeting revamped Cleveland Clinic | Physicians 'gravely concerned' by proposed pay cut | Amazon continues healthcare layoffs

July 16, 2023

• What outsourcing to Optum is like | 8 systems' strategies for affordable care | How Cleveland Clinic brings clinician ideas to life | Sanford fights the 'flyover' state perception | A UPMC nurse's rapid rise to leadership

July 16, 2023

• Pay for 37 hospital jobs | HCA sued over data breach | Health systems zero in on C-suites | Workers to picket at 50 Kaiser facilities | ANA backs staffing ratios

July 15, 2023

• Prisma to outsource 689 jobs | CMS floats physician, outpatient rules: 15 notes | 3 workers stabbed at Fla. hospital: Police | 347 top hospitals for physician communication | 72 COO moves

July 14, 2023

• 364 hospitals with best nurse communication | 8 exec exits in 7 days | Miss. system trims jobs | Only 10% of care fit for home: Mass General Brigham exec | Welcome to 'The Big Stay'

July 13, 2023

• CEOs exit Yale, UnityPoint hospitals | Man charged with murder of surgeon | Aspirus, St. Luke's to form 19-hospital system | 100 hospitals with great heart programs | Google healthcare AI not yet ready for patients

July 12, 2023

• US News won't rank honor roll hospitals | Patient kills Tenn. physician | Amazon discounts healthcare on Prime Day | CHS hospital abruptly ends maternity care | Listed: 171 HCA hospitals hit by data theft

July 11, 2023

• The CEO who wants nurse-patient ratios | 'Tyranny of the urgent' stymies C-suites | UPMC hospital scales back heart care | 20 largest medical groups | 138 drugs in shortage

July 10, 2023

• HCA reports data theft | Police shoot, kill man at Mich. hospital | 22 exec moves | CMS pitches $9B repayment for 340B hospitals | 68 great hospital workplaces, per Newswee

July 08, 2023

• NY system lays off 25 leaders | La. system sees small win in FTC fight | 21 largest physician groups by Medicare fees | Pa. hospital closes ER | Is healthcare really 'recession-proof'?

July 07, 2023

• Healthcare workers keep quitting | 5 hospitals with longest, shortest ED visit times | Paychecks late at Miss. hospital | Mayo sees record year for hiring | 10 CEOs transforming healthcare

July 06, 2023

• NY system bans local travel nurses | Hospital claims architect cost it Medicare certification | Fla. hospital CEO exits | Google hiring for 4 healthcare jobs | The rise of the contract executive

July 05, 2023

• 2 dead in Ind. hospital shooting | US News refines hospital rankings | 11 highest-paid CEOs' paths to the top | RI hospital leaders lose nurses' confidence | 72 CFO moves

July 03, 2023

• Fla. system to cut exec jobs | 42 hospitals scaling back care | 31 exec moves | Beth Israel, Exeter combine | 5 most challenging Joint Commission requisites

July 02, 2023

• University Hospitals' 'goldilocks' strategy | 91% staff retention: How this CEO did it | 4 ChatGPT challenges facing CIOs | Johns Hopkins program tackles nurse burnout | What marketing chiefs think of US News rankings

July 02, 2023

• 35 billionaires in US healthcare | 13 CEO exits | 5 states with top pay for RNs | 23 hospitals hit with credit downgrades | 7 hospitals raising staff pay

July 01, 2023

• Ind. hospital to end inpatient care | 11 highest paid CEOs in healthcare | Ascension nurses return to work | Job cuts continue at Pa. system post-merger | Coding 'destroys everything,' says former hospital CEO

June 30, 2023

• Wash. system to lay off 200+ | 78 charged in $2.5B fraud scheme | Penn Med 'had enough' with hospital rankings | HCA makes 6 hospital, division exec changes | NY mandates critical care staffing ratios

June 29, 2023

• Calif. hospital accused of overpaying execs | Providence opposes 'strikebreakers' law | Ill. hospital to close 4 units | 19 top systems, 27K open jobs | CHS sued again over data breach

June 28, 2023

• Sanford sued over disposed human torso | FTC floats stricter merger reviews | 75+ great hospitals in America | Pickleball: An unlikely threat for insurers | Employment levels in 37 hospital jobs

June 27, 2023

• Physicians exit Kan. hospital after CEO ouster | US News refutes criticism over hospital rankings | Nurses signal 'no confidence' in hospital admin | Hospital capacity problems to persist: Forecasts | 44 stats on specialty physician pay, productivity

June 26, 2023

• Penn Med exits US News rankings | Union: Providence used 'professional strikebreakers' | ER physicians sue shuttered hospital | Optum to acquire Amedisys | 17 hospitals seeking CEOs, CFOs

June 25, 2023

• Nurses per capita, by state | HCA hospital criticized over staffing | 22 exec moves | Johns Hopkins hospital gets backlash over Netflix doc | US News' top children's hospitals, by region

June 24, 2023

• Hospital execs take pay cuts | Tenet names CFO | Harvard Med faces class-action lawsuit | Where nonprofit hospitals see highest expenses | Health insurers cutting jobs

June 23, 2023

• States with the best healthcare systems | 37 exec resignations | Where are all the nurse preceptors? | Highmark, Allegheny lay off 118 | Ex-governor: VCU Health president should resign

June 22, 2023

• 16 profitable health systems | Pay cap for LA hospital CEOs will head to voters | Hospital fined $2M in missing fentanyl case | Walmart Health expands Fla. footprint | Tampa General CEO gets 10-year contract extension

June 21, 2023

• US News unveils top children's hospitals | HCA pushes patients into hospice, clinicians claim | Hospitals close in NY, Ill. | COO job vacant at Ariz. system after shuffle | Why drug shortages might worsen

June 20, 2023

• Kan. hospital fires CEO | CEO pay ratios at 30 healthcare cos. | Providence Oregon workers strike | Novant to buy struggling hospital | Harvard's response to morgue scandal falls short: Experts

June 19, 2023

• 165 CEO moves in '23 | Hospital notifies wrong family about patient death | NYU Langone sues Northwell over ad similarities | 6 healthcare bankruptcies | Nurses take staffing fight to DC

June 18, 2023

• Hospitals will be 'rare exception' | BJC, Saint Luke's CEOs on merging | One hospital takes 'experimental' approach to ChatGPT | What nurses of color want white nurses to know | What EHRs will look like in 25 years

June 18, 2023

• RN pay by state, adjusted by cost of living | 41 systems with strong finances | 62 hospitals cutting jobs | 26 exec moves | Calif. hospital nurses quit as part-time jobs cut

June 17, 2023

• NY hospital to close | Patient shoots self in Fla. hospital | Senators scrutinize Amazon Clinic | Strike set at 3 Ascension hospitals | Healthcare workers value pay, 'a recipe for disaster'

June 16, 2023

• Providence to pause surgeries ahead of strike | Miss. system CEO resigns | Human rights group targets nonprofit hospital debt collection | RN employment, by state | 44 hospitals most like America's top 10

June 15, 2023

• An unsung virtue for executive teams | President exits Calif. hospital after brief term | 9 CEO moves | Healthcare affordability is about to get worse | Body parts stolen, sold from Harvard morgue: Feds

June 14, 2023

• Texas closes 'Dr. Death' loophole | The role most often promoted to CEO | Nurse stabbed at Mass. hospital: Police | The prevalence of 'quiet quitting' | NJ drops hospital vaccine rule

June 13, 2023

• Calif. hospital to lay off 100+ | RN employment, by state | NY to consider staffing rule | 29 specialties ranked by student debt burden | Why this hospital administrator is pro-union

June 12, 2023

• Allina changes care policy | Ill. hospital to close | Vanderbilt hospital president steps down | Physician specialties with highest, lowest net worth | 10 healthiest, unhealthiest cities

June 11, 2023

• RN pay in best, worst states for healthcare | 90+ hospitals cutting jobs, ending services | UPMC surgeon to resign from top post | 34 exec moves | Where labor markets are tightening most

June 10, 2023

• Hospital failed to act over surgeon facing 21 lawsuits | Dartmouth lays off 75 | UnitedHealthcare, Cigna halt policies after pushback | 59 COO moves | More NYC physicians plan strike

June 09, 2023

• Health systems' emerging battleground | Seattle Children's cuts 135 leader roles | Former nurse sentenced in patient's death | Mass. system CFO exits | 100 top critical access hospitals, by state

June 08, 2023

• Why don't millionaires fund med students? | $500M lawsuit aims to boot NYC hospital board | Nurses can vacation with RaDonda Vaught | Mass. system CEO exits | Where nonprofit hospitals see lowest expenses

June 07, 2023

• Staff urge Kaiser hospital to halt surgeries | Ex-Cigna exec barred from CVS | Interim hospital CEO put on leave | Providence expands virtual nursing | 29 systems ranked by margins

June 06, 2023

• Pa. system boycotts US News ranking | HCA hospitals make 12 exec changes | Ascension, Providence workers OK strikes | Wellstar under new scrutiny for hospital closures | Best, worst cities to start a career

June 05, 2023

• 25 top healthcare cos. on new Fortune 500 | Will hospitals stick with US News? | Lawmakers probe Ochsner layoffs | Man charged in killing of DMC nurse | The physician CEO who keeps it real in Chicago

June 04, 2023

• What hospital leaders can learn from Ted Lasso | IU Health to 'march down' premium pay | 4 changes facing C-suites | How hospitals use ChatGPT for marketing | Listen up: New nurses have a few things to say

June 04, 2023

• 10 'overpaid' healthcare CEOs | 60 CEO exits | 35 systems with strong finances | Healthcare job cuts up 81% from last year | 10 states with big drops to travel nurse pay

June 03, 2023

• CMS vaccine rule officially over | Duke to cut 280 jobs | Ore. hospital nurses plan strike | Cancer drug shortage worsens | Why #medicalgaslighting is trending

June 02, 2023

• Allina patients with debt denied some services: NYT | Shooting at Pa. hospital injures 3 | Biden firms up pick for CDC director | UnitedHealthcare revises prior auth rule | 54 hospitals cutting jobs

June 01, 2023

• NY system to fired staff: Come back | Walmart ups healthcare worker pay | Texas hospital appeals price transparency fine | Hospital margins break even | 8 exec resignations

May 31, 2023

• Kaiser gives Denver Health $10M | Man dies after fall from Calif. hospital | Novant posts $15M Q1 loss | Ind. hospital CEO exits | 5 top-paying states for NPs, PAs

May 30, 2023

• HCA workers to refuse voluntary overtime | Ascension posts $1.4B operating loss | Ohio hospital drops BSN requirement | Wash. hospital CNO stepping down | 12 stats on nurse, PA pay bumps

May 28, 2023

• CRNA pay by state, adjusted by cost of living | 8 hospital closures, bankruptcies | 19 exec moves | Google's 5 top-searched injuries | President of 2 Bon Secours hospitals exits

May 27, 2023

• 293 hospitals at immediate risk of closure | Ohio hospital cited over patient assaults | Trinity posts $283M loss | 5 fastest growing nursing jobs | NYU Langone plans $3B campus

May 26, 2023

• La. system scores early win in FTC fight | Nurse charged in 2 patient deaths | PeaceHealth cuts 69 jobs | UPMC doubles operating income | Texas Children's to end transgender care

May 25, 2023

• NY to drop hospital vaccine rule | Minn. nurses decry hospital execs' 'outsized power' | Fired MetroHealth CEO's retaliation claims dismissed | Optum makes 10 exec changes | 6 nonprofit systems back in the black

May 24, 2023

• Minn. hospitals win staffing fight | CEOs' office comeback | Cleveland Clinic posts $136M Q1 gain | Calif. hospital plans bankruptcy | 35 top systems for new grads: Forbes

May 23, 2023

• 53 hospitals cutting jobs | More NYC physicians authorize strike | Providence posts $345M Q1 loss | Mich. hospital CEO steps down | Another system bets big on virtual nursing

May 22, 2023

• NYC physicians start strike | Intermountain posts $549M Q1 income | 646 rural hospitals at risk of closure | Amazon hiring for 8 healthcare jobs | Mayo's staffing carveout: 8 reactions

May 21, 2023

• Geisinger CEO's vision for Risant Health | Nurse turnover 'plummets' at Bon Secours | From PE to bankruptcy: Envision's last 5 years | What rural healthcare will look like in 2030 | CommonSpirit CIO: 'Digital health is simply health'

May 21, 2023

• Top-earning execs at HCA, Tenet, CHS + UHS | Patient survives 6-story fall from hospital window | 159 top maternity hospitals, state by state | 34 exec moves | Best cities to live: US News

May 20, 2023

• Mayo exempt from staffing bill | The 'cockroach' healthcare can't kill | Tenn. hospital sued over fatal defibrillator fire | PA pay in 50 states adjusted by cost of living | Medicaid redeterminations off to rocky start

May 19, 2023

• UPMC faces antitrust complaint | Mayo sees $149M operating gain | Nurses signal 'no confidence' in MultiCare CEO | Closure looms for Miss. hospital | States with highest employment in 37 hospital jobs

May 18, 2023

• 5 new Risant Health details | Mount Sinai hit with understaffing fine | The unhealthiest county in each state | Calif. hospital weighs bankruptcy | 'Medicare for All' bill reintroduced

May 17, 2023

• Ochsner gets blowback for nurse layoffs | The healthiest county in each state | 5 plead guilty in degree scheme | 17 CEO moves | Wash. system nixes COO role

May 16, 2023

• Mayo may be exception to staffing bill | CommonSpirit posts $1.1B loss | Physicians exit Ascension hospital amid AG probe | 6 hospitals seeking CEOs | Kaiser names market SVP

May 15, 2023

• 11 highest paid healthcare CEOs | Workers at 5 HCA hospitals OK strike | Nurse kidnapped outside of Detroit hospital found dead | Envision files for bankruptcy | Mayo doubles down against healthcare bills

May 14, 2023

• 118 stats on physician pay | 6 days, 6 CEO exits | 51 hospitals cutting jobs | Is 'quiet quitting' going up? | 50 things to know about UnitedHealth Group

May 13, 2023

• RN pay in 50 states adjusted by cost of living | Texas hospital cited over patient assaults | The 'best' med school, per ChatGPT | Optum makes 4 exec changes | How 62 systems are dealing with inflation

May 12, 2023

• Top med schools by specialty: US News | Ochsner cuts 770 jobs | 10 states with highest median physician pay | HCA ends nurse training repayment contracts | 32 hospitals cutting services

May 11, 2023

• After delay, US News names top med schools | 1 dead in Va. hospital shooting | CommonSpirit's 5-year virtual nursing plan | HCA hospital CEO out | 27 specialties ranked by annual pay

May 10, 2023

• Top-paying state for 25 hospital jobs | HCA makes 5 exec changes | Kan. hospital CEO resigns | Nurse sentenced in patient's death | Minn. hospital CEOs decry staffing, cost bills

May 09, 2023

• CMS probes Kan. system after patient death | Atlanta hospital reopens after shooting | Worker productivity sinks to 75-year low | Penn Med physicians vote to unionize | 6 hospitals seeking CEOs

May 08, 2023

• Ohio hospital closes | Cedars-Sinai lays off 100+ | Northwell sues worker over morgue photos | Strike set at LA hospital | 12 top healthcare cos. by revenue

May 07, 2023

• Should banking crisis worry hospitals? 4 CFOs answer | Ardent halves intake times with virtual nurses | 1 hospital's path from 'F' to 'A' safety grade | 21 healthcare 'silver linings' | Productive outrage: A crucial leadership trait

May 07, 2023

• Mayo reconsiders Minn. investments over healthcare bills | CMS to Catholic hospital: Keep the candle lit | 10 best, worst states for nurses | 30 exec moves | 55 patient safety experts to know

May 06, 2023

• Texas hospital to appeal price transparency fine | CDC director resigns | CHS sued over data breach | Kaiser posts $233M Q1 profit | Spike in HAIs should 'stop hospitals in their tracks'

May 05, 2023

• Trinity regroups West Coast hospitals | 24 systems with strong finances | Where insurer CEO pay is up most | 8 CEO exits | Ascension to cut services at DC hospital

May 04, 2023

• Atlanta hospital shooting kills 1, wounds 4; suspect in custody | Hospital could lose CMS funding over candle | SD, Miss. systems lay off staff | Razor-thin hospital margins persist | DEA extends telehealth flexibilities

May 03, 2023

• 32 hospitals aced, flunked patient safety: Leapfrog | Pa. hospital to end inpatient care | 10 best states for healthcare | UnitedHealthcare loses $91M billing fight | Hospitals probed over alleged EMTALA violations

May 02, 2023

• HHS to scrap vaccine rule | CommonSpirit adds 5 Steward hospitals | Police shoot woman in Ga. ER | How CHS, HCA, Tenet and UHS fared in Q1 | Kaiser medical group CEO to exit

May 01, 2023

• Nurses return to hospitals – for now | Md. hospital cuts 150 jobs | Emory taps UPMC exec as CEO | Surgeon pay in 50 states | Calif. hospital to replace trauma surgeons

April 30, 2023

• PA pay in 50 states | Ga. hospital lays off CEO | 23 exec moves | Payers ranked by CEO-to-worker pay ratio | 5 hospitals raising staff pay

April 29, 2023

• CMS' tougher price transparency rules: 5 notes | Ohio hospital to close early | Intermountain, OhioHealth ink ASC deals | Providence fired RN for raising safety concerns: Lawsuit | Scripps cuts 70 admin jobs

April 28, 2023

• Texas system lines up president after shakeup | Geisinger to keep name in Kaiser deal | NP pay in 50 states | NYC hospitals face possible strike | Baylor Scott & White rearranges execs

April 27, 2023

• CMS fines hospitals over price transparency | Kaiser, Geisinger to combine | Average pay for 37 hospital jobs | Atrium posts $105M loss | 10 states with most, fewest RN vacancies

April 26, 2023

• RN pay in 50 states: New data | Visa pause spurs recruiting concerns | 6 CEO moves | Ind. system freezes hiring | 49 top hospitals for diversity: Forbes

April 25, 2023

• Interim hospital CEO's job eliminated | Tenet posts $143M Q1 profit | US News' top nursing schools | 13 exec resignations | Gen Zers are 'loud quitting' on TikTok

April 24, 2023

• La. system must keep HCA hospitals open | 18 systems with strong finances | Mo. hospital CEO steps down | Man sets fires in Fla. hospital: Police | 13 systems hit with credit downgrades

April 23, 2023

• What systems can learn from Starbucks | UH gives safety huddles a makeover | ChatGPT vs. CIOs on top health IT issues | Baptist sticks with remote work | The case for advanced nursing degrees

April 23, 2023

• US News delays med school rankings | 20 exec moves | 60+ hospitals cutting jobs, ending services | 14 hospital costs, then and now | 18 pending hospital sales

April 22, 2023

• Duke hospital removes 3 execs | La. system sues FTC over blocked deal | HCA reports $1.36B Q1 income | Northwestern names COO | Mark Cuban hasn't 'f—ed up' pharma yet

April 21, 2023

• CommonSpirit rolls out virtual nursing | Feds charge 18 in $490M COVID schemes | 29 specialties ranked by happiness | HCA hospitals make 7 exec changes | Wash. hospital cuts ties with anesthesia group

April 20, 2023

• Hospital expenses per inpatient day, state by state | Atrium patient dies in golf cart accident | Kettering Health names CEO | 33 COO moves | Why this ED doesn't use its waiting room

April 19, 2023

• Empty CMS parking lot spurs back-to-office push | Ballad CEO defends nurse pay | 11 CEO moves | Even fewer physicians take Medicare, Medicaid patients | Hospital CEO exits accelerate

April 18, 2023

• Exec pay at Tenet, HCA, CHS | Avera CEO to step down | Where RNs face most, least demand | CVS names Aetna CEO | Adventist to acquire troubled hospital

April 17, 2023

• Man pleads guilty to hospital CEO death threats | 22 hospitals ending inpatient care | Optum Q1 revenue hits $54B | 11 specialties ranked by bonuses | SC hospital seeks replacement CEO

April 16, 2023

• 29 specialties ranked by pay | 36 exec moves | 40 hospitals cutting jobs | 15 best, worst job markets | Good v. excellent: Top hospital CEOs

April 15, 2023

• Interim hospital CEO proposes cutting own job | Tenet's top-earning execs | Ohio hospital accused of uncredentialed surgeries | Sutter CFO to exit | Who can go by 'Dr.'? 3 med groups answer

April 14, 2023

• The problem of stuffy hospital CEOs | 800K more nurses eye exit | HHS probed over hospital relief aid | RN violently mishandled newborn: Police | A new flavor of hospital M&A

April 13, 2023

• US News' top med schools, post-boycott | Texas system CEO to step down | AHA slams charity care rankings | Advocate Aurora posts $24M loss | 27 hospitals scale back care

April 12, 2023

• The dollar cost of nurse turnover | 25 hospitals with imbalanced charity care, tax breaks | Health tech execs guilty in $1B scheme | Wis. systems to merge | 19 top systems, 27K open jobs

April 11, 2023

• 25 hospitals where charity care exceeds tax breaks | CMS' inpatient payment rule: 10 notes | 10 things Mark Cuban told Becker's | Hospitals' labor pressures ease: Fitch | 15 best, worst states for children's healthcare

April 10, 2023

• 34 billionaires in US healthcare | Optum buys 400+ physician group | If 'health system' is out, what's next? | LA hospital names CEO | 7 hospitals raising staff pay

April 09, 2023

• The rise of OR 'black boxes' | How nurses saved hospitals $84M | Kaiser staff to get real-time patient feedback | 5 CIOs on next-gen EHRs | Inside 6 of Fortune's 'most innovative' systems

April 09, 2023

• 40 specialties ranked by pay | 38 hospitals cutting jobs | 26 exec moves | 6 hospitals hit with credit downgrades | Where travel RN pay is down most

April 08, 2023

• CHS sells 4 hospitals | CEO used hospital funds to remodel home, complaint alleges | CommonSpirit names sites hit by ransomware | Nurse gets 7 years for 'ghost office' billing | Uninsured rates post-Medicaid redeterminations, by state

April 07, 2023

• Layoffs loom for CommonSpirit | HCA's incentives for top execs | Ascension nurses protest in Texas | CMS finalizes prior auth rule | Hospitals' worst operating year yet

April 06, 2023

• 12 systems with most RNs | Teen posed as hospital PA for a month | Altru trims exec team | Measure to cap hospital exec pay proceeds | Kettering speaks out on misconduct probe

April 05, 2023

• Virginia Mason lays off 300+ | 15 specialties ranked by average billings | Adverse events up 19% | 7 CEO moves | Where travel RN pay is down most

April 04, 2023

• Billings Clinic trims exec pay | New COVID variant in 18 states | Sanford-Fairview deal delayed again | 98% of hospital websites leak patient info | Hospitals with paid trustees tied to less charity care

April 03, 2023

• Hospitals fight effort to cap exec pay | 5 healthiest, unhealthiest cities | Hospital defaults hit 12-year high | CVS exec exits for UnitedHealth | New omicron subvariant 'one to watch': WHO

April 02, 2023

• PA pay, by specialty | 13 CEO exits | 6 hospitals hit with credit downgrades | 149 Black healthcare leaders to know | 5 'most trustworthy' hospitals, per Newsweek

April 01, 2023

• Miss. hospital to end inpatient care | CMS' final MA rule: What to know | MUSC exec resigns amid layoffs | Novant posts $68M operating gain | The less-discussed reason clinicians quit

March 31, 2023

• CHS' top-earning execs | NC hospital risks Medicare funding for 3rd time | US sues hospital staffing co. | Medicaid losses, state-by-state | 33 hospitals cutting jobs

March 30, 2023

• The best hospital, per Google AI | Novant lays off execs | Interim CFO exits Banner | UnitedHealthcare to scrap 20% of prior auths | 58 'most innovative' hospitals, systems

March 29, 2023

• Kettering probes misconduct claims | Steward hospital to lay off 827 in closure | 16 CEO moves | A hospital fight is renewed — over hospitals | Care New England execs lose staff's confidence

March 28, 2023

• Ohio hospital to lay off 743 | Razor-thin margins here to stay | 9 exec exits | Kaiser starts $1B expansion | 30 large systems ranked by online reputation

March 27, 2023

• Hospital employment rebounds | CVS' $8B Signify buy near final | RN pay adjusted by cost of living by state | Wash. hospital lays off workers | 10 most, least stressed states

March 26, 2023

• A nagging question from nurses' degree sham | 18 healthcare CEOs among world's most influential | Kaiser's recipe for brand loyalty | Why some COOs feel optional | AI in healthcare: How far is too far?

March 26, 2023

• 45 hospitals cutting jobs + services | 25 exec moves | Physician specialties ranked by burnout | 'Great Resignation' in 102 numbers | 15 most, least innovative states | 150 top places to work in healthcare

March 25, 2023

• Economists cry foul over hospitals' finances | Ascension St. Vincent CEO to exit | Calif. hospitals accused of patient dumping | After SVB, regulatory Qs swirl in health insurance | NY physician on trial for patient death

March 24, 2023

• Best + worst cities for physician pay | Ind. hospital CEO resigns | 40 specialties ranked by pay | Cone Health cuts senior-level jobs | Henry Ford makes 4 executive changes

March 23, 2023

• Empty CMS parking lot stirs questions | ERs grapple with déjà vu | 10 profitable health systems | 25 COO moves | Calif. hospital stops labor, delivery care

March 22, 2023

• 5 Ascension leaders out in overhaul | 7 CEO moves | Hospitals don't need big Medicare boost: MedPAC | Intermountain posts $121M operating income | C. auris infections surge

March 21, 2023

• 150 top places to work in healthcare | Lawmakers probe HCA Fla. hospital | Mo. system downsizes leadership | Calif. hospital CEO to resign | 10 cities where $100K salary goes furthest

March 20, 2023

• 15 best, worst states for physicians | Northwell picks Epic | 14 systems with strong finances | Providence gets rating downgrade | NY health system CEO steps down

March 19, 2023

• Average RN pay, state by state | 32 exec moves | 27 hospitals cutting jobs | 14 systems with strong finances | 50 top heart hospitals, per Fortune

March 18, 2023

• NY hospital to close | VA links 4 deaths to EHR | 10 systems hit with credit downgrades | NP practice authority, by state | CEO, CFO of Fla. hospital to retire

March 17, 2023

• COOs made to feel optional | 11 exec exits | Nurses defy 'quiet quitting' | Where $100K salary falls short | Physicians urge hospitals to drop US News rankings

March 16, 2023

• Pa. systems cut 228 jobs | HCA's 5 top-earning execs | 50 top heart hospitals, per Fortune | EDs see tough Match Week | 17 canceled hospital deals

March 15, 2023

• Who gets to go by 'Dr.'? | HCA hospitals make 6 exec changes | Nonprofit hospitals saw $28B in tax exemptions | Chicago system CEO to step down | 10 most overweight cities

March 14, 2023

• Va. system eliminates COOs | Penn Med cuts administrative jobs | Healthgrades: 83 top hospitals for patients | Fla. bill bans APRNs from using 'doctor' | 12 cities hit hardest by inflation

March 13, 2023

• Hospitals bill nurses for training fees | Calif. hospital files for bankruptcy | Ariz. hospital CEO exits | 6 systems deemed 'world's most ethical' | Collapse of SVB: 10 notes

March 12, 2023

• How Gen Zers would change healthcare | Cleveland Clinic's new employer offering | Will Amazon, One Medical's 'marriage' work? | A case for more nurse CEOs | The call MSU Health's CMO made after campus shooting

March 12, 2023

• 20 hospitals with best CEO-to-worker pay ratios | 30 exec moves | 10 profitable systems | 35 digital chiefs to know | The best workplaces for women, per Newsweek

March 11, 2023

• Ex-CEO sues hospital for slander | Ascension margin dips to -2.9% | 13 hospitals scaling back care | Calif. hospital closure is 'tip of the iceberg' | Ransomware gang posts more patient photos

March 10, 2023

• Biden's $6.8T budget: 15 healthcare notes | Providence posts $1.7B loss | NJ voids nurses tied to degree sham | 1.4 ghosts per hospital, AI says | FDA chimes in on albuterol shortage

March 09, 2023

• 23 hospitals cutting jobs | CommonSpirit accused of wage theft | Texas hospital nears closure | AtlantiCare CEO to retire | Walgreens loses $54M Calif. contract

March 08, 2023

• 11 systems with strong finances | Are hospitals liable in nurse degree sham? | Va. system cuts jobs, restructures exec team | Ohio hospital president exits | One Medical pushes back on FTC scrutiny

March 07, 2023

• Trinity posts $298M loss | Atrium, Best Buy partner | Calif. probes Prime hospital after patient death | 7 hospitals seeking CEOs | Biden: Budget won't cut Medicare 'a penny'

March 06, 2023

• States lift COVID rules in hospitals | CEO pleads to keep Calif. hospital open | Froedtert freezes some hiring | RaDonda Vaught wants nursing license back | Sanford-Fairview deal faces union fight

March 05, 2023

• 5 hospital closures | 66 exec moves | Epic adds 1,700 jobs | 5 insurers reporting losses | 110 CMOs to know | 22 US hospitals among Newsweek's 100 best in world

March 04, 2023

• Fla. hospital staff get death threats | Inside Presbyterian, UnityPoint's $11B proposed deal | Masks come off in hospitals | States slow to adopt 'physician associate' | Fired MetroHealth CEO hid bonuses, audit says

March 03, 2023

• Ohio hospital to close | Walmart adds 28 clinics | UnityPoint, Presbyterian eye 48-hospital deal | 6 top systems, 19K open jobs | Mount Sinai, Geisinger partner with Best Buy

March 02, 2023

• Texas hospital to close | 22 US hospitals among Newsweek's 100 best in world | Nurses assert innocence in degree sham | Wis. system lays off 346 | 20 systems reporting losses in '22

March 01, 2023

• Who spent $1M to disparage a hospital? | CEO exits hit 4-year high | Biden to GOP: Don't touch healthcare dollars | CHS to sell 2 hospitals | Eli Lilly cuts insulin prices 70%

February 28, 2023

• No relief for hospital margins | Mayo income down 50% | Undercover agents bought fake nursing degrees | Hospital CFO out after 5 days | 15 canceled hospital deals

February 27, 2023

• Walmart Health adds executives | UCSF nurses allege 'crisis' work conditions | COVID lab leak questions intensify | Presbyterian sees $370M loss | Nurse found guilty of murdering patient

February 26, 2023

• Amazon + One Medical: Health system execs weigh in | Hackensack Meridian’s CEO prefers 'Jersey straight talk' | 'Worst may be yet to come' for rural hospitals, Dartmouth CEO says | CommonSpirit’s 5 focuses for cash flow

February 26, 2023

• 38 exec moves | 29 specialties ranked by happiness | The salary Gen Z considers 'high' | Where Ozempic prescriptions are surging | 25 health systems on TikTok

February 25, 2023

• Nurses accuse Ascension of wage theft | 16 systems partnered with One Medical (and now Amazon) | Mass. hospital CEO to retire | Ind. hospitals risk 'insurmountable' financial hit after policy change

February 24, 2023

• 10 hospital service cuts | IU Health posts $715M loss | Norovirus hits hospital EDs | The right way to rightsize exec teams | Tech burned by nurse settles for $5.7M | Medicaid errors land people on 'most wanted' lists in Tenn.

February 23, 2023

• 20+ hospitals cutting jobs | The nurse hospitals won't hire | Don't touch noncompetes, hospitals tell FTC | 110 CMOs to know | CMS issues 500+ warnings for unclear hospital prices

February 22, 2023

• Healthcare's top billionaires | Amazon clinches $3.9B One Medical buy | CHS execs get raises | Texas hospital cuts nearly 50% of staff | 14 systems with strong finances

February 21, 2023

• Senators eye fixes for hospital staff shortages | Police shoot man in Ascension hospital | 10 CEO moves | COVID hospitalizations up in 21 states | Amazon hiring for 6 healthcare jobs

February 20, 2023

• Texas board charges 23 in degree sham | 20 days, 9 exec exits | The best US hospital, per ChatGPT | HCA hospitals make 5 exec changes | Cuban to partner with independent pharmacists

February 19, 2023

• 60+ best healthcare employers | 100 top community hospitals | 26 exec moves | CHS CEO's 4 financial priorities | The 'overpaid' healthcare CEOs

February 18, 2023

• The 20% Medicare cut coming for hospitals | Michael Dowling: 'We're going to come out of this winning' | Kaiser workers end 6-mo. strike | Spring may bring COVID uptick | Penn Med physicians seek union recognition

February 17, 2023

• Texas hospital locks down amid standoff | NY systems scrap merger | Adventist to cut executive jobs | Ill. hospital CEO dismissed | Fire closes Mass. hospital for months

February 16, 2023

• 10 'overpaid' healthcare CEOs | CommonSpirit posts $451M loss, aims to buy 5 hospitals | NC official goes after hospital CEO pay | Jefferson Health names CFO | States ranked by NPs per capita

February 15, 2023

• The glaring problem with hospital boards | CommonSpirit, AdventHealth end JV | 8 CEO moves | 'A waste of $10B': CIOs on CVS' Oak Street buy | UnityPoint to start charging for portal messaging

February 14, 2023

• Ascension questioned on nonprofit status | Kan. hospital lays off 85 | Sanford, Fairview delay deal | 11 cities hit hardest by inflation | What ChatGPT really means for hospitals

February 13, 2023

• The No. 1 problem keeping hospital CEOs up at night | 13 canceled hospital deals | Cigna rebrands | CEO exits Md. hospital group | CMS pauses No Surprises Act payment determinations

February 12, 2023

• 23 executive moves | 80 rural hospital CEOs to know | Big payers ranked by 2022 profit | 7 hospital security, violence prevention efforts | 5-star hospitals ranked by financial success

February 11, 2023

• Kaiser posts $4.5B loss | Tower, Penn Med scrap alliance | Fla. hospital back online | Dartmouth pilots 'Shark Tank for Nurses' | Do masks work? What researchers still don't know

February 10, 2023

• HHS roadmap out of PHE | Can US News regain med schools' favor? | 2 states look to nix noncompetes | 21 states respond to nurse degree scheme | Nurse: Mandatory staffing ratios are the wrong fight

February 09, 2023

• Tenet profit sinks | St. Luke's trims 2% of workforce | Travel nurses' pay, month by month | Henry Ford plans $2.5B campus | Viewpoint: Fund staffing efforts, not Super Bowl ads

February 08, 2023

• State of the Union: 10 healthcare notes | LifePoint buys 18 hospitals | What degree sham means for nurse shortages | CVS, Oak Street Health strike $10.6B deal | 9 hospitals seeking CEOs

February 07, 2023

• 8 systems with strong finances | CVS zeroes in on Oak Street Health | 10 exec resignations | 22,000 HCA workers start bargaining | What's behind Northwell's low nurse turnover?

February 06, 2023

• 17 hospitals cutting jobs | Capacity problems quietly persist | Fla. hospital still offline | Ind. hospitals face big fines for expensive care | More states act against nurses tied to degree sham

February 05, 2023

• Hospital expenses, state by state | 48 executive moves | 9 hospitals choosing Epic | 10 fast-growing C-suite jobs | Gen Z + healthcare: 10 notes | 50 hospitals with great orthopedic programs

February 04, 2023

• 772-bed Fla. hospital goes offline | CEOs take power back | The 'hard truth' about staff shortages | Tower Health to sell 17 urgent care centers | Sanford, Fairview CEOs answer 6 looming merger questions

February 03, 2023

• Average RN pay, state by state | Colo. hospital CEO resigns | Intermountain, Cleveland Clinic name COO, CFO | CMS floats universal quality measures | Fla. systems to combine | Spending up $18B on ordinary admin work

February 02, 2023

• 29 burned out specialties, ranked | 30 most admired healthcare companies | States discipline nurses tied to degree sham | 9 hospitals scale back services | 'Killnet' impairs hospital websites

February 01, 2023

• A new era of 'hospital purgatory' | Lawmakers look to void CMS vaccine rule | Ascension names president | Questions loom for hospitals amid nurse degree sham | 12 CEO moves | Steward president to exit for Humana

January 31, 2023

• PHE to end May 11 | Nurses asked to give up licenses amid degree sham | 11 med schools quit US News rankings | Russian hackers disrupt system websites | Why CEOs are taking pay cuts

January 30, 2023

• Hospitals' worst year since COVID | Ill. hospital closes | HCA hospitals make 10 exec changes | Duke exits US News rankings | 37% of nurses with fake degrees passed NCLEX

January 29, 2023

• 32 executive moves | CMS 1-star hospitals, ranked by profitability | HCA's 'winning plays' for 2023 | 20 best online MSN programs, per US News | 32 recent hospital sales

January 28, 2023

• NY officials fight for vaccine rule | 10 days, 8 exec exits | Cigna sues CVS over leader's departure | 26 Del. nurses tied to fake degree scheme | Why Calif. hospitals spend most on contract labor

January 27, 2023

• More med schools quit US News ranking | OU Health to cut 100 jobs | HCA posts $5.6B profit for '22 | States eye prior authorization changes | Nurses face probes over phony degree scheme

January 26, 2023

• Feds bust phony nurse ring | Tenet hospital CEO, CNO out after months | Ascension Texas makes job cuts | Cleveland Clinic rarely bills for MyChart | Sanford, Fairview asked to slow deal

January 25, 2023

• Top med schools waive US News rank | Boston Med CEO to lead Mass. HHS | 7 CEO moves | BCBS pushes for site-neutral payments | Tufts to cut 240 jobs | 15 best, worst states for retirement

January 24, 2023

• 20 systems that spend most on contract labor | Sloan Kettering lays off 337 | Amazon launches Prime for prescriptions | Stanford Med School quits US News ranking | How to save rural hospitals? 33 leaders answer

January 23, 2023

• Woman shoots, kills husband in Fla. hospital | Fight grows over NY hospital vaccine rule | Dartmouth freezes hiring | Hospitals raise nurse pay - why now? | More questions than answers on noncompetes

January 22, 2023

• 17 layoffs at hospitals | 38 exec moves | Systems reshape exec teams | Amazon hiring for 6 healthcare jobs | 47% of physicians are 55+

January 21, 2023

• Calif. hospital CEO, CFO resign | UPMC to close hospital | Colo. governor, hospitals spar | FTC wants Shkreli held in contempt | BCBS Minn. hiring 300

January 20, 2023

• Hospitals cut 231 more jobs in 3 states | Lawmakers go after UPMC | 10 largest independent hospitals | Dollar General tests care delivery | 'Magical thinking' and healthcare

January 19, 2023

• Tenet makes 9 exec changes | Hospital CEO turnover hits a low | The largest physician employer in America | Michael Dowling on an 'unthinkable priority' | Hospital meltdown persists in Calif.

January 18, 2023

• Cleveland Clinic expects $200M loss | Judge tosses NY vaccine rule | 13 CEO moves | Providence nurses to rally over paid leave | Harvard Med School quits US News rankings

January 17, 2023

• 50 best hospitals, per Healthgrades | Integris cuts 140 jobs in patient care | 13 hospitals cutting jobs | Mo. hospital CEO is out | Optum eyes big value-based care boost

January 15, 2023

• 100 largest hospitals, systems in US | 36 exec moves | 11 most-secure healthcare jobs | 5 fastest-growing physician specialties | Medicare Advantage: 50 things to know | 10 Shkreli awardees for bad behavior

January 14, 2023

• Trinity leans into virtual nurses | MyChart messages dwindle | 6 CEO exits | OSU Wexner names CEO | XBB.1.5 up to 43% of cases | No big 'tripledemic' effect on costs, UnitedHealth says

January 13, 2023

• Jefferson to trim exec jobs | ProMedica to lay off 262 | Ascension hospital to halt surgeries | 14 top-paid healthcare jobs | UnitedHealth posts $4.9B Q4 profit | 10 systems with strong finances

January 12, 2023

• NYC nurse strike ends: 8 things to know | 20 hospitals spend most on contract labor | PHE extended for 12th time | Tenet to sell Calif. hospital | Cuban's pharmacy teams up with 3rd PBM

January 11, 2023

• 56 best healthcare jobs | Las Vegas hospital to lay off 970 | 10 CEO moves | UChicago closes on 4 AdventHealth hospitals | Vanderbilt drops MA plans | What XBB.1.5 could spell for hospital capacity

January 10, 2023

• Healthcare at its worst: 10 Shkreli awardees | 8 CEO exits in 8 days | Bosses pushed us to strike, NYC nurses say | Scientists at odds over COVID names | Nursing again the most trusted profession

January 09, 2023

• 7,000 NYC nurses start strike | HCA hospitals make a dozen executive changes | Rite Aid CEO exits abruptly | Carbon Health lays off 200+ | Tripledemic, post-holidays: Where things stand | Pockets of US with most, least population momentum

January 08, 2023

• 21 systems with smallest CEO:worker pay gaps | 32 executive moves | 220 hospitals at immediate risk of closure | 135 new nursing programs | 10 states with largest drops to travel RN pay

January 07, 2023

• NYC hospitals move patients as strike nears | 52 hospital layoffs | Ascension Texas, BCBS face split | Mass. hospitals nix merger | 100 hospitals with lowest margins | Ill. hospital CEO steps down

January 06, 2023

• HCA hospital execs abruptly resign | VillageMD closes Summit Health deal | Humana lays off 1,100+ | 5 NYC hospitals without agreement as strike looms | Northwestern, Ascension Saint Thomas tap CEOs

January 05, 2023

• More NYC hospitals in tentative deals to avoid strike | Michael Dowling + the great return to normalcy | CommonSpirit sued over ransomware attack | 11 exec resignations + service cuts | Pa. system rescinds $25 staff gifts

January 04, 2023

• Hospital margins see 11th-hour improvement | Within days, hospital access crumbles in Calif. | 5 days, 5 CEO exits | Top pay by region for NPs, PAs | Healthcare ransomware attacks doubled in 5 years

January 03, 2023

• Strike set at NYC hospitals | Franciscan closes ER after court fight | NY system fires CEO | Geisinger worker shot, killed outside hospital | HCA sells 3 hospitals

January 02, 2023

• Best hospitals to work for, by state | 631 hospitals at risk of closure | Worst month for layoffs is here | 3 letters will make/break system growth in 2023 | 36 counties with most, least population momentum

December 30, 2022

• 20 CEO + CFO changes of note | Why big systems made 'Epic' changes | Hospitals' ivory tower problem | 26 patient safety experts to know | Top-paid PA, NP specialties | 63 health system execs' investment strategies

December 29, 2022

• 5 big-ticket questions for hospitals | 25 hospital closures | Franciscan says keeping ER open, per court order, is unsafe | 17 'overpaid' healthcare CEOs | China's COVID wave stirs worry of new variant

December 28, 2022

• Wellstar eyes more hospitals 8 weeks after closing one | Calif. hospital to close | 97 hospitals with CEO turnover | MetroHealth fills new executive role | 50 drugs with biggest price cuts via Mark Cuban's pharmacy

December 27, 2022

• Nurses OK strike at 12 NYC hospitals | Cap CEO pay at $800,000, physician says | 13 hospitals cutting jobs | Flu admissions now v. then | Judge intervenes in Ind. hospital closure

December 26, 2022

• Nurses confront hospital president | 23 exec moves | Look alive as hospitals close, lawmakers urge HHS | 104 healthcare leaders under 40 | UPMC nurses OK contract with room for 30% raises

December 22, 2022

• MetroHealth exec to exit | 1:53 nurse-patient ratio claim spurs hospital probe | Providence hospital to restructure some physicians | Midwest systems brace for severe storm | Skepticism starts at top in Fla. hospital

December 21, 2022

• 9 CEO moves | States push for PHE's end | HHS unlocks Tamiflu | Hospitals brace for post-holiday volumes | Hospital owners made publicly searchable | Calif. system faces split from 3 big insurers

December 20, 2022

• $1.7 trillion omnibus bill: 8 healthcare takeaways | 55 CEO resignations | 'Immunity debt' debate persists | UPMC to raise nurse pay 30% in tentative deal | Wash. hospitals scale back services

December 19, 2022

• 33 hospitals with most ER visits | Texas hospital expansion faces backlash | COVID admissions up in 37 states | 15 hospitals seeking CEOs, CFOs | Can health systems compete with CVS, Walgreens?

December 18, 2022

• 65 hospital, payer exec moves | Travel nurse pay vs. average pay | Big raises avert strikes | 49% of NY hospitals cut services | 6 systems hit with credit downgrades

December 17, 2022

• When healthcare loses the most | Mass General Brigham margin dips to -2.5% | Flu season may peak early | Stanford to raise workers' pay by 15% in tentative deal | UVA Health faces class-action lawsuit

December 16, 2022

• 11 canceled hospital deals | Mayo billing draws scrutiny | Fired MetroHealth CEO alleges $20M in lost opportunity | Ky. hospital to lay off 112 | 14 CEO exits | BCBS Mass. adds health equity to contracts

December 15, 2022

• Surge of CEO exits may signal more to come | 10 financially strong systems | Vanderbilt suspends chief of staff | 'Historic' raises avert Minn. nurse strike | NJ systems to merge | 28 hospitals that chose Epic in 2022

December 14, 2022

• 6 CEO moves | Inmate shot, killed in Ascension hospital | Sutter nurses plan 9-day strike | Flu activity, state by state | Prisma loses digital chief | 12 cities hit hardest by inflation

December 13, 2022

• Ascension exec to join Jefferson | HHS points to flexibilities for flu, RSV | Walmart heir's med school stacks board talent | A physician helped smoke out FTX | Amoxicillin shortage worsens

December 12, 2022

• 12 hospitals cutting jobs | Emory nurses out after TikTok of patient 'icks' | 23 best-managed healthcare cos. | Kan. system scraps strategy chief | 20.5% wage hike on table in tentative Borgess-Ascension deal

December 11, 2022

• 29 executive moves | Top-paid PA, NP specialties | 40 donors gifted $1.7B to hospitals | Most competitive commercial insurance markets | Hospitals passing data to Twitter, Facebook: 5 notes | 8 strikes that (almost) were

December 10, 2022

• CommonSpirit's plan to back 44,000 nurses | Man indicted in Methodist Dallas shooting | Hospitals haven't been this full since omicron peak | Cedars-Sinai workers to strike | Gun stockpile costs hospital $63K

December 09, 2022

• Hospitals may be unknowingly sharing data with Elon Musk | Time to end PHE: Bloomberg | U of Mich. Health to acquire 6 hospitals | Execs grapple with CMS' rural hospital designation | Colo. hospital narrowly makes payroll after plea

December 08, 2022

• Mayo defends CEO raises | States lose another fight vs. CMS vaccine rule | MetroHealth board member resigns | Ill. system cuts, reorgs 76 jobs | Mark Cuban Cost Plus partners with 2nd PBM | Travel nurse pay, state by state

December 07, 2022

• MyChart fees on unstable ground | Leapfrog's 115 top hospitals | 11 CEO moves | Ascension posts $118M loss | CMS pitches prior authorization rule | 'Historic' raises avert nurse strike in Minn.

December 06, 2022

• Cost cutting the Michael Dowling way | 50 states ranked by health | JPMorgan wants return of 60-min. doctor visits | Mercy's gig model for nurses halved agency spend | Advocate Health leadership: 25 moves at the new system

December 05, 2022

• A sign CMS' vaccine mandate is no sure thing | Flu activity by state | MetroHealth welcomes CEO | 8 executive resignations | COVID brought little change to HCA, Tenet and CHS' margins | Another hospital shortage: Cribs

December 04, 2022

• 48 exec moves, service cuts + EHR swaps | Hospitals' 8 asks of Congress | Mich. system cuts jobs | 100+ healthcare voices on leadership + strategy | Epic's last 30 days

December 03, 2022

• UH suspends staff tied to capitol attack | Flu hospitalizations nearly double in a week | Blue Shield of Calif. to lay off 373 | Nurses intensify pushback on HCA hospital sales | A missing group of workers

December 02, 2022

• Atrium, Advocate Aurora complete merger | 15,000 Minn. nurses set 20-day strike | Trinity posts $550M quarterly loss | 6 COO moves | Where travel nurse pay is down most

December 01, 2022

• Fired MetroHealth CEO paid himself for SDOH work | 2 years and 2x as many at-risk hospitals in Texas | HCA names CFO of 11 Fla. hospitals | Patient dies after catching fire in Tenn. hospital | Mount Sinai reports $241M loss

November 30, 2022

• More pain, no gain for hospital margins | Ins + outs of fees for MyChart messages | Cleveland Clinic losses swell to $1.5B | Billings Clinic CFO to exit | The 15 best, worst states for jobs

November 29, 2022

• Fired CEO sues MetroHealth | 6 CEO moves | Where Gen Z hires are flocking | Probe GPOs, groups urge FTC | When layoffs hit 'quickly and less thoughtfully' | UnitedHealth expects $360B revenue in 2023

November 28, 2022

• Fla. hospital CEO killed in murder-suicide | RSV could be at peak, Fauci says | More systems charge for MyChart messages | The 'great remote work mismatch' | 5 hospitals seeking CEOs

November 27, 2022

• 14 executive moves | 5 hospitals cut services | 180+ rural hospital closures | NP fined $20K for calling herself 'doctor' | Hospital expenses per inpatient day | What Gen Z, millennial nurses want

November 26, 2022

• Mark Cuban in talks with hospitals to solve drug shortages | NC system names CEO | UPMC operating income falls | 6 hospitals raising workers' pay | Why Epic won't invest in other companies

November 25, 2022

• Fla. hospital CEO resigns after arrest | Thanksgiving may accelerate 'tripledemic' | Ascension hospital down to final weeks | Labor expenses continue to climb | UnitedHealthcare, Providence reach deal

November 23, 2022

• Fired MetroHealth CEO says board retaliated | SSM posts $484M loss | Monkeypox gets new name | 7 CEO moves | Hospital CEO exits slow | Anthem backlash on TikTok grows louder

November 22, 2022

• MetroHealth fires CEO over bonuses | Providence closes 27 retail clinics | Intermountain posts $2.2B net income | Pharma giants ditch Twitter | Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs nears 1k generics

November 21, 2022

• States ask CMS to scrap vaccine rule | Walmart loses top health exec | Risks of boomerang CEOs | H3N2: 3 notes on dominant flu strain | DOJ to appeal ruling on UnitedHealth-Change deal

November 20, 2022

• 12 hospitals cutting jobs | 26 exec moves | 183 rural hospital closures | 60 healthcare leaders' X factor for innovative teams | 36 hospitals that aced or failed patient safety: Leapfrog

November 19, 2022

• Providence urged to act after patient death in ER | Texas investigates Epic | Lifespan names CEO | Calif. NPs may soon practice sans physician oversight | Amedisys CEO out

November 18, 2022

• Intermountain names CEO | Kaiser's 22.5% raises avert nurse strike | Biden unclear on PHE for RSV | Anthem scraps $40K bill after patient's TikTok | Ascension launches equity foundation

November 17, 2022

• Is Epic's dominance good for healthcare? | Layoffs hit Memorial Sloan Kettering | Children's hospitals: RSV surge is nat'l emergency | 15 CEO exits | Mark Cuban's next healthcare goals | Advocate Aurora, CommonSpirit post losses

November 16, 2022

• 36 'F' and straight-'A' hospitals: Leapfrog | Payer-provider fights get messier | 6 CEO moves | Sanford-Fairview merger back on | Children's National physicians call for better working conditions

November 15, 2022

• Providence losses swell to $1.1B in 2022 | Amazon Clinic debuts | 'Immunity debt' not behind RSV surge: nurses | Atrium, Advocate Aurora deal clears Ill. | Wellstar had buyer interest in AMC before closure, Atlanta mayor says

November 14, 2022

• Hospitals' dwindling days cash on hand | Where are early 20-something workers? | Calif. hospitals use tents for flu | Medical supply disruptions like 'an old Western movie bar fight' | Phony free insulin tweets cost Eli Lilly billions

November 13, 2022

• 33 exec moves | 19 hospital closures, bankruptcies | 27 health systems preferred 2:1 over competitors | 66 hospitals with 'meritorious' surgical outcomes | 14 states see 'very high' flu activity

November 12, 2022

• HHS to renew COVID PHE through April | 21,000 Kaiser nurses to strike | Northwell hires Michelin-star chefs | Ill. system CEO to retire | How Cleveland Clinic's chief caregiver officer is tackling engagement

November 11, 2022

• Stay or go? Physicians weigh Twitter use | Calif. hospital CEO asks Newsom for funds | 15 cities hardest hit by inflation | DeSantis taps Broward CEO for transition | Walgreens bets on healthcare runs like errand runs

November 10, 2022

• 10 systems with strong finances | Most CommonSpirit EHRs back online | Insurers ranked by Q3 profits | Advocate Aurora to close clinic | FTC to ramp up challenges | Fla. hospitals brace for storm

November 09, 2022

• Ohio hospital to close Fri. | 7 CEO moves | SD to expand Medicaid | Nurse who called 911 on ER speaks out | NC hospital's Medicare contract again at risk | ED boarding at 'crisis point,’ clinicians tell Biden

November 08, 2022

• Calif. hospital files for bankruptcy | Cross-market systems stir concern | Jefferson exec to depart for Highmark | Why more physicians are unionizing | ProMedica to exit SNF joint venture

November 07, 2022

• VillageMD buys Summit for $9B | Pa. orders hospital to close ER | 6 CEO, CFO resignations | Children's hospitals plead for federal support | Miss. hospital lays off staff

November 06, 2022

• 28 executive moves | 22 stats on contract labor costs | RN pay in 50 states adjusted by cost of living | Flu continues to ramp up: 7 notes | Where 82 hospital CEOs exited

November 05, 2022

• Kaiser sees $1.5B loss in Q3 | Mass General Brigham: Respect staff or seek care elsewhere | Payer relationships worsening, hospitals say | 'Zero candidates interviewing' at hospital where nurse called 911, president says

November 04, 2022

• Ind. hospital to close | VCU Health CEO resigns | 631 hospitals at risk of closure by state | Past 'tripledemic': Virus surges explained sans buzzwords | MercyOne largely recovers from ransomware

November 03, 2022

• 'Difficult decisions' loom for hospitals | CommonSpirit names CIO | Big insurer profits recall 'the house always wins' | Execs called to resign at hospital where nurse called 911 | Ochsner makes 8 leadership changes

November 02, 2022

• CMS' 4 final payment rules: 15 takeaways | Why rebrand a health system now? | Fox Chase names CEO | CVS chalks up Q3 loss to $5B opioid settlement | Ariz. hospital staff held hostage by patients

November 01, 2022

• 2,273 hospitals dinged for readmissions | VCU Health to unseat CEO | RSV, flu can form hybrid virus | 25 best places to retire, per US News | JPMorgan creates healthcare venture group

October 31, 2022

• Health systems zero in on C-suites | Atlanta hospital closes at midnight | Flu hospitalizations at 13-year high | FDA confirms amoxicillin shortage | Calif. physicians reach deal to avert strike

October 30, 2022

• 10 hospitals cutting jobs | 26 exec moves | Flu + COVID: 17 notes | 7 Qs with Corewell's CEO | The best states for nurses, physicians | 14 fastest-growing healthcare companies

October 29, 2022

• Hospital finances set for worst year in decades | ProMedica CEO to retire | Biden appoints Klasko to board | Nurses want conditions in HCA sale | Calif. physicians set strike dates | NYC hospitals to post salary ranges

October 28, 2022

• NC system cuts 200 jobs | Hospitals see 300% rise in RSV | 14 healthcare companies on a tear | Calif. hospital fires CEO | CHS aims to halve contract labor spend

October 27, 2022

• CHS sees $42M net loss in Q3 | Bozeman CEO out | Man gets 18 years for stalking physicians | Duke Health CEO to depart | Cleveland Clinic goes global with quality consulting

October 26, 2022

• HCA reorganizes with 12 exec changes | CEOs exit at younger ages | 'Rogue nurse' charged with murder of patients at Atrium hospital | BQ.1: 6 updates | Walmart Health expands Fla. footprint

October 25, 2022

• Calif. hospitals reshape exec teams | Methodist Dallas unaware of shooting suspect's criminal past | Vt. hospital CEO out after no-confidence vote | Nurses escorted out of Ascension hospital | Some CHI Memorial systems restored after ransomware attack

October 24, 2022

• 2 employees shot, killed in Dallas hospital | RSV raises 'tripledemic' risk | Healthcare lost 333,942 providers in 2021 | Vt. hospital CEO loses staff confidence | Helium shortage complicates MRIs

October 21, 2022

• HCA, Tenet profits fall: 11 notes | $110 a dose: Pfizer drafts COVID shot prices | CMS unveils 340B payment plan | UW Med nurses get 'historic' raises | COVID hospitalizations climb in NY

October 20, 2022

• 'Perfect storm' hits children's hospitals | Sanford cuts admin jobs | Ohio system loses execs | Physicians become harder to replace | How EHR install costs add up | HCA Houston taps hospital CEO

October 19, 2022

• Renown replaces fired CEO | Saint Luke's closes microhospitals | Bozeman Health chair resigns after no-confidence vote | 10 CEO moves | No rating fallout for CommonSpirit: Fitch

October 18, 2022

• The rise + fall of COVID billionaires | Grady sees 30% more patients after Wellstar ER closes | Apple to take up health insurance | 124 systems with best, worst price transparency scores | HCA names Fla. hospital CEO

October 17, 2022

• Why are big systems switching to Epic? | Ransomware missed some CommonSpirit sites | For insurers, addition by COVID subtraction | 5 notes on emerging BQ.1 variant | Northwestern names 2 presidents

October 14, 2022

• COVID emergency renewed amid mixed signals | Wellstar urged to drop noncompetes | ER director out after nurse calls 911 | Temple workers OK strike | Parkview CEO to retire | Where inflation has grown most, least

October 13, 2022

• CommonSpirit confirms ransomware hit | Tenet's former CEO dies at 75 | University Hospitals cuts 443 admin jobs | Bezos family gifts $710M to Fred Hutch | Patriots owner gifts $50M to Mass General

October 12, 2022

• At CommonSpirit, big IT problems and little info | Nurse calls 911 on her own crowded ER | Pa. hospital closure halted | 4 CEO moves | Calif. physicians OK strike | There's 'quick quitting,' too

October 11, 2022

• Beaumont-Spectrum combo gets a name | Walmart moves into clinical trials | 25% of clinicians want out of healthcare: Bain | Mayo receives $100M gift | Sentara makes 4 leadership changes

October 10, 2022

• CommonSpirit IT outages persist | CFO exits Calif. system | Vanderbilt halts gender surgeries for minors | 7 Qs with Mass General Brigham's CEO | Signs of winter COVID surge mount

October 07, 2022

• 10 hospitals laying off staff | Insurers steer members to Mark Cuban's pharmacy | CommonSpirit hospitals book patients by phone amid breach | Tufts exec named Care New England CEO | The 'most loved' workplaces in healthcare

October 06, 2022

• CommonSpirit EHR problems: The latest | Mayo gives 6% raises | Kaiser digital chief heads to Target | Pa. hospital enters bankruptcy | Why Emory moved from Oracle to Epic | 17 hospitals curbing care | Man assaulted infants, staff at Texas hospital: Police

October 05, 2022

• Ascension to close Ind. hospital | Epic makes 'significant donation' to UW Health | OU Health funds tied to gender care | 5 CEO moves | NewYork-Presbyterian names COO | CommonSpirit hospitals suffer IT problem | Summa Health reshuffles execs

October 04, 2022

• Pipeline files for bankruptcy | Trinity sees $1.4B annual loss | Supreme Court rejects challenge to CMS' vaccine rule | DOJ urged to probe threats against children's hospitals | Where travel nurse pay is down most | Allina workers begin strike

October 03, 2022

• Tenet exec chair resigns | Optum, Change complete $7.8B merger | Hospitals likely to end '22 in the red | MUSC employee dies in hospital | White House hosts hospital CEOs on 'twindemic' strategies | UTMB starts search for president | Fla. system names CEO

September 30, 2022

• SC hospitals brace for Ian | Iowa hospital closes | Mich. system to cut hundreds of jobs | Wellstar to close Atlanta ED in Oct. | Providence CEO questioned on billing | Tenet, UnitedHealth, DaVita must face no-poach claims

September 29, 2022

• Hospitals in Hurricane Ian: 4 updates | 1 killed in Ark. hospital shooting | Intermountain to tweak name | HCA hospitals make 16 exec changes | Hundreds of hospitals at risk of hurricane damage | Sutter workers strike | Pa. hospital closure challenged

September 28, 2022

• 6 CEO moves | Another strike looms for Minn. hospitals | Mark Cuban partners with PBM | Flu hits Houston Methodist hard, early | Yale New Haven eyes new hospitals despite job cuts | 15 best cities for the 'sandwich generation'

September 27, 2022

• Fla. hospitals get PHE, evacuate for Hurricane Ian | Pa. hospital to lay off 334 | What Bob Riney faces as Henry Ford's new CEO | Mask rollbacks concern physicians | Another 'Striketober'? | Former Tenet exec joins Walmart

September 26, 2022

• Hospitals cut jobs, services | CDC drops universal masking guideline | 10 systems with strong finances | Atlanta Medical Center redevelopment halted | 18 specialties ranked by pay | Hybrid work fuels 'productivity paranoia' | HCA hiring hospital CFOs

September 23, 2022

• MetroHealth names CEO | Yale New Haven cuts 155 jobs | Emory swaps Cerner for Epic | Providence plans $712M expansion | What General Catalyst seeks in hospitals | Ascension nurses to unionize in Texas | Swedish earmarks $125M for raises

September 22, 2022

• Fla. hospital closes | Vanderbilt faces AG probe | Hospital CEO resignations jump | Northwell tops $1B in fundraising | 13 COO moves | Crozer cuts services at hospitals | MyMichigan names CEO | UMass, Mass General to train 1,000+ for healthcare jobs

September 21, 2022

• Ascension sees $1.8B annual loss | 10 CEO moves | Biden edits pandemic comments | Calif. hospital ups security after nurse stabbing | HCA opens NC hospital | 'Already a 3-headed dragon': Medical groups on UnitedHealth-Change | CIOs on the war for IT pros

September 20, 2022

• 34 hospitals most similar to America's top 10 | Ohio hospital to lay off 978 | Judge clears UnitedHealth-Change deal | UCSF physicians OK strike | Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips exits Providence | Calif. hospital worker stabbed: Police

September 19, 2022

• 'The pandemic is over,' Biden says | Centura trims 1% of workforce | Cooper plans $2B expansion | NC hospital group to lawmakers: Pass Medicaid expansion | Ore. system lifts staff vaccine rules | Strike on table at Kaleida

September 16, 2022

• Hospitals' most financially difficult year | Ala. hospital CEO resigns | NY hospital cuts jobs, restructures execs | Nurse guilty in $100M scheme | Where inflation has grown most, least | Respiratory illnesses burden children's hospitals

September 15, 2022

• Cleveland hospital to end inpatient care | HHS set for 11th renewal of COVID PHE | 16 CEO moves | Grady gets $130M shot in arm | Tenet opens SC hospital | 20 'smartest' hospitals | No Surprises Act could surge ER visits | Clinic chain files for bankruptcy

September 14, 2022

• Where travel nurse pay is up, down | Ochsner CEO heads to Sutter | Ill. delays Atrium, Advocate Aurora merger | UChicago Med grows surburban footprint in AdventHealth deal | Hospitals push for early flu shots | Trinity Health of New England names CEO

September 13, 2022

• Bid would close NJ hospital | Grady to get lifeline as area hospital winds down | Vanderbilt CEO joins CVS board | 10 states with largest brain drains, gains | 21 best BSN programs, per US News | NPs: Fastest-growing job in next decade

September 12, 2022

• UTMB releases records on leader's abrupt exit | 15,000 nurses walk off jobs in Minn. | Idaho hospital ousts CEO | 15 cities ranked by wait times for physician appt. | Man dies after fall from Ill. hospital | UW Health averts strike

September 09, 2022

• Ohio, Calif. hospitals lay off staff | Henry Ford names CEO | Grady gets $11M before area hospital closes | CHS wins suit over 'as-is' sale | Froedtert ups the ante on staff vaccines | CEO to exit largest physician group in Ill.

September 08, 2022

• Blackout hits major Calif. hospital | NC hospital CEO resigns | 9 CEO moves | 16 Minn. hospitals brace for strike | Judge gives partial win to ACA opponents | Guard shot at Kaiser hospital | Mark Cuban nears 1M pharmacy customers

September 07, 2022

• Travel nurses aren't coming back | 9 best systems to work for: Fortune | UnitedHealth, Walmart team up | Children's National CEO to retire | 15 best, worst cities to retire | W.Va. systems merge | 14 systems with strong finances

September 06, 2022

• Atlanta hospital closure draws scrutiny | CVS' $8B Signify buy: 6 details | U of Mich. nurses OK strike | Midterms + 'increasingly fact-free' healthcare | FTC probe could slow Amazon, One Medical deal | Texas, Calif. hospitals name CEOs

September 02, 2022

• 15,000 Minn. nurses plan strike | Iowa hospital to close | Emory names interim CEO | The only PX metric Cleveland Clinic tracks | Layoffs hit Miss. hospital | Children's hospitals face harassment campaigns | Systems vie for talent with perks beyond pay

September 01, 2022

• Wellstar to close hospital | Health systems eliminate execs as costs rise | The 'quiet firing' trend | CHS sued over mass layoff | Brigham and Women's names quality chief | 15 programs investing in 'talent pipelines'

August 31, 2022

• 17 hospitals cut services | FDA authorizes omicron boosters | 3 Billings Clinic execs resign | 'Quiet quitting' at hospitals | 14 CEO moves | 1st US monkeypox death confirmed: 5 updates | Miss. hospitals respond to water crisis

August 30, 2022

• Cleveland Clinic reports $1B loss | Monkeypox death suspected at Texas hospital | 15 CEO resignations | Epic eyes 'nationwide health IT infrastructure' | Centene, Tenet spar over contract | Ascension settles wage suit for $19.7M | 15 women on the move

August 29, 2022

• Billings Clinic CEO resigns | 10 systems lay off staff | Children's National threatened over transgender care | CHS closes Fla. hospital ED | Why such high CEO pay at Clover, Oscar + Bright Health? | UPMC, Allegheny Health see discharge delays

August 26, 2022

• 'Call it resignation, but nobody buys that' | Kaiser faces probe amid strike | Top health system employers by state | CHS faces fraud suit | Another idea for quiet quitters: Just quit | 6 hospitals curb care | What student debt relief means to clinicians

August 25, 2022

• The end of Amazon Care | Texas system won't hand over records on ex-president | UPMC operating income falls 86% in 6 mos. | Mercy mourns 1st CEO | Trustees called to quit Calif. hospital board | UChicago Med names CXO | EMTALA covers abortion in Idaho ERs

August 24, 2022

• Intermountain sees $2.7B net income | 16 CEO moves | Ky. nurse faces murder charges after patient death | NY system to close physician practices | Abortions not covered by EMTALA in Texas hospitals: judge | 7 travel nurse pay trends

August 23, 2022

• Head of Texas system abruptly resigns | Advocate Aurora sees $600M loss in 6 mos. | CHS to close Fla. hospital | Providence exec exits | 7 hospital M&A deals | Amazon reportedly bids for Signify | States ranked by life expectancy

August 22, 2022

• Intermountain names interim CEO | Monkeypox on surfaces: 5 updates | Healthcare pros speak out against Amazon Care | 29 physician specialties ranked by pay | No Surprises Act final rule: 3 takeaways | NC hospital to close ED

August 19, 2022

• DOJ backs Boston Children's | US down to last mos. of free COVID shots, tests | CEO, CFO exit Mo. hospital | A case to keep the name 'monkeypox' | HCA, AdventHealth + Novant square off for beds | 50% of execs eye layoffs as healthcare aims to rehire

August 18, 2022

• 10 CEO moves | Kaiser plans $1.7B expansion | Retirement gaps stir second thoughts | Monkeypox cases up 20% in 1 week | Top HCA exec to depart | Nurses challenge U of Mich. workloads | Pharma giants slam Medicare price negotiation

August 17, 2022

• Democrats' $739B bill is now law: 7 healthcare notes | Violent threats, harassing emails flood Boston Children's | HCA makes 21 exec changes | 10 hospitals with most brand loyalty | Nurses urge probe of Calif. hospital | Mount Sinai spinoff lays off 250

August 16, 2022

• Providence posts $934M loss | 15,000 Minn. nurses OK strike | 9 hospital layoffs | Shooting locks down Memphis hospital | 'Paxlovid mouth' | UChicago Medicine names data chief | Philips CEO out after recall

August 15, 2022

• 2,000+ Kaiser workers to strike today | WHO to rename monkeypox | Ariz. system CEO resigns | CDC to regain control of hospital COVID data | Ore. system tries to claw back $2M in wages | 91 physician pay benchmarks | Where inflation has grown most, least

August 12, 2022

• Intermountain CEO to step down | General Catalyst quietly stacks healthcare talent | 15,000 Minn. nurses weigh strike | Overrun Harborview diverts patients | Cardinal CEO resigns | HCA could face merged class action | Signify to lay off 489

August 11, 2022

• Tenet, Steward feud post-deal | Payroll system rankles Providence | CVS said to have bid for One Medical weeks before Amazon | 6 hospitals end inpatient care | Fla. system seeks partner | What to consider when hiring teens

August 10, 2022

• Where travel nurse pay is up most | Adventist lays off staff | Hospitals' high tolerance for errors | 7 CEO moves | TikTok owner gets into hospital business | Monkeypox cases, state by state | Mount Sinai starts vaccine co.

August 09, 2022

• 'Being abused is not part of the job' | 39 guns found stashed in NJ hospital | When CEOs abruptly 'step down' | AdventHealth unveils plan for theme park site | Tenet Calif. hospital names CEO | COVID hospitalizations reverse course

August 08, 2022

• Kaiser posts $1.3B loss | AdventHealth sued over shooter drill | 7 healthcare notes out of Democrats' massive $739B bill | CVS to bid for Signify Health | Sutter workers claim pay missing | Assume wider spread of monkeypox: Gottlieb

August 05, 2022

• Hospitals' tepid job gains | UF Shands CEO is out | 13 hospital service cuts | Calif. hospital preps for 673 layoffs | A new PHE: Airborne risk of monkeypox, knowns + unknowns | Union takes on Stanford Health | 4 systems move to Epic

August 04, 2022

• Hospital skeptics vie for board seats | 7 CEO moves | BCBS accuses hospital execs of defamation | Health systems recoup staff pay | HCA, Tenet, CHS and UHS: Q2 results | Jefferson grows nurse SEAL team | Hospitals that treat most Black patients paid less

August 03, 2022

• 10 layoffs at hospitals | Death of Prisma tech ruled homicide | Leaders of 4 Minn. systems get no-confidence vote | Civica launches 1st drug | Omicron's staying power | System takes issue with nurses' hair | Northwell names CIO | Ochsner gains 7 hospitals

August 02, 2022

• CMS' final inpatient payment rule: 6 takeaways | Wright Lassiter starts as CommonSpirit CEO | Nurses had to pick pay cuts or job loss: lawsuit | Oracle begins layoffs | Hospital margins linger in red | Striking Dignity workers reach 4-year deal

August 01, 2022

• 5 best, worst states for healthcare | Assault of nurse spurs security at Duke | Threats to health officials OK, say 25% of Americans | Hospital holds out in McKinney Fire | Mo. nursing school closes | DOJ v. UnitedHealth, Change: 8 notes on day 1 of trial

July 29, 2022

• 18 exec resignations | Nurse side gigs: An exit path from hospitals? | HCA hit with SEC complaint, antitrust suit | CMS drops 3 final payment rules | PA pay, by specialty | Kaleida makes 6 leadership changes | Feds: Hospital used for $25M scam

July 28, 2022

• Hospitals push for PHE into 2023 | CEO, COO abruptly quit at Calif. hospital | 192 new 1-star hospitals | CHS posts $326M loss | Trinity plans layoffs | 60-year first in healthcare spend | Ore. hospital board faces recall after COO firing

July 27, 2022

• All 429 of CMS' new 5-starred hospitals | Pa. hospital to close | 6 CEO moves | Mayo nurses vote to oust union | Houston Methodist faces $25M defamation suit | 'A difficult business': CIOs on Amazon-One Medical | US needs $7B for monkeypox, advisers say

July 26, 2022

• US News: 20 best hospitals + No. 1 by state | OR closures persist | UHS profit dips 50% | Former CEO of Texas system charged in $1B fraud crackdown | Models vague for BA.5 effect on hospitalizations | 3M spins off healthcare business

July 25, 2022

• How hospitals 'rob Peter to pay Paul' | Vanderbilt plans $500M expansion | Teladoc hires Providence exec | Layoffs hit labs | Ala. hospital CEO exits | Denver Health mulls service cuts | Hackensack Meridian ends onsite child care

July 22, 2022

• HCA, Tenet profits sink | 62 hospital CEO exits in 6 mos. | UnityPoint hospital CEO abruptly departs | 'Nobody wants to work anymore' | Nurses urge CDC to tighten COVID restrictions | 20 best midsized cities to live

July 21, 2022

• Amazon strikes $3.9B deal for One Medical | 10 health systems with strong finances | Investigation launched after 2 patients go missing from Ill. hospital | Biden tests positive for COVID | 11 CEO resignations | 52 chief experience officers to know

July 20, 2022

• 9 CEO moves | Providence trims exec team as part of new model | 5 specialties that drive most revenue to hospitals | Employee with gun arrested at Texas hospital | LifePoint pays back wages for overtime violations | ProMedica patients' info exposed

July 19, 2022

• Short-staffed hospitals curb care | SSM ups security after stabbing | Dignity workers strike | 5 specialties with highest starting pay | Pa. system gets 3rd CEO this year | 13 best healthcare cos. for millennials

July 18, 2022

• CMS floats outpatient pay rule: 5 takeaways | Kan. hospital fires CEO | 8 hospital layoffs | HHS renews public health emergency | 13 women making moves in healthcare | UPMC employees want leaders to take firm stance on abortion

July 15, 2022

• 13 hospitals cutting services | UnitedHealth profit tops $5B | Nurse shortage gets worse | Mo. hospital CEO abruptly exits | Nashville General could move | 76 hospital closures, state by state | How Geisinger's refund program is faring

July 14, 2022

• 2 Ohio hospitals to end inpatient care | St. Jude to double campus | 9 hospital CEOs planning exits | Mayo nurses to vote on leaving union | 91 stats on physician pay | 5 most 'overpaid' healthcare CEOs | Time to update definition of fully vaccinated?

July 13, 2022

• After stabbing, staff say SSM ignored asks for security | St. Charles CEO abruptly exits | 7 CEO moves | Providence averts strike | Cerner parent mulls thousands of layoffs | Amazon, Fred Hutchinson go in on clinical trial | US BA.5 strategy: 3 notes

July 12, 2022

• UNC hospital's Medicare contract at risk | SSM nurse, paramedic stabbed | EMTALA covers abortion | Optum, Healthgrades parent form JV | Mass General Brigham doubles down on home care | How to start a PBM, Mark Cuban style | Where are the masks?

July 11, 2022

• COVID hospitalizations at 4-mo. high | HHS to renew PHE this week | 12 exec resignations | Couple found dead in Texas hospital | Plans firm up for Walmart heir's medical school | Burger King poaches Optum exec | Strike looms at Calif. hospital

July 08, 2022

• OhioHealth cuts 637 jobs | Man charged with shooting into Fla. hospital | Dr. Eric Topol: BA.5 'wave afoot' | HHS gets $142M to providers | CMS floats physician pay rule: 7 notes | Edward-Elmhurst forms med group | Cleveland Clinic adds employer offerings

July 07, 2022

• Healthcare job cuts on the rise | North Korean hackers target hospitals | 7 CEO moves | Alec Baldwin nudges BCBS to cover surgery | Ascension opens Fla. hospital | Tenet to keep oncology services at Mass. hospital

July 06, 2022

• 148 best hospitals, per Money + Leapfrog | Layoffs hit ProMedica | SSM adds 600 providers | BA.5: 5 notes on 'worst version' of COVID yet | MU Health Care CEO departs for OU Health | Va. hospital to reopen

July 05, 2022

• PeaceHealth phases out travel nurses, grapples with shortage | NorthShore called 20 physicians in after parade shooting | A caveat of payers' current posted prices | 3 COVID forecasts for the week | CMS' new Rural Emergency Hospital designation: 8 notes

July 02, 2022

• 8 hospital layoffs | Top 100 hospitals, per Fortune | Healthcare's increasingly anxious workforce | Ascension St. Vincent closes immediate care centers | Providence, Mount Sinai, Kaiser Permanente join Biden's climate push

July 01, 2022

• Top 15 health systems, per Fortune/IBM | Ariz. hospital lays off 315 | Michael Dowling: The lost art of compromise | Payers' price posting starts today: 8 things to know | Mich. hospital gets 1 mo. lifeline

June 30, 2022

• Police kill armed patient in Baylor Scott & White ER | Mich. hospital preps for layoffs | St. Luke's briefly suspends Plan B | 9 CEO moves | Pay full-time nurses - not travels - more, union tells Seattle Children's | Trinity restructures NY leadership

June 29, 2022

• 'Skyrocketing' hospital expenses offset revenue gains | Sloan Kettering names CEO | 19 financially strong systems | Mayo nurses aim to shake union | 30 MBA programs with top ROI | BA.4, BA.5 dominate | Prepping for PHE's end | AHA wants quick 340B payback

June 28, 2022

• 20 most socially responsible hospitals | NY hospital plans layoff | CMS rolls out cancer payment model | Anthem now Elevance Health | AdventHealth names Fla. hospital CEO | Intermountain's strategy chief on disruptive collaboration

June 27, 2022

• Ariz. hospital to close | Beaumont-Spectrum revises abortion stance | HHS won't name hospitals where patients caught COVID | Hotels go in on MRIs, IV drips and bloodwork | UPMC sued over COVID test that canceled wedding | Texas system adjusts CEO roles

June 24, 2022

• 4 top systems, 14,144 open jobs | 1 dead in stabbing at Nev. hospital | Texas Health Resources names 5 presidents | Ex-employees sue Mayo over vaccine rule | Publix won't vaccinate kids under 5 | $23B in healthcare megadeals

June 23, 2022

• Hospitals see ongoing weaponization of COVID aid | 1,000 Kaiser nurses set to strike today | 8 CEO moves | Mayo, UnitedHealthcare reach agreement | What drove 6 hospitals to closure | Health systems want gov't to help 'shoulder burden' of cyberattacks

June 22, 2022

• 25 healthiest communities in America | Palomar Health averts strike | LifePoint names 2 executives | SC providers can now deny care at odds with their beliefs | 70 Tufts physicians head to Boston Children's | Gas prices thwart access to care

June 21, 2022

• Hospitals deem CMS' pay pitch 'woefully inadequate' | Ariz. hospital preps for mass layoff | Mark Cuban + Medicare drug contract would save $3.6B | 50 digital chiefs to know | 399 top hospitals for PX | Beaumont-Spectrum welcomes diversity chief

June 20, 2022

• Hospitals and the challenge of new teams | 21 executive moves | 17 'overpaid' healthcare CEOs | LA hospitals brace for billions in upgrades | 48 CMIOs, CNIOs to know | Where nonprofit hospitals see lowest expenses | 6 supply chain leaders on backorders

June 17, 2022

• A big week for FTC as HCA, Steward scrap deal | Hospitals reframe unposted prices | Mayo HR chief departs | Johns Hopkins down to last days with CEO | Deal for COVID funds 'all but dead' | Top hospital sites send PHI to Facebook

June 16, 2022

• Best, worst states for healthcare amid COVID | Hospital CEO exits surge | Kaiser LA nurses call strike | NJ hospital CEOs 'speak up about the unspeakable' | 340B pay cut overturned | CMS fined Northside $1M for unposted prices — now what?

June 15, 2022

• Delayed care, inflation fuel healthcare price sensitivity | NJ hospitals scrap deal after FTC challenge | Top CEOs more cautious on hiring | 8 CEO moves | Providence looks to shrink office footprint | Omicron 'sister variants' gain traction

June 14, 2022

• 10 best children's hospitals: US News | Hospitals see legal risks from travel nurses | Ga. hospital CEO is out | UPMC, Houston Methodist break ground | FTC wants more info on Optum-LHC Group deal | Conn. hospital halts surgeries due to staff shortages

June 13, 2022

• 9 hospital exec resignations | HCA to open 8th nursing school | Erlanger CEO to exit | The billionaire funding a battle against hospital monopolies | Calif. nurses plan strike | Iowa hospital taps new CEO, CFO | 20 top critical access hospitals

June 10, 2022

• The healthcare CEOs signing on for gun safety | HCA hospitals' 24 exec changes | Larry Ellison wants a nat'l database via Cerner | Pay for 55 hospital jobs | As payers shun rate increase asks, can hospitals save elsewhere? | CHS' turnaround work stalls

June 09, 2022

• CMS starts fining hospitals for unposted prices | Northwell exec to head Beaumont-Spectrum system | COO fired after hospital learns of criminal record | US to tap 100 hospitals for kids' vaccines | FTC's noncompete crackdown

June 08, 2022

• NY hospital ousts 3 leaders | Bill would protect healthcare staff like flight crews | 10 CEO moves | HCA's 5-hospital deal on hold | Why PAs aren't using 'physician associate' yet | LeBron James to open healthcare center | FTC to probe PBMs

June 07, 2022

• HCA hiked Mission prices, suit claims | LA physicians avert strike | Prisma tech dead, patient charged | Mo. system names CEO | Allina shooter found guilty of murder | Oracle buys Cerner | Inpatient volumes to grow 2% over 10 years

June 06, 2022

• Physician, nurses stabbed in Calif. hospital | Providence hospital averts strike | What to do about broken nurse pay? | HCA names CEO of Texas hospital | Woman shot in UNC hospital | Amazon's consumer chief exits | 6 women on the move in healthcare

June 03, 2022

• Tulsa gunman targeted surgeon he blamed for pain | FTC sues to block 2 hospital deals | PeaceHealth physicians want union recognition | Providence nurses OK strikes | Gen Z wants social determinants of health screenings | Carbon Health lays off 250

June 02, 2022

• 5 dead in Okla. hospital campus shooting | 2 dead in shooting at Ohio hospital | 10 hospital layoffs | Dye shortage leaves patients in limbo | 5 CEO moves | Pa. systems to merge | Texas hospital to pay staff to get healthcare degree

June 01, 2022

• 1,300 LA physicians plan strike | Kaiser to study gun violence like preventable disease | Dignity physicians to protest | Minn. nurses target executive pay | Lawsuits still piling up over hospital vaccine rules | 5 best states for healthcare

May 31, 2022

• Hospital revenues plummet | Ascension names CIO | CMS cites 69 hospitals over vaccine rule | Vanderbilt trains drivers, cleaning staff for clinical jobs | A pharma CEO is most 'undervalued' of Fortune 500 | Cedars-Sinai workers approve new contract

May 27, 2022

• Cleveland Clinic posts $282M loss | Calif. hospital closes | Mass General vaccinates staff against monkeypox | CMS zeroes in on hospitals with COVID outbreaks | 10 exec resignations | Ohio hospital to end L&D care | 15 states hit hardest by the 'Big Quit'

May 25, 2022

• Dowling: 'Every hospital leader should be screaming what an abomination this is' | Employer sues Advocate Aurora | Trinity plans layoffs | 5 best, worst places for physicians | Fla. hospital can't cover paychecks | A new dominant COVID strain

May 24, 2022

• Walmart favors these 18 systems for employees | Boston hospital to trim services, jobs | Fla. hospital halts maternity care | Walgreens sues Meritus | In-house staffing agencies carry risks, too | Monkeypox: 7 developments | NJ hospital workers strike

May 23, 2022

• 25 top healthcare cos. on new Fortune 500 | Cedars-Sinai names equity chief | Monkeypox: 4 expert takes | Wyo. hospitals cut services, cite travel nurse costs | 161 top maternity hospitals, state by state | Abbott CEO on formula shortage: 'We're sorry'

May 21, 2022

• Trinity's operating income slips 79% | Mass General Brigham CFO: Inflation is biggest challenge now | CEO exits hit record high | Hospitals feel the brain drain | UW Health uses $100-per-hour incentive to stem nurse shortages

May 20, 2022

• Mayo an outlier with $142M operating gain | Cleveland Clinic CFO leaves for top payer job | Signs the early-retirement narrative was 'overblown' | Calif. hospital names CEO | 30 best places to live | A COVID wave 'almost like omicron'

May 19, 2022

• Tenet hospital's Medicare contract at risk | CEO resignations hit record high | Mass General Brigham plans $70M in cuts a year | Mayo may see 100+ lawsuits over vaccine rule | McLaren CMO dies | Ore. system cuts 181 jobs

May 18, 2022

• Hospitals feel the brain drain | 8 CEO moves | Providence sees $510M operating loss | Strike set at Allina, M Health Fairview | FTC makes for healthcare headaches until 2025: Viewpoint | COVID hospitalizations up in 45 states

May 17, 2022

• PHE set to carry over past July | Advocate Aurora sees $253M loss | 10 hospitals that best avoid unnecessary care | Christus blocks ransomware | Cone Health names strategy chief | Pros, cons of interim leaders

May 16, 2022

• Hospitals await PHE signal today | CommonSpirit sees $591M operating loss | Cedars-Sinai strike ends sans agreement | Dartmouth, GraniteOne scrap merger | Medical groups on RaDonda Vaught sentencing | COVID hospitalizations climb for 5th week

May 13, 2022

• Atrium-Advocate Aurora go for digital depth | Mo. system wants a partner | Nonprofit hospital margins to stay weak in Q2 | Nurses take to streets | Calif. plans inflation relief checks for hospital staff | Rudeness and medical errors

May 12, 2022

• St. Luke's sues over protest, 'smear campaign' | NewYork-Presbyterian COO to retire | Shortfall of 450,000 nurses by 2025 | The unhealthiest part of each state | Dye shortage makes for 8 rocky weeks | Ballad reports $37M operating loss

May 11, 2022

• Atrium, Advocate Aurora to merge | 5 CEO moves | 'A perfect storm' for hospitals | AdventHealth posts $417.7M loss | The healthiest county in each state | Hospitals urge HHS to continue public health emergency

May 10, 2022

• USC physicians to unionize | X-ray dye shortage hinders hospitals | 39 hospitals aced, flunked patient safety: Leapfrog | Allina operating income up $165M | Funding may limit next-gen COVID shots to certain arms | Omnicell IDs ransomware

May 9, 2022

• Strike starts at Cedars-Sinai | Jha warns of 'pretty sizable' fall COVID wave | Travel nurse pay cut, contracts nixed | Hospitals tap insurers for price hikes | United policies drive physicians to Optum: Suit | Bipartisan agreement: CEOs are overpaid

May 8, 2022

• The busiest ERs | 15 financially strong systems | 25 executive moves | Sutter posts $95M operating gain | 'Who wants to follow someone like that?' | $10B in hospital projects | Preventable hospitalizations: States ranked

May 7, 2022

• Kaiser posts $961M Q1 loss | When new hires go dark | Chicago, Milwaukee enter medium COVID risk: What it means | 5 systems outsourcing finance work | Employers keep mum on abortion | NC hospital CFO steps down | Critical medical supply shortages persist

May 6, 2022

• Nurses make exit plans after colleague's conviction | 10 CEO resignations | 12 hospitals curb care | Allscripts CEO Paul Black to step down | Columbia cuts ties with Dr. Oz | Atlanta hospital ends inpatient care | Amazon hiring for 7 healthcare jobs

May 5, 2022

• Housing thwarts hospital hiring | 441 hospitals face closure, cuts | Avoid a tone-deaf Nurses Week | Pa. system to close ER | 10 top-earning states for physicians | Opinion: Call a surge a surge

May 4, 2022

• Stanford physicians to unionize after botched vaccine rollout | 7 hospital layoffs amid record quits | 6 CEO moves | Avera names COO | COVID hospitalizations up in 40 states | Nat'l Hospital Week: 6 things to know

May 3, 2022

• The best, worst states for nurses | Tenet plan to cut services gets pushback | 21 hospitals with most ER visits | What medium COVID risk entails | Stanford nurses return to work | CVS Health names CMO | 4 hospital turf wars

May 2, 2022

• Seasoned workers join The Big Quit | Ascension sees $884M quarterly loss | Stanford, nurses reach tentative deal | COVID admissions up in 38 states: What 4 experts make of trends | Hospitals' negative margins persist | AAP to ditch race-based guidelines

May 1, 2022

• 19 executive moves | Median PA salary by state | A 5-letter fix for medication errors | 17 specialties ranked by incentive bonus | COVID admissions jump 18%: 9 CDC stats | EHR vendors by market share | Hospital expenses per inpatient day in 50 states

April 30, 2022

• Cedars-Sinai staff to strike | Kaiser worker dies by suicide at hospital | CEOs miss more work over mental health | Raises aren't enough: How 250 hospitals retain staff | Physicians: Staffing co. discouraged COVID tests, sick days | A growing C-suite role

April 29, 2022

• A hospital CEO exit every 72 hours | Quorum CEO resigns | Wright Lassiter to lead CommonSpirit as CEO | First human bird flu case identified in US | SSM Health to form 1,200+ physician group | Texas Children's peds chief leaves after 6 mos.

April 28, 2022

• Healthcare's matter-of-fact optimists | Tenet sues OSHA to block inspection | Texas hospital to shut down | Fauci refines 'out of pandemic' remark | CHS posts $1M loss for Q1 | St. Louis hospital execs lose nurses' confidence

April 27, 2022

• Fauci: US 'out of pandemic phase' | 150 top places to work in healthcare | 5 CEO moves | Stanford nurses carry on strike | 57% of Americans have had COVID | New arrest made in Ochsner nurse attack

April 26, 2022

• Walmart heir creates new health system | Tenet reports cybersecurity problem | 10 executive resignations | HCA moved the CEO bonus goalpost | COVID hospitalizations tick up in 24 states

April 25, 2022

• Stanford nurses to strike | Cases tick up in puzzling hepatitis outbreak | A crucial missing point in mask debates | 15 best, worst job markets | Hospital expenses per inpatient day, state by state | Retirement regret (and how one hospital CEO beat it)

April 24, 2022

• 26 exec moves | COVID-19 hospitalizations rise for 2nd week | 74% of physicians are employed | $1.6B CMS pay bump isn't enough, hospitals say | $3K bill for 1.8 mile ambulance ride goes viral | Top paid healthcare CEOs

April 23, 2022

• 5 highest-paying physician specialties | Mass. hospital loses 3rd CEO in 4 yrs. | 13 women on the move in healthcare | EHR woes feed staff resignations | AdventHealth, HCA compete to build hospital | UnitedHealth quietly buys medical groups

April 22, 2022

• 7 hospitals cutting inpatient care | The consensus on 1-way masking | High labor costs hit HCA | Baylor Scott & White brings in growth chief | 16 hospitals with strong finances | Renown shakes up leadership | 3 systems betting on internal travel programs

April 21, 2022

• CEO resigns as Tenet hospital cuts services | COVID hospitalizations up in 20 states | Anthem under fire over unpaid claims | HCA nurses stage speak-out | 6 CEO resignations | CMS pay bump falls short, hospitals say

April 20, 2022

• What rising risk of recession holds for hospitals | 9 CEO moves | Physician acquitted of 14 counts of murder | Sutter locks out nurses | Fuzzy link between burnout, care quality | HHS unveils M&A data

April 19, 2022

• Some hospitals relax mask rules | CMS' new inpatient payment rule: 10 takeaways | The young RN exodus | 14 top-paid healthcare CEOs | Cedars-Sinai names CIO | Jury deadlocked in Ohio physician's murder trial

April 18, 2022

• Kaiser restructuring underway | COVID hospitalizations up in 12 states | Providence names digital chief | Jha rejects '0 COVID' strategy | Thousands of Sutter workers to strike today | Why baby-boomer nurses stuck with hospitals

April 17, 2022

• 23 exec moves | COVID hospitalizations tick up: 9 CDC stats | Physician specialties ranked by burnout, pay | Clemency off table for RaDonda Vaught | Job security at record high | Male physicians' paychecks up to 31% more than female colleagues

April 16, 2022

• 10 best states for physician pay | UW Medicine CEO to retire | CEO, CFO resign from Ga. system | Can hospitals compete with retail wages? | NY health plan sees executive exodus | Test-to-treat spotty for many Americans

April 15, 2022

• 29 physician specialties ranked by pay | Lifespan CEO to resign | 10 places with largest projected COVID jumps | $1.75B in HHS relief, state by state | Sinai Chicago names CEO | HCA changes execs at Fla. hospitals | Why medical ethicists like NFTs

April 14, 2022

• 9 CEO moves | Tech attacked by nurse sues Hackensack | COVID admissions up in 12 states | Hospital near closure gets anonymous $1M | CMS to discern 'birth-friendly' hospitals | Thousands of Stanford nurses to strike | Mark Cuban's pharmacy adds 80 drugs

April 13, 2022

• Chicago hospital CEO out of job | Jha: US 'in reasonably good shape' with COVID | AHA slams charity care rankings | CHI Health starts travel nurse arm | Healthcare inflation holds steady | 10 C-level exits from hospitals

April 12, 2022

• Public health emergency limit looms | Omicron sister variants: 4 updates | 20,000 open jobs at hospitals' best employers | Cedars-Sinai workers OK strike | The most expensive city to build hospitals | HHS wants data on 2,000 providers' billing

April 11, 2022

• 8 best systems to work for, per Fortune | COVID hospitalizations up in 9 states | Fauci, Gottlieb urge self-interpretation of risk | Healthcare workforce normalizing with 1 exception | Sutter workers plan strike | 19 hospitals seeking CEOs, CFOs

April 10, 2022

• 26 exec moves | COVID cases rise nationwide: 9 CDC updates | 9 hospitals scaling back care | The best schools for 8 medical specialties | PA, NP pay in 50 states | PBMs by 2021 market share | 5 best healthcare cos. to grow your career

April 9, 2022

• Mark Cuban's ready to say no | The 'twindemic' that didn't happen | Stanford nurses OK strike | Miss. hospital ousts executives | Amazon wants a hospital C-leader whisperer | Tech gets more blue collar | The end game for hospitals' higher wages

April 8, 2022

• A big drop in healthcare M&A | BA.2 hospitalization spike no sure thing, Fauci holds | Longtime Centene CEO dies | Hospitals let down as lawmakers break with $10B aid in limbo | MultiCare splits top job | 'Great Resignation' rebrand | Fla. system taps CEO

April 7, 2022

• COVID hospitalizations tick up in 4 states | 7 hospital layoffs | Atlanta hospital to curb care | HCA rolls out return to corporate office | Kan. hospital CEO to resign | Pharmacist pay in 50 states | CDC mask guidelines spur confusion for hospitals

April 6, 2022

• The blasé around BA.2 | 33 billionaires in healthcare | Cleveland Clinic's de-innovation | Walmart opens Fla. clinics | COVID cases up in 21 states | $10B aid blocked in Senate | 7 CEO moves | $3B UCSF expansion under fire

April 5, 2022

• The end game for hospitals' higher wages | 10 most, least healthy cities | Michael Dowling: Maternal mortality isn't changing, so Northwell is | NP pay in 50 states: New data | Biden wants to update ACA | Senators reach $10B COVID deal

April 4, 2022

• Omicron XE: 5 things to know | CEO pay nears record | PA pay in 50 states: New data | Mass General Brigham halts $224M expansion | COVID cases up in 20 states, hospitalizations fall | Former hospital CEO accused of assault with deadly weapon

April 3, 2022

• 23 executive moves | Best medical, business schools: US News | Bad management drove our exodus, nurses say | 75 Black healthcare leaders to know | RN, CRNA pay in 50 states: New data | 6 financially strong systems

April 2, 2022

• 'A wake-up call to health system leaders' | Mo. system CEO resigns after 18 mos. | Ascension, AdventHealth rename hospitals post-split | Hospital margins off to rough start | Amazon seeks health tech chief

April 1, 2022

• Time for more nurse CEOs? | Senate nears $10B aid deal | Kan. bucks CMS vaccine rule | Atrius lays off nurses | COVID cases up in 17 states | BCBS Ill. president abruptly exits | Ivermectin falls short again

March 31, 2022

• More hospital CEOs stepping down | RN pay in 50 states: New data | Mercy's new CEO takes the helm | Dr. Megan Ranney: US more vulnerable to COVID than ever | Senators scramble for aid | Mark Cuban's pharmacy adds 50+ drugs | Ascension names mission chief

March 30, 2022

• Rudeness on the rise | COVID cases up in 13 states as BA.2 gains dominance | 5 CEO moves | Grant convicted nurse clemency, petitioners urge | Calif. hospital to lay off 658 | Chicago hospital plans $645M upgrade | Colo. bans 'doxxing' of healthcare pros

March 29, 2022

• Hackers planned to attack 400 hospitals in 2020 | Best med schools, ranked by US News | Biden's $5.8T budget: 9 healthcare notes | Hospitals push for public health emergency renewal | Cleveland Clinic London opens | UnitedHealth to buy LHC Group

March 28, 2022

• Hospital finances still sick from omicron | ​​ANA 'deeply distressed' by nurse conviction | Police shoot, kill patient in Fla. ER | COVID cases up in 10 states | Walmart to curb tobacco sales amid healthcare foray | UH names flagship president

March 27, 2022

• 23 exec moves | 7 canceled hospital deals | 15 best, worst states for physicians | Shots fall as BA.2 spreads: 10 CDC notes | 7 questions on hospital CEO pay | Zillennials' sway at work | 77 experience, digital chiefs to know | Booster rates by state

March 26, 2022

• Former Vanderbilt nurse found guilty | CoxHealth names next CEO | 200+ physicians have left HCA's Mission, watchdog says | What sets great leaders apart from the rest | Tenet hires Cigna exec | The slowest group to return to work

March 25, 2022

• 6 reputable systems, 17,061 open jobs | COVID cases up in 10 states | CEOs' big paydays | 2 minutes may cost Tufts $400M | CDC amends guidance for N95s in hospitals | Ohio system lowers hiring age to 16 | Mass General gifted with $50M

March 24, 2022

• COVID cases up in 9 states | Reckless or routine? Workarounds point of debate in nurse's trial | 8 CEO moves | Will boomers unretire? | ProMedica to lay off 200 | Advocate Aurora more than triples net income | The most, least innovative states

March 23, 2022

• BA.2 now 35% of US cases; Fauci holds that surge unlikely | 8 hospital chief exits | Rules delayed for Calif. travel nurses | $413M in HHS relief funds, state by state | Court blocks NJ hospital deal | 35 digital chiefs to know | Zillennials' sway at work

March 22, 2022

• Understaffed hospitals cut services | Trial begins for nurse over deadly error | Experts question 4th doses; White House says no money for them | What's in the Dr. Lorna Breen Act? | Henry Ford rebrands | Biden escalates cyberattack warning

March 21, 2022

• The latest on BA.2 + boosters | CMS to hospitals: Let people wear N95s | 15 best, worst states for physicians | Amazon seeks physician leader | More UK hospital staff out with COVID | NYC hospital job ads will soon be salaried

March 20, 2022

• 21 exec moves | COVID shots slump amid BA.2 threat: 10 CDC notes | Why some hospitals ask people to swap out N95s | 15 systems with top patient reviews | 10 healthcare cos. Peter Drucker would find innovative | 11 layoffs

March 19, 2022

• Caveats of COVID forecasting right now | Booster rates by state | Nurses call for end of 'profit-first policies' | Managers are conflicted | Pa. hospital scales back care | Ivermectin falls short | UnitedHealth blasts DOJ challenge to Change deal

March 18, 2022

• Fauci expects 'bit of increase' to COVID cases | Possible surge warrants caution: 4 thoughts | 8 CEO resignations | Harassment of health leaders quantified | Exec pay at CHS, Tenet, HCA | NY nixes booster rule | Where are Americans quitting most?

March 17, 2022

• Dr. Ashish Jha is Biden's new COVID czar | COVID relief aid meltdown: 6 things to know | CEO exits HCA hospital | 10 most segregated hospital markets | Walmart ramps up health hiring | 42 CXOs to know | Reliance on travel nurses likely post-pandemic

March 16, 2022

• COVID hospitalizations rise in UK, as do questions | Pfizer seeks OK for 2nd booster | 11 hospital layoffs | 6 CEO moves | BA.2 makes up 23% of new cases: CDC | Hospitals' housing problem | The appeal of semi-retirement

March 15, 2022

• What Gen Z, millennial nurses want | Biden's plan to close, reboot VA hospitals | HCA executive pay: 5 notes | 9 systems deemed 'world's most ethical' | US primary care lags: 5 findings | Newsom targets hospital costs

March 14, 2022

• Amazon hires Providence exec | Pfizer CEO says 2nd booster needed | 'Can anyone blame nurses for turning the tables?' | Mich. hospital, president part ways | 88 CMOs to know | Pa. nurses start strike | Memorial Hermann, BCBS reach deal

March 13, 2022

• 23 exec moves | NY system to lay off 874 | 10 most innovative health companies | 9 hospitals cutting inpatient care | Healthcare worker shortages go mainstream | Physicians sentenced for $250M fraud | Walgreens' primary care plans: 5 notes

March 12, 2022

• CEO pay by hospital type | Sutter defeats $411M antitrust suit | COVID, flu: 20 CDC updates | Providence's operating loss doubles | Wash. hospital CEO goes on defense | The tie between medical errors, daylight saving | 20 best-managed healthcare cos.

March 11, 2022

• Deltacron: What we know now about the potential variant | Renown fires CEO | 9 hospitals ending inpatient care | CommonSpirit's plan to curb nurse turnover | 12 CEO retirements | Watch for 3 red flags in health tech partners

March 10, 2022

• NY system plans 874 layoffs | Anthem to change name | MyMichigan Health CEO dies in plane crash | $15.6B in pandemic aid dropped | 8 health systems with strong finances | Hospital-at-home advice from Mayo, Presbyterian + Michigan Med

March 9, 2022

• Fla. system CEO resigns | Agency staff cost NJ hospitals $670M | Non-competes in feds' crosshairs | Telehealth extension on the table | 'Test-to-treat' now live | 20 best-managed healthcare cos. | 8 CEO moves | Why hospital execs are dialing B-schools

March 8, 2022

• HHS: COVID funding used up | Cybersecurity cos. cover hospitals for free | Healthcare shortages go mainstream | Michael Dowling on embracing hybrid work (with no looking back) | Fla. to advise against vaccines for 'healthy' kids

March 7, 2022

• 12 asks from experts to fight COVID, complacency | Russian donation to Mayo scrutinized | Ill. hospital on verge of losing license | Sanford market chief exits | Colo. moves to ban healthcare 'doxxing' | Medical groups critique 'test-to-treat' plan

March 6, 2022

• 892 hospitals at risk of closure, by state | 26 exec moves | The nurse shortage caveat | COVID, flu: 19 CDC notes | Physicians per capita: States ranked | Trends hospital marketers won't miss

March 5, 2022

• Hospital layoffs persist | J&J shot recipients have questions | The dollar cost of nurse turnover | New Calif. medical school on probation | CVS eyes metaverse trademarks | Hospitals short on saline | Cleveland Clinic pitches airport patient lounge

March 4, 2022

• Biden seeks $22.5B more in COVID aid | Blackface photos drive call for firings at Minn. system | Sloan Kettering CEO to exit | 8 exec resignations | No sign BA.2 will spur surge: Dr. Michael Osterholm | What health execs make of Amazon Care

March 3, 2022

• Hospitals: Our staffing problems are a nat'l emergency | BA.2 prevalence by state | 6 CEO moves | 25 US hospitals among 100 best in world | Experts react to Biden's COVID plan | Civica goes in on insulin | 15 states hit most, least by resignations

March 2, 2022

• Biden's new COVID plan | A long wait for CMS' vaccine rule results | BA.2 doubling every week | State of the Union: 7 healthcare notes | Cleveland Clinic more than triples operating income | Hospitals vie for talent with perks beyond pay

March 1, 2022

• Should medical errors be criminalized? | The dollar cost of physician turnover | Mayo bucks trend, posts $3.6B net income | Miss. system CEO resigns | Healthcare's top billionaires | One more pandemic change: Need for personal space

February 28, 2022

• A devastating month for hospital finances | 3 COVID forecasts | Execs' vaccine exemption worry | 83 hospital benchmarks | Where hospitals' COVID data, realities diverge | Mission Health names CMO | Lawmakers move to combat violence against healthcare pros

February 27, 2022

• PA, NP and RN salaries, by state | 'Overpaid' health chiefs | The latest on COVID, flu: 17 CDC notes | Trinity's operating income down 58% | 228-minute wait in Md. ERs: Median waits by state | 10 systems with strong finances | 7 hospital layoffs

February 26, 2022

• CDC's new mask guidance | Healthcare workers on why they quit | Tenet hospital CEO abruptly exits | Hospital gets bomb threat amid ivermectin hostility | Physicians: ACO redesign is 'direct contracting in disguise' | Mark Cuban v. healthcare's status quo

February 25, 2022

• 17 'overpaid' healthcare CEOs | The story we still need to get right | ER wait times, by state | Fla. issues COVID guidance to 'buck CDC' | Wash. sues Providence | HHS disperses $560M in relief | Beaumont execs depart

February 24, 2022

• Hospital layoffs persist in tight labor market | Scott Becker: 7 thoughts on great leaders | BA.2 dominant in 18 countries: 'We need to pay attention' | Lifespan, Care New England drop merger | Part of HHS' surprise billing rule struck down

February 23, 2022

• Altru president abruptly exits | RN salary by state | Hospital leaders who avoid ivory towers | 7 CEO resignations | System margins narrow under 1% | Keep BA.2 classified as omicron: WHO | 10 most common sentinel events

February 22, 2022

• Mark Cuban wants to buck status quo healthcare | 23% of workers likely to exit healthcare | Wash. hospital fires CEO | 10 systems with strong finances | Dr. Paul Farmer dies at 62 | BA.2 prevalence, by state

February 21, 2022

• 29 burned out specialties, ranked | 3 COVID forecasts | Unposted hospital prices go unpunished | CHS execs get raises | Pharmacists defy low pay for filled COVID treatments | Gen Z anxiety linked to remote work | NY hospitals get 90-day delay for boosters

February 20, 2022

• 55 hospitals are 8x repeat offenders for patient complications | 4 possible pandemic scenarios | 24 executive moves | Baby boomers add salt to 'Great Resignation' wounds | CEO pay by hospital size | 66 CNOs to know | CHS shed 30 hospitals in 3 years</li

February 19, 2022

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RNs per capita by state | BA.2 needs own name, researchers say | Dr. Lorna Breen provider protection act: 5 notes | CDC to update mask guidance | 453 hospitals at risk of closure | Mo. hospital CEO resigns | Google thwarts Health Affairs

February 18, 2022

• Patients who caught COVID in hospitals hit record high | The hospital-at-home waiting game | Calif. rolls out endemic plan | FTC challenges Lifespan-Care New England deal | Pay raises lag in healthcare | 9 hospitals scaling back care

February 17, 2022

• CDC to update mask guidance | Physicians call out pandemic privilege many ignore | 9 CEO moves | Hospital files restraining order after online attacks | 34 states where daycare costs more than college | CEO pay by hospital size | CHS' net income drops 39%

February 16, 2022

• We can't ask clinicians to work harder: CDC, CMS on patient safety lapses | Mayo ups raises amid staff discontent | HHS seeks $30B in COVID fight | BA.2 in 47 states: 5 updates | 8 hospital exec resignations | Cleveland Clinic: Top 10 innovations in '22

February 15, 2022

• Patient safety doesn't bode well in pandemic | Hospital puts ICU on lockdown after online attacks | Why Health Affairs can't promote its new issue | 66 CNOs to know | Northwestern buys hotel | Penn goes tuition-free for NPs | Wash. hospital fires 4 execs

February 14, 2022

• 3 COVID forecasts for the week | Hospitals in 24 states face key vaccine deadline today | License wait times reach crisis levels | Lawmakers push for end to public health emergency | Kaiser's operating margin shrinks | Longtime NJ system CEO to retire

February 13, 2022

• 22 executive moves | The cold email behind Mark Cuban's pharmacy | 16 states say omicron makes vaccine rule moot | 30 best healthcare cos. to work for | 4 states with highest flu levels | 5 billion-dollar hospital projects | 7 Qs on hospital CEO pay

February 12, 2022

• BA.2 subvariant: 6 updates | CMS delays star ratings | Coworkers raise funds for tech burned by travel nurse | US COVID deaths dip: 9 stats | NP salaries, state by state | COVID linked to stillbirth | Mich. hospital CEO exits

February 11, 2022

• 48 best hospitals to work for, per Forbes | If 1 in 5 healthcare workers quit, where'd they go? | Hospitals plead for staffing policies | Staff shortages by state | Wash. execs lose physicians' confidence | Where COVID deaths are rising fastest

February 10, 2022

• Physicians: Let's build on-ramps for next surge, too | NPs per capita, by state | Layoffs hit Pa. system as CEO exits | 96,694 hospitalized with COVID | Okla. won't act over unproven COVID treatment scripts | 9 CEO moves | 14% of hospitals posting prices

February 9, 2022

• Mask rules get patchier: 6 notes | CMS penalizes 38 of its 5-star hospitals | COVID hospitalizations down in 44 states | Mo. hospital CEO fired; Mass. hospital CEO resigns | Calif. measure would let nurses work as independent contractors

February 8, 2022

• Cap hospital CEO pay, nurses say | Biden looks to change hospitals' COVID reporting | Healthgrades' 50 top hospitals | MercyOne execs abruptly resign | Travel nurse allegedly sets coworker on fire at NJ hospital | Tenet more than doubles annual profit

February 7, 2022

• States move to block CMS vaccine rule | 10 states with fewest forecasted COVID cases by week's end | PeaceHealth accused of retaliation | CEO, COO exit Mo. system | Kaiser Permanente's Medicaid contract raises concerns

February 6, 2022

• Hospital leaders' No. 1 health concern in every state | 23 exec moves | 3 hospitals close; 800+ jobs cut | Flu activity high in 4 states | State-by-state breakdown of $11B provider aid | 5 tools execs think hospitals should skip | 7 new nursing programs

February 5, 2022

• 32 healthcare cos. among 'world's most admired' | COVID deaths may be slowing: 9 CDC stats | Sentara CEO to retire | More men eye nursing | Hospitals sue over $4M of allegedly fake masks | 8 systems' game-changing EHR changes | 'We're women, not girls'

February 4, 2022

• Hospital CEOs have new top concern after 17 years | Mass. hospital sees nurse exodus | 10 executive resignations | Where COVID cases are up, down + flat | UPMC sues SEIU | Pa. physician fired over ivermectin scripts

February 3, 2022

• Hospitals adjust in winter storm: 10 notes | Some patients want COVID status off record | Up to 76,000 COVID deaths expected in Feb. | 7 hospital layoffs | Int'l nurses sue over quitting fees | SEIU accuses HCA of fraud | Crozer chief exits + 8 CEO moves

February 2, 2022

• Hospitals' ivory tower problem | 764 hospitals dinged for care complications | Lawmakers push for tougher punishment of healthcare worker assault | An unusual omicron symptom + 8 COVID updates | Critical staff shortages: Nos. by state

February 1, 2022

• What models show about BA.2 | Adventist strategy chief resigns | Walmart staff get custom physician recs | What will get people to stay in healthcare? We asked 22 hospital leaders | Calif. universal healthcare bill dies | Spectrum-Beaumont system launches

January 31, 2022

• 3 COVID forecasts | Ochsner nurse attacked; CEO wants healthcare violence made a felony | Single-payer bill faces key decision in Calif. | Hospitals add calls for White House to probe travel nurse prices | 'People don't want to be managers anymore'

January 30, 2022

• 30 exec moves | 14 health systems with strong finances | 27 drugs Mark Cuban's co. offers for at least $100 less | 113 great healthcare leaders | HCA to add 8 hospitals | The No. 1 obstacle to hospital innovation?

January 29, 2022

• Don't count out delta | COVID deaths up 25% this week: 9 CDC stats | $700M Chicago hospital approved | Cleveland Clinic names digital chief | CHS owes fees in $98M fraud case | 5 omicron challenges to address before another surge

January 28, 2022

• 5 states set COVID hospitalization records | HCA posts $7B profit, plans to add 8 hospitals | 16 women making moves in healthcare | 14 systems with strong finances | What happened to contact tracing? | Novant invests $40M into PTO | CMO exits NJ hospital

January 27, 2022

• Today is first vaccine deadline for hospitals in 25 states | 'An invisible HHS secretary' | COVID hospitalizations up in 35 states | Cleveland Clinic's record year | Why pharmacists quit | CoxHealth CEO's goal: 'Distort nothing'

January 26, 2022

• Mind the endemic overoptimism | Hospitals' antibody strategies all about luck | Lawmakers want Biden's crosshairs on travel nurse prices | Omicron subvariant: What we know now | Sell-off of health stocks drags on

January 25, 2022

• ThedaCare sued Ascension to keep staff from quitting — and lost | Omicron deaths mirror delta wave | Fla. drops appeal against CMS vaccine rule | 27 drugs Mark Cuban's co. offers for at least $100 less | Physicians want N95s across the board in hospitals

January 24, 2022

• 6 COVID forecasts for the week | The problem with quasi-experts | CDC shifts from 'fully vaccinated' to 'up to date' | COVID hospitalizations down in 9 states | Mayo responds to employees let down by raises | 7 hospitals ending inpatient care | TikTok, MD

January 23, 2022

• 17 exec moves | Top-rated hospitals for PX, by state | All US deadlines for hospital vaccinations in 1 place | 11 states' data on breakthrough COVID hospitalizations | 20 hospitals linked to most 'unnecessary' care | 10 systems' innovation investments

January 22, 2022

• Man charged with attempted murder of hospital workers | COVID cases down 5% this week: 11 CDC stats | Get rejected - together | How CEOs manage COVID-positive employees' return to work | Children's Colo. names mental health-in-chief

January 21, 2022

• Why don't hospitals just pay full-time nurses - not travels - more? | COVID hospitalizations flat in 1 state, up in 49 | Models hold good for omicron's January peak | HCA hit with antitrust suit | Care teams face suspicion from unvaccinated patients

January 20, 2022

• A pandemic task physicians dread | CMS vaccine rule back on in Texas | Houston hospital to reopen | Feinberg sticks with Cerner | Delta lingers in 6 states | 5 CEO exits | Long COVID and the labor shortage | Mayo network nurses want staffing solutions

January 19, 2022

• Omicron riskier for young people | Fla. hospitals encourage staff vaccination amid penalty paradox | UCSF Health names CEO | Viewpoint: To combat COVID, US must think less like physicians | When to expect free N95s, at-home tests | 10 health tech threats

January 18, 2022

• 3 COVID forecasts for the week | Fla., Calif. hospitals see COVID admissions double | Payroll problems persist | 81% of ICU beds full: Nos. by state | Cleveland Clinic, HCA restore vaccination deadlines | 20 hospitals linked to most 'unnecessary' care

January 16, 2022

• 28 executive moves | Healthcare workers want off this COVID ride | Where hospitals expect critical staff shortages: Nos. by state | 8 hospitals laying off workers | 29 best healthcare jobs + 4 best hospitals to work

January 15, 2022

• CMS: Hospital staff in 24 states have 59 days to get vaccinated | COVID deaths up 37% this week: 11 CDC stats | What hospital data shows about 'flurona' | Ill. hospital closes | Mercy shakes up leadership | PA, resident rules relaxed in Mass.

January 14, 2022

• 83% of ICU beds full: Nos. by state | Fla. hospitals get mixed messages on vaccine rule | Wash. hospitals told to halt surgeries | The trouble with 'mild' | 17% of hospitals critically understaffed | 8 layoffs

January 13, 2022

• Hospitals' plea to patients: be kind | CDC leaves mask guidance as-is | 9 CEO moves | SCOTUS keeps hospitals waiting on vaccine rule | Morgan Health, Kaiser partner | Blood shortage forces LA hospital to pause care | Texas hospital loses Medicare contract

January 12, 2022

• Healthcare workers can't get off the COVID ride | Omicron spread, severity: 2 new findings | Healthcare's best places to work + top-paying jobs | Travel nurses to face tighter rules in Calif. | 8 executive resignations

January 11, 2022

• COVID hospitalizations hit new high: Nos. by state | The limits of incidental hospitalizations | 13 hospitals curbing care due to staff shortages | 29 best healthcare jobs | HHS head: CDC director 'doesn't have degree in marketing'

January 10, 2022

• For Midwest, worst of omicron to come: 5 forecasts | Nurses slam new return-to-work rules in Calif. | 14 states see COVID hospitalizations double to quadruple | Ill. hospital closes | Hospitals with critical staff shortages: Nos. by state

January 9, 2022

• Short-staffed hospitals halting services | 10 hospitals with highest contract labor expenses | 49 executive moves | 4 early findings on omicron symptoms | CMS asks 98 hospitals for price-posting plans | Rural hospitals struggle to match Walmart pay

January 8, 2022

• The unapologetic leadership of Dr. Marc Boom | COVID hospitalizations up 60% in 1 week: 9 CDC stats | Kaiser workers plan strike | CMS' vaccine rule and SCOTUS: 10 takeaways from oral arguments | More states mandate boosters for hospital staff

January 7, 2022

• Hospitals in 25 states await SCOTUS today on vaccine rule | W.Va. wants to get 4th doses in arms | Universal healthcare on the table in Calif. | 19% of US hospitals critically understaffed: Nos. by state | Top physician leaves Mission Health

January 6, 2022

• Rapid, but reliable? Home tests lag with omicron | More hospitals discourage cloth masks | 11 hospitals scaling back care over staff shortages | Booster rates by state | 43 executive moves | WHO not concerned by new variant in France

January 5, 2022

• Scrutiny falls on hospitalizations for COVID vs. with COVID | Hospitals left with questions on CMS' vaccine rule | Omicron surge may peak in January, models show | 13 systems with strong finances | Mayo to lose 1% of staff over vaccination status

January 4, 2022

• Where hospitals are critically short on staff | People with omicron admitted less, have shorter LOS: 6 early US findings | Longest nurses strike in Mass. history ends | NY hospitals asked for more detailed COVID data

January 3, 2022

• COVID hospitalizations up in 34 states | CMS sets vaccination deadline for hospitals in 25 states | Pa. hospital closes | Ill. hospitals urged to delay surgeries | Some Americans get 4th COVID shots

January 2, 2022

• Michael Dowling's call for decency | 3,000 Cleveland Clinic workers sidelined by COVID | Hospitals in 21 states expect critical staff shortages this week | 5 states most people moved to, left in pandemic | No Surprises Act in effect: 9 takeaways

December 30, 2021

• COVID hospitalizations up in 29 states | Mayo: No more cloth masks, please | Booster rates by state | No Surprises Act takes effect Jan. 1: 9 things to know | Flu rebounds | NIH hospital delays surgeries as COVID sidelines staff

December 29, 2021

• 16 states where hospitals face critical staff shortages | CDC trims omicron count | Ill. hospital loses Medicare contract | COVID hospitalizations by state | Md. hospitals want public health emergency restored | Cleveland Clinic further delays surgeries

December 28, 2021

• Physicians are concerned about omicron's paradox | Nurses object to CDC's revised isolation guidelines | Some Md. hospitals activate crisis standards | Booster rates by state | Dr. Ashish Jha: Time to focus on COVID hospitalizations, not cases

December 27, 2021

• Nurse bullying persists | LifePoint launches new co. | 99 CEO changes in 2021 | The less-discussed effect of understaffed hospitals | RN + NP salaries, state by state | Where nonprofit hospitals report lowest expenses | 7 thoughts on great leadership

December 23, 2021

• 10 states projected to be hit hardest by COVID on New Year's Eve | US cases pass summer peak | Supreme Court to take up Biden's vaccine rules | Tenet closes $1.1B surgery center deal | 6 CEO moves | Positivity rates and hospitalizations: Nos. by state

December 22, 2021

• US may update isolation guidelines for healthcare pros | Calif. to require boosters for hospital staff | Cloth masks might be knives in omicron's gunfight | Where new cases are up, down + flat | Booster rates by state | Physicians sue Envision

December 21, 2021

• Booster rates by state | Omicron makes up 73% of US cases | Biden's plan to fight omicron: 5 notes | Union claims OSU Wexner prioritizes travel nurses over employees | Mayo faces pressure to scrap vaccine rule | Determinants of Oracle-Cerner deal success

December 20, 2021

• Top epidemiologist expects 'viral blizzard' by Feb. | Oracle to buy Cerner for $28B | Rapid tests out of stock as physicians urge use before gatherings | Dr. Ashish Jha's mental framework for omicron | Mass. nurses reach tentative deal to end 9-mo. strike

December 19, 2021

• 18 executive moves | 10 best, worst cities for physician pay | 2 in 5 nurses want out by 2023 | State-by-state breakdown of $9B in provider aid | Where COVID hospitalizations cost most, least | 7 hospitals hiring CEOs

December 18, 2021

• 10 states projected to be hit hardest by COVID on Christmas | Oracle nears deal to buy Cerner | DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow CMS vaccine rule | 4 states set COVID case records this week | Cleveland Clinic extends surgery pause | 56 CEO retirements

December 17, 2021

• COVID deaths up 8% in 1 week: 8 CDC stats to know | States turn to National Guard for hospital staffing help | Md. delays nonurgent surgeries | Breakthrough cases will be 'new normal,' expert says | 4 CIOs on missed opportunities Inbox

December 16, 2021

• For 26 states, CMS vaccine rule for healthcare workers back in play | Fauci: We need universal COVID vaccines now | 6 CEO moves | Md. hospitals prep for limited surgeries | Vaccinations down in 33 states | Amazon sticks Prime leader on healthcare

December 15, 2021

• Omicron spread + symptoms: WHO, CDC updates | Texas hospital's unheard, unheeded alarms risk Medicare contract | JPMorgan healthcare event raises Qs | HHS sends $9B to providers | 17 systems halting vaccination mandates | Leapfrog's 46 top hospitals

December 14, 2021

• Omicron makes up 3% of new US cases | Supreme Court lets NY vaccine rule for healthcare staff stand | Centene CEO to retire | Pfizer says antiviral pill should work against omicron | Pa. hospital workers vote to strike

December 13, 2021

• 9 Minn. hospital CEOs sound alarm over COVID surge | Why 10 hospitals closed | Mass General Brigham posts $3.2B net gain | CHS director dies | 16 hospitals, systems suspending vaccine rules | Man charged in $38M UnitedHealth, BCBS false claims scheme

December 12, 2021

• 24 executive moves | 10 latest hospital closures | The most memorable advice 12 healthcare leaders have received | 17 CEO + CFO job openings | 5 highest-paying physician specialties | 11 systems pausing elective surgeries in Dec.

December 11, 2021

• COVID cases jump 37% in 1 week | Mass General Brigham CEO: Capacity crisis to continue | Omicron mild so far, CDC says | Calif. hospital files for bankruptcy, will lay off 677 | 15 hospitals, systems pause vaccination mandates

December 10, 2021

• 6 states set COVID records | Tower to close 2 hospitals | 8 called-off hospital deals | Omicron's spread + US strategy: 5 things to know | Ky. declares emergency over nurse shortage | Why Cleveland Clinic Fla. CEO rarely needs to recharge

December 9, 2021

• Cleveland Clinic + 10 systems delay surgeries | 9 hospitals laying off workers | Geisinger shifts to 'waiting-room medicine' | Memorial Sloan Kettering CMO got $1.9M payout after exit | 8 CEO moves | Mayo network adds 2 hospitals in China

December 8, 2021

• 6 states tied to 60% of COVID hospitalizations | The healthiest, unhealthiest states | Calif. hospital CEO resigns | NewYork-Presbyterian CXO: We're in a patient experience crisis | 23 top rural hospitals | Gen Z most stressed by COVID

December 7, 2021

• 5 states set COVID records | 30+ NY hospitals to halt elective surgeries | Trinity doubles operating income | 72 top teaching hospitals, state by state | Calif. hospital plans 677 layoffs | Detroit Med Center closes kidney transplant program

December 6, 2021

• Calif. hospital files for bankruptcy | 13 hospitals, systems halt vaccine rules | Omicron may be less severe than delta | 5 highest-paying physician specialties | NYC to mandate vaccination for private companies | How Cleveland Clinic saved $133M

December 5, 2021

• 33 executive moves | 10 hospitals, systems halt vaccination mandates | Telehealth visits up 63-fold amid pandemic | 73 hospital closures, state by state | Tight marketing budget? 7 executives share advice | 5 ways to keep temporary RNs engaged

December 4, 2021

• Omicron may spread 2X faster than delta | CMS pauses enforcement of vaccination rule | Walgreens' vision for primary care | Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth, University Hospitals delay surgeries amid surge | Medicare payment rule perplexes Supreme Court

December 3, 2021

• 9 hospitals, systems halt vaccination mandates | Omicron variant detected in 5 states | Providence, Tenet leadership moves | 73 hospital closures, state by state | Texas hospital inks $18.2M false claims settlement | CVS, Microsoft partner

December 2, 2021

• Biden's COVID plan for winter | NY systems shake up leadership | HHS appeals halt to healthcare worker vaccine rule | Intermountain CIO to depart | 5 systems suspend vaccination mandates | HCA hospital keeps Medicare contract after corrections

December 1, 2021

• Healthcare worker vaccine rule blocked nationwide | The worst COVID hot spots in the US | 9 systems with strong finances | Fox Chase Cancer Center CEO steps down + 5 CEO moves | Prime makes offer to save Calif. hospital

November 30, 2021

• Judge blocks vaccine rule for healthcare workers in 10 states | HCA to add 3 hospitals | MetroHealth CEO to retire | CDC strengthens COVID booster recommendation | Medicare payment rule baffles Supreme Court | Viewpoint: It's time to nix IT departments

November 29, 2021

• Omicron variant cases spread: 10 things to know Monday | 5 hospital exec resignations | Mich. COVID surge intensifies | UnitedHealth names CMO | Inova to invest $1B in new campus | Ex-Calif. hospital execs must face charges

November 28, 2021

• PA, NP and RN salaries, state by state | 19 hospital execs on cringeworthy IT talk | 20 most cost-efficient systems | 11 healthcare execs nearing retirement | 7 thoughts on great leadership | 15 best places to call it a career

November 27, 2021

• The less-discussed effect of short-staffed hospitals | Avg. salaries for 20 specialties | Mercyhealth moves to end inpatient care at Ill. hospital | Cleveland Clinic's Q3 income: $148M | Google workers fight vaccine mandate | Great teams don't just happen

November 26, 2021

• 5 CEO moves | NH sees record COVID hospitalizations | UPMC's income rises to $1.2B through Q3 | Bezos family gifts NY Langone $166M | Why Cleveland systems differed on vaccination policies | Viewpoint: Don't demonize healthcare execs over profits

November 24, 2021

• Houston hospital set to lose Medicare contract | Mass. hospitals ordered to scale back surgeries | Holiday COVID numbers in 2020 v. today | Feds ask court to reinstate vaccine-or-test rule for businesses | HCA beats billing fraud claims

November 23, 2021

• Judge rejects Fla. bid to block CMS vaccine rule | COVID cases up in 28 states | Mich. hospital staff OK strike amid COVID surge | Calif. hospitals struggle with transfers | Athenahealth to be acquired for $17B | Telehealth faces pivotal decisions

November 22, 2021

• Fauci's holiday guidance as COVID cases climb | Unvaccinated Ascension Fla. workers can return to work | COVID cases hit 7-mo. high in NY | Calif. hospital CEO takes pay cut | Global supply chain problems show signs of easing

November 21, 2021

• 34 executive moves | 20 most cost-efficient health systems | Vaccine-driven turnover at 39 systems | 50 top cardiovascular hospitals | Hospital M&A update: 10 recent deals | The cost of gun violence in the US, by the numbers

November 20, 2021

• COVID cases up 16% in 1 week | CoxHealth CEO to retire | Mayo's operating income doubles | Calif. hospital to lay off 328 | House's $1.7T spending bill: 6 healthcare takeaways | Will the definition of 'fully vaccinated' change?

November 19, 2021

• The worst COVID hot spot in US | FDA greenlights Pfizer, Moderna boosters for all adults | UPMC workers stage one-day walkout | CVS to close 900 stores over 3 years | NY hospital closes beds amid nurse shortage

November 18, 2021

• Kaiser preps for sympathy strike | 30% of healthcare workers unvaccinated | CommonSpirit eyes sale of 14 hospitals | Lawmakers urge Biden to probe staffing agency prices | Will definition of 'fully vaccinated' change? | COVID + flu coinfection: 7 notes

November 17, 2021

• 2 Kaiser hospitals divert ambulances amid strike | Calif. hospital expedites ED closure | COVID cases up in 29 states | HCA to open Va. nursing school | 7 CEO moves | CommonSpirit quarterly revenue tops $8.5B | Ex-Sanford CEO got $49M payout after exit

November 16, 2021

• 22 states challenging CMS' vaccine mandate | 50 top cardiovascular hospitals | Biden signs $1.2T infrastructure bill: 5 healthcare notes | Amazon Care's new customer: Hilton | 20 most cost-efficient systems | Where labor negotiations stand at Kaiser

November 15, 2021

• COVID makes spotty resurgence | Kaiser, unions avert strike | Houston Methodist suspends physician over tweets | Hackensack Meridian Health CEO: Lessons on a successful vaccine mandate | 14.5% Medicare Part B premium hike: 7 things to know

November 14, 2021

• 27 executive moves | 8 hospitals scaling back care | 23 straight-'A' hospitals: Leapfrog | 100 of the largest hospitals, systems in America | How 12 CIOs are easing clinicians' EHR burnout | 20 CEO + CFO job opportunities

November 13, 2021

• Quiet down, judge orders striking hospital workers | Cleveland Clinic mandates vaccines | 8 hospital layoffs | Pharmacy misdosed 112 kids' vaccines | The art of the second opinion | The health needs that have Chicago hospitals most concerned

November 12, 2021

• Southwest faces COVID surge: 6 things to know | NM hospitals enact crisis standards | What's behind unwinding hospital deals? | UPMC CEO Leslie Davis welcomes conflicting opinions | 100 of the largest hospitals, systems

November 11, 2021

• 10 states challenge vaccination rule for healthcare staff | HCA mandates vaccines | Mich. COVID hospitalizations hit 6-mo. high | COVID picks up in Midwest: Snapshot of 4 states | 7 CEO moves | Walmart heir wants to reform healthcare

November 10, 2021

• Colo. restores crisis standards of care | UPMC makes leadership changes | Mich. system scales back care amid COVID surge | 41 'F' and straight-'A' hospitals: Leapfrog | Feds probe Oak Street Health | CHS doesn't expect ER volumes to fully rebound

November 9, 2021

• Calif. sees low booster demand, rise in hospitalizations | Tenet strikes $1.2B surgery center deal | 10 most cost-efficient hospitals | Sutter workers to strike again | 25 AGs want NJ hospital deal blocked | 45 nations pledge to curb hospitals' emissions

November 8, 2021

• Biden's vaccine mandate halted | COVID worsens in Colo. | Kaiser net income falls | Medical group cuts ties with Aaron Rodgers | 5,400-physician network to unwind in Mich. | Gottlieb: 'We're close to the end of pandemic phase'

November 7, 2021

• 23 executive moves | CMS vaccination rule: 6 questions, answered | Vaccine-driven turnover at 36 systems | 20 CEO + CFO job opportunities | 26 hospitals' most important change to address burnout | CMS' 3 final rules: 12 things to know

November 6, 2021

• States sue over fed'l vaccine rule | UPMC workers to strike | Kaiser backs 'hospital at home' amid nurse criticism | Calif. hospital to end acute care | CommonSpirit's Lloyd Dean on the rising stakes CEOs face | States ranked by healthcare affordability

November 5, 2021

• Nurses slam 'hospital at home' | CMS vaccination rule: 6 questions, answered | 30,000+ Kaiser workers plan Nov. 15 strike | Pfizer: Pill cut COVID hospitalization, death 89% | With 12 mouse clicks, physician tied to misinformation renews license

November 4, 2021

• Hospital staff have 61 days to get vaccinated: CMS | 36 systems' vaccine-driven turnover | Hospitals back UPMC in fight with feds | CommonSpirit's Lloyd Dean on the rising stakes CEOs face | 6 CEO moves | States ranked by healthcare affordability

November 3, 2021

• CMS' 3 final payment rules: 12 takeaways | Vaccinations up in 45 states | Healthcare poised for trust erosion | Walmart hires Ochsner EVP | 7 execs on the severity of their system's supply chain woes | Steward, Emory, Providence + 5 systems seeking CQOs

November 2, 2021

• COVID hospitalizations hit 2021 high in Colo. | Biden's vaccination mandates move forward | More Kaiser workers OK strike | CommonSpirit aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2040 | Tower to lay off 293 | Hospital sued for identifying unvaccinated workers

November 1, 2021

• CEO resigns from Calif. hospitals | Suspicious fire destroys Ohio nurses' HQ | 11 systems with strong finances | NY system halts strikers' health benefits | Board removes Erlanger physician from leadership | Why are retirees delaying Social Security?

October 31, 2021

• 24 executive moves | 39 hospitals hit with max readmission penalties | Vaccine-driven turnover at 33 systems | What 'digital transformation' means to 10 leaders | 10 CEO + CFO job opportunities | 7 Epic updates | 15 fastest-growing healthcare cos.

October 30, 2021

• Tensions flare at NY hospital amid strike | How CHS, HCA, Tenet and UHS fared in Q3 | Curveballs the newly retired face | Mayo's CNO on the odds of nurses' post-pandemic return | 5 big ideas in healthcare innovation

October 29, 2021

• You've got a team, but is it great? | Fla. hospital to end inpatient care | More Kaiser workers authorize strike | AMA susses out problematic, divisive words in healthcare | UnitedHealthcare sues TeamHealth | 15 fastest-growing healthcare cos.

October 28, 2021

• 2,499 hospitals dinged for high readmissions | CHS sees profit rise | Northwell to launch AI tools | 9 CEO moves | Chicago hospital averts strike | Ballad CEO: Nurse agencies 'distorting' labor market | Henry Ford names CNO

October 27, 2021

• As the pandemic wanes, how do we talk about it? | DOJ: Kaiser defrauded Medicare of $1B | Adventist Health names CEO | $26.8B of pandemic relief sits untouched | Vaccinations up in 28 states | Former Novant SVP wins $10M in discrimination case

October 26, 2021

• COVID budges toward endemic in NYC | HCA names clinical chief | Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth up nurse incentive pay | FTC gets stricter on healthcare M&A | Average PA salary by state | Vaccine mandates spark new questions in C-level job interviews

October 25, 2021

• Employers ask Biden to delay vaccine mandate | COVID cases up in 3 states | Mark Cuban's drug co. to launch PBM | RN salary by state | 5 latest hospital M&A deals | Tenet CEO responds to lawmakers | A case for 3-year med school

October 24, 2021

• 16 executive moves | COVID hospitalizations fall 10% in 1 week: 9 stats to know | What CEOs think of the Great Resignation | 3 overhyped trends CIOs want to ignore | 10 hospitals scaling back care | The average COVID hospitalization charge by state

October 23, 2021

• Median COVID reinfection time is 16 mos. for unvaccinated | Stop the generational clichés: Viewpoint | The basics: Who can get a booster and when | Northwell CFO's litmus tests for partnerships | Allina CEO Dr. Penny Wheeler on retirement, rebuilding

October 22, 2021

• HCA triples profit | Delta subtype found in US | Ascension, AdventHealth to split | UPMC sued over exemptions for students to go mask-free | Vaccine hesitancy: states ranked | The matters that call for face-to-face conversation, per 6 hospital CEOs

October 21, 2021

• 5 CEO moves | The area still grappling with COVID | Tenet CEO urged to show face, end strike | Epic defends DEI work | M&A delays: What execs should know | Texas nurse found guilty of killing 4 patients | Perks that woo in the Great Resignation

October 20, 2021

• COVID cases up in 15 states, down in 31, flat in 4 | Kaiser workers fight new wage system | Northwell, Providence tap physician execs | Vaccination plan for young kids: 9 notes | Sanford's CEO opts for a lean team | CNOs on allaying travel staff tensions

October 19, 2021

• Where will unvaccinated, jobless healthcare pros go? | 15 best places to retire | Colin Powell's death spurs confusion about vaccine efficacy | Hospitalized COVID patients could owe thousands | The discontent behind 'Striketober'

October 18, 2021

• COVID hospitalizations climb in 4 states | Allina curbs care amid strike | Breakthrough cases by vaccine type: 5 things to know | The problem with scrubs | Union to pay striking Catholic Health workers | CVS names chief health equity officer

October 17, 2021

• 26 executive moves | COVID cases fall for 4th week: 9 stats | 3 essentials for health system CEOs today: AdventHealth's Terry Shaw | 10 execs on their systems' best innovation projects | 4 latest hospital bankruptcies | 12 systems opening hospitals

October 16, 2021

• Healthcare may see 'Great Retirement,' too | CDC updates holiday guidance: 8 notes | The cost of nurse turnover | Calif. hospital workers walk out | PE firms acquire 1,100-physician network | 11 fastest growing healthcare jobs

October 15, 2021

• Hospitals still face COVID surges: 5 updates from hard-hit states | COVID test kits recalled | Tenet hospital makes 'last, best offer' as nurse strike tops 7 mos. | CMS asks 32 hospitals for price-posting plan | Payers lean into virtual-first plans

October 14, 2021

• Agency staffing hospital amid strike is unlicensed: NY AG | Jefferson CEO Dr. Stephen Klasko to retire | 10 CEO moves | UnitedHealth Q3 revenue tops $72B | Mayo, Kaiser start hospital-at-home alliance | UPMC defends surgery practices

October 13, 2021

• Unvaccinated healthcare workers demand jobs back in Texas | EHRs can predict physician exits | The daily hazard proving untenable in hospitals + strategies to curb it | Vaccinations down in 38 states | Mayo plans $400M expansion

October 12, 2021

• CommonSpirit CEO Lloyd Dean to retire | COVID-19 then, now and what could be next: 9 points | Healthcare has lost 524,000 workers since 2020 | 11 hospital closures | Texas bans vaccine mandates | Dana-Farber changes board rules, 2 trustees resign

October 11, 2021

• Kaiser workers authorize strike | Hospitals still face COVID surges in 3 states | Mount Sinai creates AI department | Mayo names chief administrative officer | Former healthcare exec sentenced for $59M fraud | 1 in 5 physicians has considered quitting

October 10, 2021

• 19 executive moves | Vaccine-driven turnover at 25 systems | 15 richest people in healthcare | 7 thoughts on great leadership | Hospital M&A: 13 deals by the numbers | The mottos behind the marketing of 9 systems

October 9, 2021

• COVID vaccinations up 30% in 1 week: 9 stats to know | Ascension, AdventHealth add hospitals | Ind. hospital's EHR back 10 days after ransomware hit | Time to step it up from cloth masks, experts say | Pa. hospital makes security changes after shooting

October 8, 2021

• Northwell CEO: Vaccination mandates work | COVID hospitalizations fall to pre-delta levels in some states | Minn. down to 11 open pediatric beds | 10 systems with most improved brands | Why 11 hospitals were hit with credit downgrades

October 7, 2021

• 7 CEO moves | Pfizer asks FDA to authorize COVID vaccine for younger kids | Mass. orders striking Tenet nurses to pay back unemployment | HCA sells 5 Ga. hospitals | How COVID cases, hospitalizations are trending: 9 things to know

October 6, 2021

• At Henry Ford, 400 unvaccinated workers quit | Kaiser suspends 2,200 staff | UCHealth: No transplants for most unvaccinated patients | Suspect in hospital shooting charged | Time to step it up from cloth masks, experts say

October 5, 2021

• 1,400 unvaccinated Northwell staff quit, fired | 10 states with largest COVID case gains | Jefferson Health mourns nursing assistant killed by coworker | UnitedHealthcare, Anthem payments lag | Ransomware hit took just 2 minutes, Ind. system says

October 4, 2021

• Police: Pa. hospital employee shot, killed co-worker | Sutter workers begin strike | Trinity revenue hits $20B | 256 hospitals get CMS warning over undisclosed prices | Ransomware shuts down Ind. system's IT | BCBS, Mount Sinai aim to curb ER visits

October 3, 2021

• 21 executive moves | COVID cases, deaths fall in US: 9 stats | Pharmacist salary, state by state | Telehealth providers ranked by 4,676 patients | 12 hospital marketing execs on their favorite campaign

October 2, 2021

• The less-discussed consequence of short-staffed hospitals | Vaccine-driven turnover at 20 systems | Dr. David Feinberg mandates vaccinations at Cerner | Computer files foreign to Gen Z | How to navigate the 'Great Resignation'

October 1, 2021

• Merck's antiviral pill cuts COVID hospitalizations | NY hospital workers start strike | Calif. vaccination mandate: Early results | Why RWJBarnabas fired 4 execs | Hospital builds condos to retain staff | Patient death tied to ransomware, suit claims

September 30, 2021

• Tenet CEO called to show up, end nurses strike | CDC expects first decline in COVID deaths since June | 4 CEO moves | Patients want their oncologist back, use billboards to show it | Walmart Health struggles to bill | 7 big ideas in healthcare innovation

September 29, 2021

• Vaccinations up in 18 states | Mayo hires UCSF's superstar fundraiser | CEO, COO exits cue unease at Colo. system | Cleveland Clinic braces for COVID peak | NY hospital curbs care ahead of strike | CHS to open Ind. hospital

September 28, 2021

• 10 states with steepest COVID surges | Pa. hospital to close | NY's vaccine mandate: Early results are in | Walmart picks Epic | Summa to close 121 beds | Shutdown would furlough 43% of HHS | Digital front door: What the buzzword means to 25+ providers

September 27, 2021

• US COVID cases fall: 9 stats to know | Delta continues to strain hospital finances | NY sets staff shortage plan for hospitals | FTC wants more info on Beaumont, Spectrum merger | How Epic can verify vaccination status

September 26, 2021

• 22 executive moves | Top 5 hospitals in the world for 10 specialties: Newsweek | 8 things to know about upcoming flu season | RN salary, state by state | How 10 health systems are spending innovation dollars | 9 hospital layoffs

September 25, 2021

• What changed a hospital CEO's mind about vaccinations | 5 things to know about #TheREALNursingShortage | Providence's CFO on the skills financial chiefs need to thrive | How 20 top hospitals stack up for digital patient access | 102 hospital CIOs to know

September 24, 2021

• Looming vaccination deadline has NY hospitals prepping for staff shortages | 9 hospitals laying off workers | CMO resigns from Calif. hospital after 18 mos. | 9 hospital innovation execs name investment red flags | Adventist names CXO

September 23, 2021

• Surgery delays cost more than dollars | 11 CEO moves | Pfizer boosters for healthcare workers: 5 notes | 30 Ala. hospitals at risk of closure | HCA's CMO to lead Joint Commission | Ascension's tech arm to trim 330 more jobs | La. hospital reopens

September 22, 2021

• Yale New Haven could lose 700 unvaccinated staff | Vaccinations up in 26 states | Nearly 100 UNC staff quit, reject jobs over vaccine rule | AHA slams Lown rankings as 'arbitrary' | Physician who links vaccines to magnetism keeps license

September 21, 2021

• 10 states with steepest COVID surges | Travel nurses bring gig mindset to profession | Hospitals to lose $54B this year | Catholic Health workers set strike date | Novant suspends unvaccinated staff | 40 most socially responsible, cost efficient hospitals

September 20, 2021

• Physician tied to misinformation loses license | Ascension bounces back with $5.7B income | How a Wharton negotiation expert would reach the willfully unvaccinated | Ballad CEO: Risk of losing nurses outweighs risk of unvaccinated | CVS to hire 25,000

September 19, 2021

• 33 exec moves | Vaccine mandates spur employee exits at 7 systems | NP salary by state: Calif. No. 1 at $145,970 | 50 largest public hospitals | US COVID cases up after week of decline: 9 CDC stats | 9 systems opening hospitals

September 18, 2021

• 2 Ky. systems fire staff who refuse vaccination | CommonSpirit rebounds to $998M operating income | CDC will spend $2.1B to curb infections | FDA panel rejects Pfizer booster for general public | Banner names COO | Quorum to sell NC hospital

September 17, 2021

• Detroit Med Center CEO resigns | 125 unvaccinated employees leave IU Health | Kaiser, CHOP leaders meet with Biden | Mont. hospital enacts crisis standards of care | 3 fastest-growing healthcare jobs | 10 hospitals hiring VPs

September 16, 2021

• Intermountain, SCL to merge | Tenure gaps grow wider in hospitals | 13 CEO moves | Crisis standards of care now statewide in Idaho | Beaumont closes 180 beds | More systems pause surgeries | HCA names chief nurse

September 15, 2021

• Prove it, hospital asks unvaccinated employees claiming religious exemption | Vaccinations down in 38 states | Spectrum workers with immunity carved out of vaccine rule | DOJ will combat 'killer' M&A | Calif. healthcare workers vote to strike

September 14, 2021

• Labor shortage fallout: Texas hospital nears closure, Henry Ford reduces beds, NY hospital sees resignations en masse | Physicians linked to misinformation still licensed despite boards' warnings | Telehealth firms push ivermectin

September 13, 2021

• Vaccine mandates have hospitals worried | CMS' new billing, financial disclosure rules: 7 takeaways | 6 best BSN programs, per US News | Idaho COVID surge overflows into Wash. hospitals | 7 questions with Trinity Health CEO Mike Slubowski

September 12, 2021

• 19 executive moves | 10 fastest, slowest states for pandemic recovery | After 1 day, nurses quit Calif. hospital | How 3 CIOs are spending their cybersecurity budgets | 13 commonly misused words | How your state ranks for worker protections

September 11, 2021

• HHS to release $25B+ in relief to hospitals | NY system to halt maternity care after resignations over vaccine mandate | US COVID cases fall for first time since late June | Mo. system CEO to resign | Intermountain pauses surgeries at 13 hospitals

September 10, 2021

• COVID shots for 17M healthcare workers under Biden's new mandate: 9 notes | Mu unlikely to replace delta in dominance | Best, worst states to work in | WVU Medicine seeks to fill 2,700 jobs | Md. hospital CEO steps down | 15 hospitals scaling back care

September 9, 2021

• 7 CEO moves | Piedmont, MaineHealth, Prisma + more systems halt surgeries | Ill. systems to merge | Ransomware wipes out Ariz. clinic's EHR | CON law changed in NC | One physician's case for refusing to treat unvaccinated patients

September 8, 2021

• QAnon followers target Chicago hospital over ivermectin | Vaccinations down in 32 states | Crisis standards of care activated in Idaho | Unvaccinated PeaceHealth workers put on leave | Ballad Health: Don't visit ER for COVID tests

September 7, 2021

• 10 states with steepest COVID case surges | In reversal, Ohio hospital can't be forced to provide ivermectin | Hospitals want HHS to release $52.5B of untouched relief | Travel nurses promptly quit Calif. hospital over EHR | 8 financially strong systems

September 5, 2021

• 25 executive moves | Providence aims to rapidly fill 17,000 jobs | Number of adults who oppose COVID vaccine at new low | 67 financial benchmarks | NewYork-Presbyterian CXO: 7 principles for strong relationships in a transactional world

September 4, 2021

• COVID hospitalizations dip: 11 stats | How Dr. David Brown will lead Mass General | Viewpoint: Mocking the unvaccinated dead doesn't save anyone | Courts make the call on use of ivermectin | Some Pa. hospitals unsure which patients are vaccinated

September 3, 2021

• HAIs jump after years of steady decline | IU Health suspends unvaccinated workers | Feds sue UPMC | CEO of Chicago system to step down | Physicians from top systems on the drugs they use, avoid when treating COVID-19 | The cost of virtual meeting gaffes

September 2, 2021

• Healthcare workers face growing threats, harassment | COVID hospitalizations drop, deaths rise | OSU Wexner CEO stepping down | 50 states ranked from healthiest to unhealthiest | Nurse anesthetist salary by state | The latest surge in nurses' words

September 1, 2021

• CDC wants everyone to mask in public indoor spaces | Vaccinations up in 36 states, down in 14 | ER physicians: No ivermectin for COVID | Cleveland Clinic taps strategy chief | Tower Health shakes up leadership | Hospitals have a new ransomware threat

August 31, 2021

• Ivermectin prescriptions soar despite federal warnings | 10 states with steepest COVID case surges | Travel nurse pay — up to $8K a week — worsens shortages | Deficit of anesthesia providers halts surgeries at Ill. hospital

August 30, 2021

• Ida damages La. hospitals | US COVID deaths hit 6-mo. high | Viewpoint: We need to get real about the pandemic endgame | Top hospital employers in each state, per Forbes

August 29, 2021

• 22 exec moves | How 5 pharmacy execs are responding to worried vaccinated patients | Top 20 healthcare lobbyists | Anxiety, depression: States ranked | Dollar General's healthcare agenda: 8 points

August 28, 2021

• Staff shortages riskier than unvaccinated staff, some hospitals say | COVID hospitalizations hit 7-mo. high | NY cancer center makes 54 strategic hires in 1 year | Miss. grapples with nurse exodus

August 27, 2021

• Neb. hospitals ordered to curb surgeries | More states' COVID cases are missing | MUSC identifies delta mutation | Ascension settles discrimination claims | Fla. hospital removes physician who charged $50 for mask opt-outs

August 26, 2021

• Fla. sees pandemic high hospitalizations, deaths | Estimated cases of long COVID, state by state | 5 CEO moves | Mayo, Verily team up | Northwestern, Ochsner, Geisinger latest to mandate vaccination | Physicians see more critically ill pregnant women

August 25, 2021

• Hospitals are up against intensifying misinformation | Vaccinations up in 46 states, down in 4 | Vaccine efficacy fell in front-line workers as delta spread | 6 hospital layoffs | Ark. hospital CEO resigns | Nurse recruitment ad causes stir in Neb.

August 24, 2021

• 10 states with steepest COVID case surges | Physicians, White House urge employers to mandate vaccines | Protest planned at home of Ky. system CEO | Comirnaty? What's in the name for Pfizer's COVID vaccine | Ill. systems in talks to combine

August 23, 2021

• 'Hospitals are not in the blame business' | FDA approves Pfizer shot | Physicians can't tell COVID patients what variant they have | As schools reopen, children's hospitals brace for surges | How 100 hospital leaders sum up the staffing crisis

August 22, 2021

• 13 executive moves | Talking to someone with vaccine hesitancy? Do these 8 things | 10 states with the most for-profit hospitals | How Mayo, Allina + 6 systems decided on vaccine mandates | How 9 innovation execs say their role has changed

August 21, 2021

• Hospitals make job offers on the spot | Pregnant COVID patients alarm UAB leaders | RN hourly wage in 10 US metro areas | Scripps delays surgeries amid staff shortages | CDC booster shot review delayed | #GiveHerAReasonToStay campaign takes off

August 20, 2021

• US sees 2nd-highest daily COVID hospitalizations: 7 notes | Baylor Scott & White postpones surgeries | Cerner taps Dr. David Feinberg as CEO, Google to end health division | Mayo quadruples income | Protestors travel to harass pharmacists, hospital CEO

August 19, 2021

• As COVID strains every Tenn. hospital, assoc. pleads for vaccinations | 6 CEO moves | Nursing home group says vaccine mandate could drive staff exodus | When COVID surges, nurse shortages collide: How CNOs deal | Atrium, Wake Forest Baptist have new brand

August 18, 2021

• 7 states with COVID hospitalizations at all-time highs | HHS rolls out booster plan | 88% of nurses vaccinated: ANA | Ga. to send 2,800 workers to understaffed hospitals | National Guard tapped for hospitals in Tenn., Ore.

August 17, 2021

• As 30% of hospitals mandate vaccination for employment, for-profits hold off | 10 states with largest COVID case surges | HCA hospital's Medicare contract at risk | Kan. hospital CEO resigns | Anesthesiologists oppose nurse anesthetists' rebrand

August 16, 2021

• 3 knowns and unknowns in this 'messy' surge | Pediatric COVID hospitalizations at record high | Hospitals not yet fined for undisclosed prices | UMMC fits parking garage for ICU beds | IT down at Ohio system | UCLA, Inspira latest to mandate vaccination

August 15, 2021

• Delta behind more than 97% of US COVID cases: 10 stats to know | 14 executive moves | 9 financially strong systems | 5 Qs hospital CEOs want answered — and why | Cyberattack downtime can cost hospitals $47K an hour | 22% of Americans trust hospital execs

August 14, 2021

• Cancer surgeries, heart transplants on hold as 140+ UAB staff out with COVID-19 | Hospitalizations soar 900% in Tenn. in 6 weeks | Why some vaccination analogies fail | Viewpoint: Hybrid offices may leave some behind

August 13, 2021

• COVID-19 cases up 876% nationwide from June | CommonSpirit calls for vaccination of 150,000 workers | 68% of Fla. hospitals brace for critical staff shortages | FDA OKs boosters for immunocompromised | White House earmarks billions for rural hospitals

August 12, 2021

• Don't let 'elective' fool you, physicians urge | Miss. hospital CEO to governor: 'Where are you?' | 3 CEO moves | Texas to deploy 2,500 workers to help hospitals | Fla. system offers nurses $6K for 1 extra shift a week | Breakthrough cases, state by state

August 11, 2021

• COVID-19 cases peak in 3 states | 1.1M got COVID booster shots: CDC | HCA faces antitrust claims | Employees call for Seattle Children's leaders to resign | 111 stats on physician pay | Hospitals are $3,700-a-day hotels for patients in limbo, CMO contends

August 10, 2021

• Texas hospitals asked to halt elective surgeries | Vaccinations up in 40 states, down in 10 | COVID-19 admissions peak in Ark. | Vaccination required for Wash. healthcare workers | Average salaries for 20 specialties | Tenet's new CEO: 4 things to know

August 9, 2021

• COVID-19 cases hit 6-mo. high | People go to great lengths for unauthorized boosters | UF Health names CEO | Signing bonuses for 5 most-recruited specialties | Kaiser, Providence plan $1B hospital | Tenet hospital hires 100+ permanent nurses amid strike

August 8, 2021

• 16 executive moves | Average PA salary, state by state | 7 ways this surge is different | How 9 systems are hooking COVID-19 survivors up with vaccines | 10 best, worst states for healthcare | 19 key financial benchmarks for health systems

August 7, 2021

• Why aren't Cleveland Clinic, UPMC requiring vaccination? | NC lawmakers to hospital CEOs: Rethink your mandates | Ascension settles with feds over billing | Calif. hospital to open $1.5B campus | Fire shuts down Wash. hospital's EHR

August 6, 2021

• Calif. hospital workers have 55 days to get vaccinated under new order | Pediatric COVID cases up 84% in 1 week | Vanderbilt delays surgeries | Tenet hospital makes 'final' offer as nurse strike nears 5th mo. | AdventHealth to redevelop theme park

August 5, 2021

• Fla. hospitals need O2 | 7 CEO moves | Advocate Aurora joins 97 orgs mandating vaccines | 10 signs your board has a strong pulse | Ind. hospital on diversion after IT attack | NewYork-Presbyterian CXO: Is your team languishing? | NJ hospital deal halted

August 4, 2021

• 7 ways this surge is different | How Henry Ford manages dissent to its vaccine mandate | 8 exec resignations | Walmart names CMO | Baylor Scott & White demands physician stop using its name | 10 hospital M&A deals | What keeps Sanford's CEO up at night

August 3, 2021

• Kaiser Permanente joins 85 systems mandating vaccination | CMS' inpatient payment rule for 2022: 7 takeaways | HCA, Ascension sell hospitals | Vaccinations up in all 50 states | Hospitals' volume rebounds offset by delta, rising expenses

August 2, 2021

• COVID-19 hospitalizations peak in Fla. | Adventist CEO to depart | Epic mandates vaccinations | Tenet, LifePoint sell 8 hospitals | Mayo reinstates universal masking | Why physicians are worried about pediatric units

August 1, 2021

• 19 executive moves | Average RN salary, state by state | Tech trends that worry 10 hospital leaders most | 74 systems mandating vaccines for workers | 19 largest gifts to hospitals | 10 CEO + CFO job opportunities

July 31, 2021

• 74% infected in Mass. outbreak were vaccinated: CDC | DOJ joins lawsuits against Kaiser | Pa. hospital to lay off 110 | Okla., La. hospitals strained by pediatric lung virus | Big cos. may be eyeing your top physician

July 30, 2021

• Delta as contagious as chickenpox: CDC | CHOP, Baylor Scott & White latest to mandate vaccines | Physician vaccine misinformers could lose license | CMS finalizes 4 payment rules: 16 takeaways | 13 hospitals scaling back care

July 29, 2021

• Fla. sees record high COVID-19 admissions | 20 hospitals laying off workers | CHS profit falls | 6 CEO moves | Tenn. hospital's only physician lives there | Southern states lead COVID-19 positivity rates: Nos. by state

July 28, 2021

• UPMC names Jeffrey Romoff's successor | COVID-19 hospitalizations up in 47 states | Ascension mandates vaccinations | Tenet hospital curbs services amid strike | Epic pays hospitals that use its algorithms | Tech terms that make hospital execs cringe

July 27, 2021

• US News: 20 best hospitals + No. 1 by state | CDC to revise masking guidance | Mayo mandates vaccination | Pa. hospital to end inpatient care | Fla., La. hospitals pause surgeries | 10 states with largest COVID-19 case surges

July 26, 2021

• COVID-19 surge projected to peak in Oct. | UF Health Jacksonville CEO dies | CHS billing practices under fire | Baby booms hit some hospitals | Wyo. hospital leader resigns after 6 mos. | Why HIPAA is widely misunderstood

July 25, 2021

• 13 exec moves | 3 top Beaumont execs to depart | COVID-19 hospitalizations up 32% in US | Health Partners lays off 560 | 18 systems back Biden's $5B gun violence prevention plan | Breakthrough COVID-19 cases: 7 updates

July 23, 2021

• 3 states tied to 40% of COVID-19 cases | Ballad CEO: Vaccine mandate would cause staff shortage | Untreatable fungus found in DC, Texas | 14 hospital closures | $270K medical bill over 'birthday rule' inspires change | NY systems pause merger

July 22, 2021

• 3 top Beaumont execs to depart + 7 CEO moves | Hospitals scramble to make room for COVID-19 patients | Tenet posts $120M profit | NH hospital leader talks physician exodus | Breakthrough COVID-19 cases: 7 updates

July 21, 2021

• Banner joins 40 hospitals, groups mandating vaccines | COVID-19 hospitalizations up in 44 states | Tenn. hospital CEO steps down | 18 systems with strong finances | Rush names CIO | 25 top MBA programs | Why states want rigid licensing for telemedicine

July 20, 2021

• COVID-19 cases up 400% or more in 6 states | CMS floats outpatient payment rule: 7 things to know | Mich. nurses to strike | Kaiser workers plan protest | UnitedHealthcare CMO leaves for startup | 'Technical debt' catches up to CIOs

July 19, 2021

• COVID-19 cases up 69% in 1 week | Trinity, Henry Ford workers protest vaccine mandates; 35+ hospitals requiring shots | YouTube health exec wants hospital partners in misinformation fight | What Geisinger, Stanford think of new OSHA rules

July 18, 2021

• 21 exec moves | 7 hospital credit rating downgrades | 10 healthcare industry lawsuits, settlements | 7 thoughts on great leadership | UnitedHealth's Q2 profit slips 36% | Hospital talent crunch in 10 numbers

July 17, 2021

• WH sends 100-person team to Nev. amid COVID-19 surge | CoxHealth CEO doesn't think he'll lose job over viral tweets | 900 job openings at Mich. system | Kaiser CFO: Get comfortable with the uncomfortable

July 16, 2021

• HCA hospital loses 85% of PCPs | LA restores indoor masking | COVID-19 positivity, new cases by state | Hackensack Meridian joins 30+ requiring vaccination | 7 thoughts on great leadership | No one laughs during a colonoscopy: Execs on campaign imagery

July 15, 2021

• Mo. governor, Mercy execs clash | Fla. system halts surgeries | 8 CEO moves | Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai say no to Aduhelm | Surgeons balk at CMS' proposed payment rule | No, 'hospital' is not an acronym | St. Jude joins 30+ mandating vaccines

July 14, 2021

• Nurses want masks back on nationwide | COVID-19 hospitalizations up in 31 states | NY system CEO resigns | Epidemiologists push for vaccination as term of hospital employment | CMS pitches physician payment rule, wider telehealth reimbursement

July 13, 2021

• COVID-19 cases up in 47 states | Piedmont latest to mandate vaccines; MUSC fires 5 for noncompliance | 15 best + worst states for business | 10 executive retirements | Calif. hospitals push to delay 2030 seismic standards

July 12, 2021

• Hospitals knock Biden's EO | 'COVID' promo code center of lawsuit against CoxHealth, CEO | 10 hospitals with top-ranked community investments | USC nurses to strike for 2 days | Mo. hospitals take on rising COVID-19 volumes

July 11, 2021

• 30 executive moves | 7 things to know about the lambda variant | Healthcare workers sue Amazon | 20 hospitals seek CEOs + CFOs | Ready to negotiate with hackers? 10 things to know | CMS' payment rules for 2022: 21 notes

July 10, 2021

• Delta spreads 225% faster | COVID-19 cases up 16% + vaccinations down 54% | Hospital prices 'transparent as hieroglyphics' | OSHA gives hospitals more time to comment on new rule | NJ hospital CEO 'floored' by trauma funds

July 9, 2021

• 14 states poised to miss vaccination goal until 2022 | Biden's EO zeros in on healthcare competition: 10 notes | Trinity CEO ready to 'get on knees and beg' workers to get COVID-19 shots | Virtua nixes $1B campus plan | No boosters for now: CDC, FDA

July 8, 2021

• Trinity just mandated vaccines for staff at 91 hospitals | Delta cases double in 1 week at Houston Methodist | Biden eyes noncompetes | 9 CEO moves | Telehealth use continues fall | 15 best + worst states for retirement | La. med school put on probation

July 7, 2021

• COVID-19 hospitalizations up in 21 states | Nurse deficit strains CoxHealth in surge | Fla. hospitals brace for Elsa | RIP 'Uber of healthcare' | St. Vincent, nurses to resume talks | More hospitals mandate vaccines for workers

July 6, 2021

• COVID-19 cases up in 17 states | Timing of delta variant + July 4 stirs up concern | Striking Mass. nurses head to Tenet HQ with 16-ft. petition for execs | Union plans 'danger zones' at Sutter hospitals | Job board searches for 'hiring bonus' double

July 5, 2021

• Hospital CEO to vaccine misinformers: ‘Shut up’ | Mo. hospital out of ventilators amid COVID-19 surge | CMS unveils surprise-billing rule: 10 takeaways | Chicago system to hire 300 RNs | MD Anderson's CEO on balancing moon shots + small wins

July 3, 2021

• 17 executive moves | HHS: 130 systems exposing patients' images online | Can the coronavirus lie dormant and reinfect? The question researchers are exploring | 21 CMO, CNO job opportunities | 4 tips for an agitation-free rebrand

July 2, 2021

• 7 CEO moves | Houston Methodist chiefs: 7 steps to craft a vaccination policy | Top 25 communities for healthcare access | 'Weird summer' for labor market: 4 healthcare notes | Utah hospitals may have to delay surgeries

July 1, 2021

• Delta now most common strain; CDC says masking up to states | Baylor Scott & White CEO to retire | Lawmakers seek probe into Tenet's use of aid funds | Mich. nurses authorize strike | NY, Neb. hospitals end inpatient care | Nurse stabbed at Ala. hospital

June 30, 2021

• Mo. hospitals grapple with COVID-19 surge | Heat strains hospitals in Ore., Wash. | 25 healthiest communities in the US | 13 states skipped infection control surveys: OIG | Hackers post Las Vegas hospital data | Former Spectrum CFO balks at Beaumont deal

June 29, 2021

• Hospital CEO turnover hits a low: Churn rate by state | SSM, Henry Ford join 19 others requiring vaccines | COVID-19 cases up in 29 states; delta spurs new precautions in LA | Telehealth flexibility over in Fla. | An overwhelming summer for ERs

June 28, 2021

• Why is COVID-19 still slowing surgeries? | Ohio system employee snooped patient records for 11 years | As nurse strike nears 4th month, Tenet hospital has a new offer | Few Americans know hospitals are required to post prices

June 27, 2021

• 11 exec moves | 18 systems mandating vaccines for workers | Where 13 systems are investing innovation dollars | 23 system rebrands | 6 systems opening hospitals | 9 hospitals that mark up bills by 10x or more

June 26, 2021

• Ga. system offline for 8+ days after cyberattack | Houston Methodist offers nurses $15K sign-on bonus | Beaumont merger 'just makes sense,' Spectrum CEO says | Why this RI hospital may lose accreditation | 7 systems' most effective vaccine messages

June 25, 2021

• Low volumes force MercyOne hospital to close | US eyes major Medicaid expansion | Mass General seeks 1M patients' data in equity push | 'Leave to protect' policy shielded RI hospital exec from layoffs | What stops physicians from seeking mental healthcare

June 24, 2021

• Mass General Brigham mandates vaccines | Calif. system execs lose physicians' confidence | Ky. system sends 42K patients' info to wrong email | 5 CEO moves | COVID-19 hotspots emerge as vaccinations drop

June 23, 2021

• 153 staff exit Houston Methodist over vaccine mandate | Nurses' strike may delay surgeries at Chicago system | 10 financially strong systems | 'Delta plus' variant emerges | Google's 33 healthcare moves in past year

June 22, 2021

• Scripps sued over data breach | Spectrum-Beaumont merger faces opposition | 7 hospital layoffs + 21 exec resignations | Delta may spur COVID-19 surges by July | Mayo physician fired after penning book with confidential info.

June 21, 2021

• Hospitals ration blood, delay surgeries amid critical shortage | HCA trauma fees 10x higher than some rivals | Vaccines vs. CDC's variants of concern | UVM Health still tallying losses 8 mos. after cyberattack | NY hospitals must have staffing committees

June 20, 2021

• [By the numbers] 10 top-earning PA specialties | Avg. cash price of an ultrasound in each state | 12 ways to support nurses | 30 CEO, CFO + COO job opportunities | The 48 people ensuring fed'l policy sticks to science

June 19, 2021

• 19 exec moves | Chicago nurses, hospital workers to strike | Ochsner to take over 7-hospital system | Why 5 hospitals closed this year | How are hospital execs rolling out Aduhelm? | 15 defining words in healthcare | Ala. nurse fired over TikToks

June 18, 2021

• Fla. system CEO to retire | Physician stabbed by patient sues Penn Med | Hundreds in NY urged to revaccinate | Delta variant may have other symptoms | Vaccines required at these systems | Hospital-based surgery, radiology in UnitedHealth CMOs' crosshairs

June 17, 2021

• ACA holds | Beaumont, Spectrum to form 22-hospital system | HCA hospital votes out SEIU | 5 CEO moves | Google shrinks health team | Tenet to sell Fla. hospitals | NC providers declare mental health state of emergency

June 16, 2021

• CDC guidance for long COVID-19 is out | Execs leave NY system | Cases up in 9 states; Delta 'of concern' | 14 top-reviewed healthcare CEOs | UF Health computers still down | Hospitals choose penalty v. public prices | Houston Methodist workers file appeal

June 15, 2021

• 10 best children's hospitals: US News | Calif. lawmakers allege 'hostile management' at HCA hospital | Northwell intros medical debt ombudsman role | 23% of COVID-19 survivors left with at least 1 condition | NY system trims jobs

June 14, 2021

• As nat'l COVID-19 cases flatline, CDC urges vaccinations at discharge | Judge tosses Houston Methodist workers' challenge to vaccine mandate | Amazon opens Detroit health clinics | Cano primary care group buys Miami system for $600M

June 13, 2021

• 15 executive moves | A 2-sentence conversation: What to expect with this ransomware gang | 6 recent hospital deals | 20 smart hospitals | 17 states without surprise billing protections | Actions to mitigate the next health crisis, ranked by 73 experts

June 12, 2021

• COVID-19 + Alzheimer's-like dementia: Cleveland Clinic finds link | Fla. nursing school on probation | IU Health employees to protest vaccine mandate | Hospitals want UnitedHealthcare's ER scheme scrapped, not just delayed

June 11, 2021

• NewYork-Presbyterian mandates COVID-19 vaccination | Critics rebut hospital racial inclusivity ranking | CDC calls emergency meeting | Scripps CEO: What's needed to fight ransomware attacks | Ex-COO of Pa. system sentenced for embezzlement

June 10, 2021

• OSHA's new rules: Hospitals have 14 days to comply | UnitedHealthcare delays ER coverage plan | Rural hospitals may get paid to run as standalone ERs | 6 CEO moves | More systems mandate vaccines

June 9, 2021

• 20 'smartest' hospitals | Hospitals blast UnitedHealth ER strategy: 'Patients are not medical experts' | 0.7% of Houston Methodist employees missed vaccine deadline | Board for hospital using military RNs learned of staffing crisis from the news

June 8, 2021

• Nurse bullying persists | Sutter to lay off 400 | Vaccination or termination: Houston Methodist tallies workforce results | Ariz. system names CEO | Beaumont short on blood | Where the Tenet, MNA labor dispute stands 3 mos. in

June 7, 2021

• UnitedHealthcare may not cover ER care it deems nonemergent | Medical staff lose confidence in CHS hospital leaders | Walmart to push virtual care into 16 more states | PAs reply to rebrand dissent | Mich. nurses say staff, PPE still stretched

June 6, 2021

• 22 executive moves | How fully vaccinated is your state? All 50, ranked | 17 health systems Walmart prefers for employees | Where PAs do + don't have full authority | 25 CFO + CNO job opportunities | The most promising tech: 13 system execs define it

June 5, 2021

• After declaring emergency, Children's Colo. pleads for mental health funding | COVID-19 cases down 35% in a week | Physicians oppose PA rebrand | Texas hospital eases masking | Renown, UnitedHealthcare split

June 4, 2021

• Walmart prefers these 17 systems for employees | UF Health running on paper after IT attack | Likening ransomware to 9/11-level threat, gov't urges 6 actions | Ore. system struggles to fill 600 jobs | Children's Minn. nurses to picket over staffing

June 3, 2021

• AMA joins opposition to PA rebrand | NY hospital ends inpatient care | Healthcare lags in fastest-growing states | Sentara, Cone Health cancel merger | 7 CEO moves | Texas hospital files for bankruptcy | Biden's new vaccine strategy: 9 things to know

June 2, 2021

• Texas hospital eases masking | Okla. hospital closes | IU Health mandates vaccines | After sudden CEO exit, Fla. system has new chief | Scripps releases toll of ransomware attack | 15 hospitals hiring CNOs

June 1, 2021

• Houston Methodist employees sue over vaccine mandate | Biden's $6T budget: 7 healthcare takeaways | DOs oppose PA title change | COVID-19 cases at all-time low in US; WHO renames variants | 15 top-paid S&P 500 healthcare CEOs

May 30, 2021

• 26 hospital, system exec moves | 10 health systems with strong finances | Avoidable hospitalizations: States ranked | 15 health insurers members like most | 5 big ideas in healthcare innovation | Vaccine passports: 23 state bans, rules & green lights

May 29, 2021

• The most racially inclusive hospital in each state | 10 CEOs reshaping healthcare: Forbes | COVID-19 hospitalizations, positivity at record lows | Scripps' EHR back online | Mass. hospital warns of cuts | Cleveland Clinic names new innovation leader

May 28, 2021

• Ky. system mandates COVID-19 vaccines | PAs seek new title | Ascension took $1.9B pandemic hit | Chair quits NY hospital board, cites misalignment of ethics | Ore. hospital asks military for RNs amid staffing crisis

May 27, 2021

• Vying for nurses, hospitals go big with signing bonuses | 9 CEO moves | Physician pay grew most for these 6 specialties | USC workers OK strike | COVID-19 immunity may last years | Sentara-Cone merger faces dissent | Texas NP gets 20 years for fraud

May 26, 2021

• Suicide attempts put Children's Colo. in state of emergency | Google, HCA partner | 50% US adults fully vaccinated; WHO says no country 'out of the woods' | NY system to outsource 500 jobs | 5 best, worst states for physicians | Minn. hospital CEO resigns

May 25, 2021

• The 10 most, least racially inclusive hospitals | CDC releases more breakthrough COVID-19 data | There's no 'easy button': Scripps CEO on ransomware attack recovery | 10 financially strong systems | 3 UPMC hospitals get new names

May 24, 2021

• CDC: Fully vaccinated can largely skip testing | CMS to end Next Gen ACO model | Nurses protest Houston Methodist's vaccine mandate | Preventable hospitalizations: States ranked | Advocate Aurora to keep 12k employees remote

May 23, 2021

• What 600 physicians said about trust in their leaders | 14 hospital, system exec moves | 723 epidemiologists on how the pandemic will end | 7 new findings on 'COVID arm' | 5 ways to alleviate healthcare workforce shortages

May 22, 2021

• CEO resigns from W.Va. system | Nursing tops unfilled jobs in SC | The long-term pandemic toll few talk about | AHA urges US to treat ransomware like terrorism | Why Wis. employers are leaving UnitedHealthcare

May 21, 2021

• Scripps partly recovers from cyberattack: 7 updates | San Francisco nurses to strike | Stop calling everything 'burnout' | Fauci: How US avoids a fall COVID-19 surge | Providence owes surgeon $1 over lost privileges | Tenet, CHS + 12 systems' Q1 results

May 20, 2021

• 2 more large systems mandate vaccines for staff | JPMorgan launches healthcare co. | NY hospital ends inpatient care | Mayo Clinic Health System names president + 9 CEO moves | How COVID-19 can infect eyes | Centene CEO wants to leave Mo.

May 19, 2021

• CEOs exit Calif. hospital, Mass. system | OB-GYN gets 59-year sentence for unneeded surgeries | 14-hospital deal called off for CommonSpirit, Essentia | CHS has sued 19,000 patients over bills in pandemic

May 18, 2021

• Med schools miscount primary care physicians, experts say | As another senior leader exits, CDC reshuffles COVID-19 response | Tenet hospital to hire more nurses to replace strikers | Hospital won't face lawsuit over 'alarm fatigue'

May 17, 2021

• Nurses 'outraged' over new mask guidance | Trinity names CFO | Cancer patients see parking fees as 'knife in the back' | Scripps' IT outage passes 2-week mark: 6 notes | Why one of America's largest cities has a hospital desert

May 16, 2021

• 22 hospital, system exec moves | The 8 greatest healthcare leaders in 2021: Fortune | PE pushes into healthcare: 8 deals | Health system financial results for Q1 | 10 recent lawsuits, settlements

May 15, 2021

• CommonSpirit, Mass General see quarterly net income jump | Where COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising fastest | 3 Ascension hospitals pay $21M for alleged kickbacks | How execs from Cleveland Clinic, UCHealth & more handle dishonest reviews

May 14, 2021

• The reasoning behind new CDC mask guidelines | Maine, Conn. lead states in percentage of population fully vaccinated | HCA Fla. hospital chief to leave | 12 top hospitals for diversity | Is 'patient' outdated? This physician thinks so

May 13, 2021

• Tenet to hire 50 RNs, replace strikers | Finally, good news: 6 nos. showing pandemic progress | MetroHealth: Unvaccinated staff must get tested weekly | Mayo, Kaiser go in on hospital-at-home | World's 20 largest healthcare cos. | HCA to sell Ga. hospital

May 12, 2021

• What Scripps' CEO told staff in day 9 of IT outage | Ex-nursing aide gets 7 life sentences for 8 patient deaths | Wash. hospital delays surgeries; COVID-19 not to blame | Why states are investigating PBMs | 31 systems with post-COVID-19 clinics

May 11, 2021

• Texas system offers $20K sign-on bonus for ICU nurses | Dartmouth medical students accused of cheating | Physicians see fewer recruiting offers | States with most kids who can get Pfizer shots | Tenn. to revise CON law | FTC to judge: Halt NJ system deal

May 10, 2021

• CDC curbs tracking of breakthrough COVID-19 | Cigna CEO: Preventive care back to pre-pandemic levels | Jefferson changes physician bonus policy | HCA executives' pay subject of new ad campaign | Tenet nurses' strike moves into 10th week: 8 things to know

May 9, 2021

• 11 executive moves | It's Nat'l Hospital Week: 4 things to know | 11 latest M&A deals | The 53 orgs in CMS' direct contracting model | What researchers learned from COVID-19 mortality rates at 107 hospitals | 10 hospitals that best avoid unnecessary care

May 8, 2021

• CDC updates guidance on COVID-19 spread | Kaiser's net income hits $2B in Q1 | Bonuses no longer cut it — how hospitals competitively recruit, retain RNs | How vaccinated is your state? | Mo. hospital CEO to retire | Paid sick leave reduces ER visits

May 7, 2021

• Minn. nurse fired over scrubs can return to work | Hospitals get slap on wrist for price transparency failures | COVID-19 patients strain Maine ICUs | First Walmart lowered virtual visits from $40 to $4 — now it wants to buy a telemed co.

May 6, 2021

• COVID-19 cases hit 7-mo. low | How'd CMS star US News' 20 Honor Roll hospitals? | Tenet workers to rally after shareholders meet | 10 best paying locations for nurses | Northwell awarded for gun violence prevention work | 20 freebies, discounts for nurses

May 5, 2021

• Healthcare's definition of 'workplace safety' is outdated: 10 hospital CEOs want to change it | 700 Essentia staff petition acquisition of 17 hospitals + clinics | HCA shareholders reject giving quality more weight in exec pay | Births lowest since '79

May 4, 2021

• Why are physicians leaving this NC hospital? City seeks probe | 10 hospitals that best avoid unnecessary care | Scripps working on paper records | Kids now make up 22% of new COVID-19 cases | Hospitals in Tenn., Okla. to reopen

May 3, 2021

• Ascension, Kaiser to lay off hundreds | COVID-19 hospitalizations down 10% | Wis. takes lead in vaccine administration: States ranked | IT attack disrupts care at Calif. system | Piedmont to buy 4 HCA hospitals | Buffett on Haven's end: The 'tapeworm won'

May 2, 2021

• 18 exec moves | Big week in hospital rankings: 791 key results from CMS, Leapfrog + IBM/Fortune | Flu numbers: This season v. last | How CHS, Tenet, HCA and UHS fared in Q1

May 1, 2021

• Nurses on why they left the profession — and what would have made them stay | NP practice authority by state | Lifespan adds 125 providers | IBM/Fortune's top 15 systems | Can dogs smell COVID? One Fla. hospital is testing it | Ga. system CEO to retire

April 30, 2021

• 199 hospitals with 1 star from CMS | COVID-19 cases fall nationwide | Early retirements could hit healthcare hard | Final CJR rule: 5 notes | PA median salary, by state | Owner threatens to close 2 RI hospitals | How vaccinated is your state?

April 29, 2021

• All 455 of CMS' newly 5-starred hospitals, by state | Kan. hospital to end inpatient care | 7 CEO moves | CHS records $64M loss in Q1 | 4,000 Allina workers schedule strike | 37 'F' and straight-'A' hospitals: Leapfrog

April 28, 2021

• CMS floats '22 inpatient payment rule: 8 notes | Texas nurse will lose her job to stay unvaccinated | Chicago hospital paid millions to cos. tied to COO | Biden's $1.8T spending plan: 5 healthcare takeaways | Physicians' clash over meds ends in 1 arrest

April 27, 2021

• Top 100 hospitals + 15 systems, per Fortune/IBM Watson | Where are vaccination rates dropping? | Tenet, Mass. nurses at impasse | Systems weigh vaccine mandates | UHS records $209M profit | Telehealth co. fires CEO accused of harassing teen

April 26, 2021

• 68% of mild COVID-19 patients get new diagnosis within 6 mos. | CFO leaves Erlanger | 15 systems with strong finances | Sloan Kettering's digital chief heads to Teladoc | Most people get their 2nd COVID-19 shot — why 8% have skipped it

April 25, 2021

• 36 C-level job opportunities in hospitals | 16 exec moves | 18 healthcare CEOs with greatest paydays | 5 hospitals hit with credit downgrades | 5 CMS payment models under review, delayed | The future of hospital at home: What 5 innovation execs expect

April 24, 2021

• Indoors, 60 ft. of distance no better than 6 | 40 systems affected by software breach | How partially and fully vaccinated is your state? | CEO of Fla. system abruptly resigns | Poverty, depression and domestic violence more than 'SDOH' to Northwell's CEO

April 23, 2021

• Surgeries back on at Mich. hospitals | Mass vaccination sites are closing | How UnitedHealth aims to make Optum a $100B giant | NC system to switch partners | What's behind Amazon's executive exodus? | Kaiser to pay $11.5M to settle discrimination suit

April 22, 2021

• Daily vaccinations slip 11% | HCA profit more than doubles | Maine may have a 'syndemic' | 7 CEO moves | Fla. system faces monopoly lawsuit | New 4-letter reason for millennial turnover | Drug spending is climbing, but not at hospitals

April 21, 2021

• 5 states drive 75% of new COVID-19 cases | 18 highest-paid healthcare CEOs | CHS hospital preps for strike | Novant shakes up leadership | Stanford Health sues Anthem | CVS, Walgreens offer over-the-counter COVID-19 tests | Tenet's Q1 profit: $97M

April 20, 2021

• Fla. system CEO abruptly resigns | New variant detected in Texas | Hospital offers $600 to vaccinated employees | UVA Health to drop thousands of suits against patients | One CEO's unusual relationship with 'social determinants of health'

April 19, 2021

• City to run vaccine site at Chicago hospital that played favorites | Colo. system CEO resigns | CMS rescinds billions in Texas Medicaid funding | More than 50% of US adults at least partially vaccinated | 10 best, worst states for children's healthcare

April 18, 2021

• [By the numbers] 10 top-earning states for physicians | 15 exec moves | Optum on track to have 66,000 physicians by 2022 | 10 open CEO, CFO spots at hospitals | Reach of Epic, Cerner, Allscripts + Meditech: 31 numbers to know

April 17, 2021

• Physicians detect 4 emerging trends among COVID-19 long-haulers | Daily vaccinations tick up: Which states lead, lag? | Lifepoint cancer center to suspend care after losing only oncologist | Calif. nurses strike | Allegheny to close outpatient center

April 16, 2021

• Salaries for 29 physician specialties, ranked | Another system mandates vaccines; Houston Methodist CEO says policy 'very successful' | JPMorgan stacking healthcare talent | Dozens of Mich. hospitals near capacity | Baylor Scott & White has new CFO

April 15, 2021

• CDC releases data on COVID-19 cases among fully vaccinated | Pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations peak in Mich. | 5 CEO moves | UnitedHealth Q1 profit nears $5B | CMS bans code that hides hospital prices in web searches

April 14, 2021

• As COVID surged, so did pay for some healthcare CEOs | Vaccines in arms: Daily state rankings | ER physician gets $26M in wrongful termination case | RI hospital CEO ousted | Mayo launches 2 cos. in health analytics push | Calif. nurses call strike

April 13, 2021

• How hardest-hit Mich. is handling the J&J vaccine pause | Unvaccinated youth's role in COVID-19 surges | HCA execs up for new performance bonuses | Mission's physician departures get outside scrutiny | 1 dead in shooting at Ohio hospital: Police

April 12, 2021

• 9 best systems to work for, per Fortune | Fully vaccinated but COVID-19 positive? 4 notes on breakthrough cases | Microsoft to buy Nuance in $19.7B deal | Biden's $1.52T budget proposal: 6 healthcare notes | Top-paying states for NPs

April 11, 2021

• [By the numbers] 16 executive moves | States ranked by ER visits | 35 billionaires in US healthcare | 10 med schools with most grads practicing in rural America | 7 systems opening hospitals | 10 most common passwords

April 10, 2021

• How fully vaccinated is your state? | One state has 73,000 unclaimed vaccine appts. | 12 notes on CHS, Tenet, HCA executive pay | Steward, staffing co. in legal battle over nurse wages | LifePoint, Prisma call off deal

April 9, 2021

• Mich. hospitals pause surgeries; Biden ups vaccinators to state but not vaccines | 4,000 Allina workers threaten strike | CMS pitches 4 payment rules: 12 notes | Nurse claims Highmark didn't pay overtime | NH leads, Ala. lags in vaccine administration

April 8, 2021

• Hospitals getting richer from fed'l aid? AHA disputes Washington Post | Mich. hospitals face capacity constraints amid 17% positivity rate | 5 CEO moves | Judy Faulkner's retirement plans? There are none, she says | CMS adds 24 telehealth codes

April 7, 2021

• UK variant now most common strain in US | Mass General president to depart | 12 systems with strong finances | UnitedHealthcare gets new CEO | Viewpoint: Ditch the term 'vaccine passport' | Hospital adjusted expenses per inpatient day, state by state

April 6, 2021

• Of the 33 billionaires in US healthcare, 8 are new | HCA defends ER admission rates | Wis. hospital replaces anesthesiologists with CRNAs | CDC relaxes COVID-19 disinfection guidelines | Pa. hospital to lay off 365

April 5, 2021

• Mich. adds 8K+ COVID-19 cases in 1 day | Experts split on 4th wave | Replacement nurse pay a sticking point in 5th week of Mass. strike | Fla. outlaws vaccine passports | Investment group wants HCA director out | Physician admits to $26M telemed fraud

April 4, 2021

• [By the numbers] Lessons from 175,334 patient comments | 18 executive moves | Average charges for 8 procedures in 3 care settings | US News' top medical, nursing schools | 8 hospitals with new names

April 3, 2021

• 5 variants have CDC concerned: A breakdown | Average PA salary in all 50 states | LifePoint sells Wash. hospital | Hackensack Meridian test screens for variants, gives results in 2.5 hours | Do vaccine passports defy HIPAA? Experts weigh in

April 2, 2021

• CDC clears travel for fully vaccinated | Average RN pay in 50 states | UnitedHealthcare squeezes competitors like a 'boa constrictor,' physicians say | Vaccines vs. variants: 7 takeaways this week | ND leads vaccine administration: States ranked

April 1, 2021

• As UK variant cases double weekly in Houston, system mandates employee vaccination | 7 CEO moves | Mayo raises $500M | Physicians sue SSM over lost privileges | HCA to buy Tenn. hospital | BCBS of Minn. CEO to retire

March 31, 2021

• Minn. takes lead in vaccine administration: States ranked | Calif. hospital closes today | Fla. hospitals slam plan of deep Medicaid cuts | Pfizer shot works in kids 12-15 | Harvard, U of Wash. top med schools: US News' standings

March 30, 2021

• Hospitals admit more young adults for COVID-19 in Mich. | Chicago hospital CEO suspended | Hopkins, Rush top nursing programs: US News' standings | Fla. hospitals buffered from COVID-19 lawsuits | Wis. leads, Ala. lags in vaccinations: States ranked

March 29, 2021

• Variant cases surge in Fla. | Tenet CEO's compensation falls by $7M | Mass. hospital, union spar over cameras | CDC: Vaccines curb healthcare workers' infection by 90% | Nurse faces felony after patient death | 10 states opening vaccines to all adults

March 28, 2021

• [By the numbers] 17 executive moves | Hospitals v. the pandemic, told in 10 stats | 10 best, worst states to practice medicine | Who gets long COVID? 5 questions, answered | 5 systems opening hospitals

March 27, 2021

• RWJBarnabas sues insurer over $2.5B payout | 'Better in my arm than trash' doesn't hold in Chicago: Top doc | COVID-19 cases tick up | 4 orgs save Philly hospital | CMS trims pay for some surgeries | 'Not on our watch': Atrium CEO on health disparities

March 26, 2021

• As systems focus on vaccinations, testing falls | USC to pay $1.1B to settle claims of physician abuse | Billings Clinic walks from med school plan after PE exec comments | Hedge fund sells $133M of Tenet shares | Okla. hospitals' gas bills skyrocket

March 25, 2021

• Chicago hospital COO is out amid vaccine scandal | Race between variants + vaccines: Where things stand today | 9 execs have left Mass General Brigham in 5 mos. | Dr. Michael Osterholm: B.1.1.7 effect on hospitalizations unclear | Va. system sues insurer

March 24, 2021

• 5 questions about long COVID, answered | Calif. medical group to close | Stop assuming Black Americans don't want vaccine because of Tuskegee, critics say | 4 CMS payment models under review, delayed | Saint Alphonsus CEO Odette Bolano on calculated risks

March 23, 2021

• Wis. leads vaccine administration: States ranked | HCA board: Tying exec pay closer to quality 'unnecessary' | 40 open C-level jobs at hospitals | AstraZeneca's data may be outdated: NIH | Fla. nursing school loses accreditation, still recruits students

March 22, 2021

• Chicago's top doc rejects 'better in my arm than the trash' excuse | Sutter hospital fined after nurse's death | Hospitals hide prices on the web | HCA CEO's pay rises to $30.4M | Nurse strike enters 3rd week at Tenet hospital

March 21, 2021

• [By the numbers] 26 CEO retirements + resignations | 10 things to know: Hospital finances in '21 | New TrickBot malware: 10 ideas to protect hospitals | Fortune's 30 best places to work in healthcare | How HCA, Kaiser, Providence + 5 systems fared in '20

March 20, 2021

• CEO of Chicago safety-net pushed vaccines to his suburban church | Can a physician exodus be a good thing? This group says so | Largest Match Day on record: 6 notes | Texas hospital founder gets 12 years for $40M kickback scheme

March 19, 2021

• Mich. has epidemiologists concerned | Chicago hospital loses vaccines after they went to staff at COO's condo | 5 things to know about Xavier Becerra | CDC: 3 feet of distancing OK in schools | Beth Israel Lahey accused of poaching physicians

March 18, 2021

• Nurse's claim of interrupted breaks culminates in class-action lawsuit | Nearly 2,700 canceled surgeries cost NY hospital $34M | Piedmont names CFO | Healthcare cos. Peter Drucker would find innovative | When some long-haulers say lingering symptoms fade

March 17, 2021

• LA hospital to close, lay off 451 | COVID-19 activity rises in Midwest, Northeast | Catholic Health names CEO + 11 CEO resignations | Amazon Care to launch nationwide | UPMC makes 5 leadership changes | 2 Calif. variants officially 'of concern': CDC

March 16, 2021

• Who's up for vaccination in each state | Calif. sues Brookdale after exposé | Rural hospital closures peak | Doctor on Demand, Grand Rounds to merge | Ill. hospital resumes heart transplants after 14 yrs | CMS ups vaccine pay

March 15, 2021

• Striking nurses bully those reporting to work at Tenet hospital | Sanford no longer pursuing Intermountain merger | Mo. hospital CEO resigns | Instagram photos in OR prompt investigation at Spectrum | Most vaccinated states, ranked

March 14, 2021

• [By the numbers] UK variant in all 50 states: 12 CDC findings to know | 17 exec moves + 11 hospitals seeking CMOs | What nursing chiefs are concerned about this spring | 5 systems opening hospitals | Optum's growing physician ranks: 9 nos. to know

March 12, 2021

• NM leads, Ga. trails: States ranked by vaccine administration | Biden wants shots open to all by May: 5 speech notes | A case for clear masks | UPMC exec exits for USC | Stadiums 'essential' in COVID-19 fight

March 11, 2021

• Fauci urges prudence on spring breaks | CDC, Dollar General broach rural vaccinations | 6 hospital layoffs + 11 CEO moves | Amazon pushes health hubs into 5 more states | Trinity buys majority stake in urgent care co. | ND leads US in immunizations

March 10, 2021

• Houston finds 'uncontrolled' spread of UK variant | Hospitals' security cams hacked | 29 best-managed healthcare cos. | 'Ticking time bomb' could void thousands of health rules | Tenet hospital faces 600-worker picket alongside nurse strike

March 9, 2021

• Hawaii best state for healthcare: US News | CMS delays kidney care model | 9 executive retirements | Primer on Dr. B, the vaccine standby site | Billionaire cuts stake in CHS | Change Healthcare, Amazon team up

March 8, 2021

• CDC guidance for fully vaccinated: 4 notes | Wis. leads vaccine administration at 92% | 800 Tenet nurses strike | Chicago hospital may sell for $1 | Nat'l COVID-19 test strategy underway | 15 financially strong systems | BCBS of Minn. sues Martin Shkreli

March 7, 2021

• [By the numbers] 26 executive moves | 10 hospital M&A deals | 200 top rural, community + critical access hospitals by state | Major health systems report $1B+ annual profits

March 6, 2021

• Walmart heir to build medical school | Why COVID Tracking Project will stop reporting data | Hackers publish NM hospital workers' info | HCA opens Colo. hospital | 15 most overweight cities | Casino mogul donates $50M to NY system

March 5, 2021

• Physician charged with murder for prescription practices | Mass General Brigham names new CFO; Swedish, University Hospitals add new officers | Tenet hospital prepares for strike | Sutter to begin sweeping review of finances

March 4, 2021

• Kan., Ga. lag in vaccinations: States ranked | Providence under investigation | 22 US hospitals among Newsweek's 100 best in world | Chicago's Mercy has potential buyer | Texas system's chief resigns + 15 CEO moves

March 3, 2021

• Hospital CEO resigns after vaccine misstep | Texas hospitals: Keep masking, 'we know it works' | Tenn. hospital abruptly closes | Optum to add 715 Mass. physicians | Beaumont CFO leaves for Beth Israel Lahey | HHS makes 20 hires | CEO confidence hits high

March 2, 2021

• Congress to probe One Medical vaccinations | Tenn. hospital loses staff, stops admitting patients | 1 dead in Houston med office shooting | CDC director to states: Don't curb COVID-19 safety measures + states with most, fewest restrictions

March 1, 2021

• J&J vaccine available in 1-2 days | Fla. expands vaccine eligibility | $1.9 trillion relief package heads to Senate | FTC drops challenge to 18-hospital merger in Pa. | Surgeon joins Zoom court hearing while operating | Mayo sees $13.9B annual revenue

February 28, 2021

• [By the numbers] 18 executive moves | 18% of US adults say they've received at least 1 vaccine dose | 7 latest hospital closures | 10 best cities for women in tech

February 27, 2021

• Nurses lose confidence in CEO of Calif. hospital | One Medical accused of vaccinating ineligible people | HCA expands home health, hospice footprint | Woman dies after contracting COVID-19 from donor lungs

February 26, 2021

• Shareholder advocates deem these 21 healthcare CEOs 'overpaid' | Ala. health center has gotten 0 vaccine doses | Cyberattack cost UHS $67M | Key FDA panel reviews J&J vaccine today | 2 things to remember about this week's COVID-19 data

February 25, 2021

• Tenn. lags behind in immunizations: States ranked | Mission hospital loses 76% of physicians over pay cuts | 7 CEO moves | How 3 systems got shots in 55,000+ arms in 10 days: Lessons from mass vaccination events | Ga. systems drop plan to combine

February 24, 2021

• Calif. variant more contagious, early research shows | Penn Medicine physician stabbed by patient: Police | Ascension, Google roll out EHR search | 800 nurses at Mass. hospital to strike | State rejects NC system's $210M hospital plan

February 23, 2021

• 1% steps that could reform healthcare | Lifespan, Care New England to merge | Top CHS execs get raises | Calif. nurses delay 3-day strike | Healthcare boards 87% white | 9 systems deemed 'world's most ethical' | Co. pays ransom for 29,982 patients' data

February 22, 2021

• Woman dies after contracting COVID-19 from donor lungs | CHS shrinks by 40 hospitals | Meet Biden's contenders to head FDA | Virus hospitalizations fall for 40 days | 7 hospital closures + 6 systems opening hospitals

February 21, 2021

• [By the numbers] 15 executive moves | Declines in hospital volume, state by state | How UPMC, NYC Health + Hospitals, Tufts and Beaumont are prepping for the next crisis | 7 systems’ Q4 financial results

February 20, 2021

• NY physician charged with manslaughter in patient death | Fla. ramps up security after women go in disguise to get vaccinated | Biden picks lead for CMS Innovation Center | CDC: Headaches, fatigue among most common vaccine side effects

February 19, 2021

• 774 hospitals penalized for patient harm | 6 top hospitals' workforce vaccination rates: How does yours compare? | Texas water problems worsen: 5 things to know | Hoag alleges retaliatory physician network changes | CommonSpirit triples net income

February 18, 2021

• Water loss added to crises Texas hospitals face at once: 6 things to know | CHS sheds 18 hospitals | Meet Biden's pick to run CMS | Storms delay COVID-19 shot shipments | NM leads vaccine administration at 98% | US seizes 11M knockoff N95s

February 17, 2021

• Texas power outages lead to hundreds of patients with carbon monoxide poisoning | US boosts states' weekly vaccine supply | Biden pitches pandemic relief plan: 5 takeaways | NY hospital halts cancer unit admissions after 3rd COVID-19 cluster

February 16, 2021

• Biden fills HHS: 13 new appointees | Texans rush to get thousands of vaccines in arms after power outage | Fla. COVID-19 response leader resigns | Ochsner pauses elective surgeries at 3 sites | HCA to open Colo. hospital | CVS profit down 44%

February 15, 2021

• S. Africa variant reinfection case confirmed | W. Va. leads vaccine administration at 98% | 35 hospitals hiring chiefs | Sutter to cut 277 jobs | Clinical description of long COVID-19 in progress | Calif. hospital backs CNO amid no-confidence petition

February 14, 2021

• [By the numbers] 16 exec moves | Walmart, Amazon & 3 more retail giants' virtual care strategies | 10 hospitals seeking CEOs | 5 top-paying spots for PAs | UAB, Mayo lead Forbes' best large employers: All 26 healthcare orgs | 11 financially strong systems

February 13, 2021

• CDC: 5 key COVID-19 mitigation strategies | Tenet sees $414M profit, delays Conifer spinoff | Whistleblowing hospital CEO wins $1M | UCLA Health gets $29M gift | Trinity, Northwell + 12 others go in on data platform | Pharmacy chains on hiring sprees

February 12, 2021

• Iowa, Idaho, Kan. lead COVID-19 positivity rates: Nos. by state | LifePoint in talks to buy 30 hospitals | 'Companion' vaccines prompt stream of volunteers in Mass. | Physicians exit Mission after HCA takeover | US probes knockoff N95s sent to hospitals

February 11, 2021

• Fully vaccinated not required to quarantine: CDC | Chicago hospital files for bankruptcy | Utah leads US for vaccine shots in arms: States ranked | How big is Optum? 11 numbers to know | La. hospital chief resigns + 6 more CEO moves

February 10, 2021

• CDC refines mask guidance | Suspect in Allina clinic shooting 'unhappy' with care: Police | 25 hospitals among Forbes' best large employers | One thing hospitals, payers, employers agree on: Expand the ACA | Hospitals can't sue over $840M pay cut

February 9, 2021

• As COVID-19 cases hit 15-week low, CDC chief urges vigilance amid variants | Healthgrades' 50 top hospitals | Broward picks CEO | Tower Health to trim exec pay | Glenview cuts stake in Tenet | $5.6B Mayo-backed project in Rochester still on track

February 8, 2021

• S. Africa variant ID'ed in 3rd state | 33 healthcare companies among 'world's most admired' | Kaiser annual net income falls to $6.4B | 60 Black health leaders: Get the vaccine | Seattle Children's cancels vaccine appointments over access concerns

February 7, 2021

• [By the numbers] 51 executive moves in hospitals, health insurance cos. | 20 best paying locations for nurses + physicians | Cleveland Clinic, Novant, OSF expand: 12 recent hospital M&A deals | 29 Black medical pioneers to know

February 6, 2021

• How healthcare CEOs want the industry to prep for its next crisis | Mass General Brigham's Q1 net income: $1.1B | Stanford surgeons set heart transplant record | CDC: Mask mandates linked with lower COVID-19 hospitalizations

February 5, 2021

• COVID-19 cases down 47% from Jan. peak | Mass., Ala., Miss. trail in vaccine administration: States ranked | Cleveland Clinic names police chief | Vaccine selfies lead to scams | Pa. hospitals sued over alleged 'no-poach' deal | 8 newly named hospitals

February 4, 2021

• Tenet must pay whistleblowing physicians $10M | 9 hospital layoffs, 13 CEO moves | Optum chief to lead UnitedHealth | 1st fed'l vaccine sites to open in Calif. | 10 best paying locations for nurses | New co. to sell COVID-19 tests in vending machines

February 3, 2021

• ND, W.Va. and Conn. lead nation in vaccine administration: States ranked | Widow inspires Renown to lift visitor restrictions | CHOP, Geisinger affiliate | Study: People age 20-49 drive majority of COVID-19 spread | Cerner opens vaccine clinic

February 2, 2021

• Kaiser would need 4 years to vaccinate Calif. patients at current supply rate | 10 best paying locations for physicians | HCA annual profit climbs to $3.8B | CDC ramps up efforts to detect coronavirus variants | 2 workers stabbed at Ochsner LSU Health

February 1, 2021

• GOP senators propose $618B COVID-19 package | Who's who of Biden's healthcare picks: 35 notes | Cleveland Clinic adds 476-bed hospital | HHS sued over NM hospital closure | COVID-19 shots in arms: States ranked | FEMA-run vaccine sites to open this month

January 31, 2021

• [By the numbers] 23 exec moves | 8 hospitals cutting services | 3 fed'l health rules withdrawn | Hospitals take 55% hit to median operating margin after 'tumultuous' year | 17 healthcare companies with most remote jobs | 10 hospitals hiring VPs

January 30, 2021

• 1,600 vaccinated in rush after freezer fails at Seattle clinic | Feds: Miss. man hoarded PPE, gouged providers | Fla. system under probe over exec pay | 'Birthday rule' sticks parents with $270K hospital bill | Ga. practice loses vaccines for 6 mos.

January 29, 2021

• Ala., Pa. and Wis. lag behind in immunizations: States ranked | Hospital in rural Ga. stripped of vaccines for 6 mos. | Biden inks more healthcare orders: 5 notes | 2 Va. hospital CEOs resign | Fla. Medicaid site hacked for 7 years | Sutter cuts 200 jobs

January 28, 2021

• US reports 1st cases of S. Africa variant | As vaccine administration lags, hospitals run out of shots - why? | Baylor Scott & White restructures 1,700 jobs | 9 CEO moves | HCA: Calif. hospital COO wasn't disciplined over lapse in vaccine protocol

January 27, 2021

• States to get 3-week forecast on vaccine supply | COO disciplined after Calif. hospital breaks vaccine protocol | Pulmonologist shortage forces Ariz. hospital to close ICU | COVID-19 shots in arms: States ranked | Walgreens taps Starbucks exec as CEO

January 26, 2021

• Kan. lags behind in US vaccine administration: States ranked | Biden to pick nurse as acting surgeon general | CHS breaks with Miss. hospital 14 years early | 7 plead guilty in $931M telemed scheme | Cleveland Clinic extends reach to Bahamas

January 25, 2021

• Fauci: Consider UK variant deadlier | Delta poaches Mayo exec | Median hospital operating margin: 2.7% | Michael Dowling on 2021: No one said it'd be easy | Social distancing, masks needed until late July | COVID-19 shots in arms: States ranked

January 24, 2021

• [By the nos.] 897 hospitals at risk of closure, state by state | 21 executive moves | Biden's 198-page pandemic plan: 10 things to know | 8 hospitals hiring CQOs | 7 rapid-fire Qs with Ascension's innovation chief Eduardo Conrado

January 23, 2021

• Unplugged freezer wastes 1,900 Moderna doses at Boston hospital | Providence names CFO | LA hospital set to close may stay open for COVID-19 surge | Short on shots, NYC closes 15 vaccine sites | Texas physician charged with vaccine theft

January 22, 2021

• US hospitalizations dip after 16-week climb | Biden's pandemic plan: 10 things to know | 130+ IT jobs open at Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, Northwell | Mo. hospital opens today | HCA invests in domestic PPE | 7 healthcare marketers on crafting authentic brands

January 21, 2021

• Biden to ink 10 COVID-19 orders today | Ala., Va., Calif. lag behind in immunizations: States ranked | Optum aims to add 10,000 physicians | Cigna accused of using hospital surge to deny claims | 6 execs among Trump's healthcare pardons | 8 CEO moves

January 20, 2021

• Biden's first healthcare actions, quotes as president | New US variant may be behind Calif. surge | Temp problems spoil 16K vaccines in Maine, Mich. | UnitedHealth profit drops as patients return | Physicians work in parking lot of locked Texas hospital

January 19, 2021

• Ala., Ga. lag behind in US vaccine administration: States ranked | SC to hospitals: Speed up vaccinations or halt elective surgeries | Houston hospital closes | Physician purposely exposed patients to COVID-19, RI finds

January 17, 2021

• [By the numbers] 21 exec moves | Azar submits resignation: 5 things to know | When will smell, taste return? 5 COVID-19 answers | 14 new CMS actions in one 5-min. read | 9 hospital M&A deals | 14 top-paying healthcare jobs

January 16, 2021

• Fast-spreading COVID-19 variant to be dominant in US by March | NYC to run out of vaccines next week | Releasing all doses won't delay second shots: Biden team | Pfizer narrows vaccine production as factory renovated | Calif. hospital CEO to retire

January 15, 2021

• Biden's $1.9 trillion relief plan: 10 things to know | Ill. finds new COVID-19 variant | No. 1 takeaway from JP Morgan Healthcare Conference | Calif. hospital group: Prep for crisis care | Cone Health CEO, CFO depart | 8 join Biden pandemic team

January 14, 2021

• UK variant in 13 states: What to know today | 14 highest-paid healthcare jobs | Chicago, LA hospitals set to close | CMS' price transparency audits begin: 6 things to know | Ala. leaders worry nat'l championship party will boost COVID-19 cases

January 13, 2021

• Why are vaccinations going so well in 4 states? | Ohio IDs new virus variant | Ark. bucks HHS' new vaccine guidelines | Healthcare's best places to work in '21 | Cleveland Clinic changes mission statement | Shots in arms: Daily state ranking

January 12, 2021

• COVID-19 hospitalizations top 100,000 for 40 days | Shots in arms: Daily state rankings | 'Lawless' vaccine rollout + 22 variant cases: Closer look at COVID-19 in Fla. | Man arrested after Cleveland Clinic worker abducted | Biden plans relief in trillions

January 11, 2021

• COVID-19 hospitalizations top 100,000 for 40 days | Shots in arms: Daily state rankings | 'Lawless' vaccine rollout + 22 variant cases: Closer look at COVID-19 in Fla. | Man arrested after Cleveland Clinic worker abducted | Biden plans relief in trillions

January 10, 2021

• [By the numbers] Ascension, Banner, Mayo + 11 more financially strong systems | CEO exits at Brigham Health, Adventist Central Fla. + 17 exec moves | 15 hospital rebrands, name changes | 1 reason Haven failed: Patchy market share

January 9, 2021

• COVID-19 variants may interfere with test results | 6 considerations on how variants will affect the US | NY to launch vaccination phase 1b | CommonSpirit to sell 14 hospitals | SCA faces charges of collusion | ER operator declares bankruptcy

January 8, 2021

• Biden to change nat'l vaccine strategy | COVID-19 shots in arms: Friday's state rankings | HHS official resigns after Capitol riot | Nearly 60% of virus spread may come from the asymptomatic | Patient arrested after shots fired in NYC hospital

January 7, 2021

• States ranked by COVID-19 shots in arms | UK variant in Pa. | DC hospitals treat 10 involved in Capitol riot | 205 symptoms from 'long haulers' | Daryl Tol abruptly resigns as AdventHealth's Fla. chief | 2 fired physician leaders win $10.6M against Tenet

January 6, 2021

• COVID-19 variant found in Ga. | Hospitalizations flare in South, West | 1 Calif. hospital to close as another reopens | States turn to party RSVP websites for vaccine appts. | Optum to buy Change for $13B | Dr. Betsy Nabel to step down as head of Brigham

January 5, 2021

• LA paramedics told not to transport certain patients | Fridge failure forces Adventist hospital to give 850 COVID-19 shots in 2.5 hrs | UK variant in NY | CHS sells 2 Tenn. hospitals | Arrested Wis. pharmacist believed vaccines were 'unsafe'

January 4, 2021

• Why virus variant in South Africa alarms officials | Haven to dissolve | Christmas costume possible link to infection of 44 Kaiser staff | Ohio health systems split 3 years early | Envision, UnitedHealthcare part ways | Air travel hits pandemic high

January 3, 2021

• [By the numbers] The No. 1 hospital in each state | 5,100 physicians on the year's toughest ethical issues | How Google, Amazon + Walmart moved into healthcare in 2020 | PA median salary by state | 10 notable CEO transitions

January 2, 2021

• Record number of US workers calling in sick | Police arrest Wis. pharmacist accused of damaging vaccines on purpose | Hospital CEOs' best advice in 2020 | Operators sell NJ, Wash. hospitals | Church erases $21M in medical debt

December 31, 2020

• COVID-19 variant detected in Calif. | Hospital fires worker who intentionally spoiled vaccines | Banner halts elective surgeries | Temperature problems delay 144K vaccine doses for Texas | 3 CEO moves | Tenn. loses 3rd hospital this year

December 30, 2020

• Hospitals must disclose negotiated rates this week | COVID-19 variant in Colo., 2nd case suspected: What we know now | Air Force, Army workers head to Calif. hospitals | Biden adds 3 leaders to pandemic response team

December 29, 2020

• Skip line for vaccine and lose your license, governors warn healthcare providers | LA hospital treats patients in gift shop: 6 updates out of Calif. | Why some hospital workers are unhappy with vaccine distribution | 15 exec moves | Minn. ER to close

December 28, 2020

• NY hospital staff cut line for vaccine | Calif. sees record-high hospitalizations, nurses struggle with stretched patient ratios | Nashville explosion disrupts hospitals' IT | Beaumont changes board after negative staff surveys | Trump OKs COVID-19 relief

December 27, 2020

• [By the numbers] 62 hospital CEO exits | What 14 hospital CFOs told Becker's | 5 considerations when reviewing COVID-19 numbers now | 31 interview questions for nurses

December 26, 2020

• Kaiser Permanente CEO: 'We're at or near capacity everywhere' | 6 CEO moves | Trump commutes 20-year sentence for healthcare executive | Physician dies of COVID-19 after alleging racist care at IU Health

December 24, 2020

• Virus data will wobble next 10+ days | COVID-19 patient killed by hospital roommate in Calif. | NYC sheriffs are checking UK travelers' quarantines | Tenet, Methodist Le Bonheur abandon $350M deal after FTC challenge | 53 hospital closures + bankruptcies

December 23, 2020

• NY hospitals test for COVID-19 variant | Trump wants edits to relief bill | 2 injured in PeaceHealth shooting | Calif. hospitals deter holiday gatherings | Tenn. hospital president exits | Physician says she told CEO staffing concerns, was fired next day

December 22, 2020

• Fauci: UK variant may already be in US | $900B COVID-19 relief bill: What's in it for hospitals | Idaho, Ala., Pa. lead nation in COVID-19 positivity rates: Nos. by state | SC health system CEO to step down after 12 years

December 21, 2020

• Some hospitals to get Moderna vaccine today | COVID-19 variant in UK spreads 70% faster | LA hospitals brace for tough decisions about care | Ages 75+, front-line essential workers: Next vaccine priorities | Congress agrees on $900B in COVID-19 relief

December 20, 2020

• [By the numbers] 7 called-off hospital deals | 7 healthcare leaders' strategies to encourage COVID-19 vaccination | 15 executive moves | AHA: 28 actions for Biden in first 100 days | Leapfrog's 45 'F' and straight-'A' hospitals

December 19, 2020

• Hospitals grow tense over who is vaccinated | FDA approves Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine | Tenet CEO gets $9.6M payout | 37 hospital CEO retirements | Mass General Brigham sees steep operating loss with $546M in aid

December 18, 2020

• Cameras, locks and guards: How hospitals are protecting vaccines | A week of mixed COVID-19 news: 6 points on where US stands | Tenet to sell 87 urgent care centers | Ill. system joins Northwestern | How NewYork-Presbyterian's CXO deals with virus denial

December 17, 2020

• Hospitals to get $4.5B more in relief | 4 CEO moves | COVID-19 hospitalizations 3x September nos. | Pa. physician sentenced for involuntary manslaughter | Employee gifts prompt Texas hospital probe | Biden, Pence to take vaccine publicly

December 16, 2020

• Virus surges slow in Midwest | Calif. medical staff pleads for nurses not to strike | Chicago hospital closure thwarted | Why one state keeps hospital CEO pay confidential | The healthiest, unhealthiest states | Dr. Paul Farmer wins $1M Berggruen prize

December 15, 2020

• What drove the exits of 181 health officials | Moderna vaccine may clear this week | Workers at 3 HCA hospitals call strike | Nurse shortage hampers opening of Tenn. field hospital | NY ICU nurse 1st American to get COVID-19 vaccine

December 14, 2020

• First healthcare workers vaccinated today | COVID-19 hospitalizations near 110,000 | AHA: 28 actions for Biden in first 100 days | Leapfrog's 'F' and 'straight-A' hospitals | Congressional leaders agree on plan to ban balance billing

December 13, 2020

• [By the numbers] 19 exec moves | 15 hospital layoffs | Leapfrog's top 105 hospitals | Financial updates from Ascension, Kaiser + 7 others | 21 hospital closures by state | ICU nurses weigh in on pandemic toll: 4 things to know

December 12, 2020

• FDA clears Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use | Sanford shakes up leadership team | States ranked by COVID-19 positivity rates | Biogen conference linked to 330K COVID-19 cases | Ousted Calif. hospital CEO arrested

December 11, 2020

• New Sanford CEO shakes up leadership team | Tenn. hospital closes | NM halts elective surgeries, opens door for care rationing | Pfizer vaccine nears emergency approval | What 5 front-line workers want hospital leaders to know

December 10, 2020

• US sees most COVID-19 deaths in 1 day | Tenet inks $1.1B surgery center deal | Why 21 hospitals closed this year | NY hospital fires worker for refusing flu shot | Ind. hospitals ordered to halt electives | 7 recent CEO moves + 25 resignations in 2020

December 9, 2020

• 5 cities with highest ICU occupancy | Pfizer vaccine gets allergy warning | Kaiser accused of market monopolization | 110+ hospitals halting surgeries | Court rejects FTC bid to block Philly hospital merger | Advocate Aurora gives $66M in bonuses

December 8, 2020

• US records most COVID-19 deaths in 1 week | 15 hospital layoffs | Leapfrog names 2020 Top Hospitals | Trump plans exec order on COVID-19 vaccines | 106 hospitals halting surgeries | Ousted Calif. hospital CEO arrested

December 7, 2020

• Biden picks HHS, CDC leaders | NH, W.Va. hospital CEOs step down | 'A physician's nightmare': NM hospitals on brink of rationing care | FDA authorizes at-home COVID-19 + flu test | UNC Health adds 12th hospital + 9 systems opening hospitals

December 6, 2020

• [By the numbers] 96 hospitals postponing elective procedures | 8 health systems with strong finances | CMS' last payment rules: 11 takeaways | 22 executive moves | Trust in experts is waning: 4 thoughts for healthcare leaders

December 5, 2020

• Sanford, Intermountain halt merger talks | States ranked by COVID-19 test positivity rates | Dr. Atul Gawande: Why vaccinations will test American society | Hospital CEOs abruptly resign in Minn., Ariz. | Nashville nurse charged after 100-person party

December 4, 2020

• Biden starts on healthcare team | COVID-19 data not yet reflecting Thanksgiving: Positivity, hospitalizations by state | Staff meal breaks: How 4 systems curb infection risks | Calif. stay-home orders tied to ICU capacity | FTC challenges NJ hospital deal

December 3, 2020

• Cleveland Clinic extends surgery delays as 1,100 staff sidelined | Minn. system CEO abruptly resigns + 10 CEO moves | CDC trims quarantine recommendation | CMS' 2021 outpatient payment rule: 5 takeaways | Diversions blamed for Tenn. hospital closure

December 2, 2020

• CDC panel: Vaccinate healthcare workers first | Biden narrows HHS pick | Renown CEO defends surge site after Trump suggests it's 'fake' | Nurse charged after hosting 100-person party | CMS' 2021 physician payment rule: 6 takeaways

December 1, 2020

• White House COVID-19 adviser resigns | Calif. pushes for weekly testing of hospital workers | NY hospital nurses strike | 80 hospitals postponing elective procedures | 3 healthcare actions Biden plans to take in 1st 100 days

November 30, 2020

• Fauci warns of 'surge upon a surge' | 10 hospital exec moves | Biden adds members to COVID-19 task force | Nurse placed on leave over anti-mask TikTok video | Cleveland Clinic's net income triples | Moderna seeks emergency approval for vaccine

November 29, 2020

• [By the numbers] 66 hospitals suspending surgeries | 32 hospitals seeking CFOs, CMOs + COOs | 134 rural hospital closures: State-by-state breakdown | Hospital financial losses mount: 5 things to know

November 28, 2020

• 5 considerations when reviewing COVID-19 data right now | Sanford Health, Alameda Health CEOs out | Virus sidelines 1,000 Cleveland Clinic workers | We've gone from stress to trauma: What that means for leaders

November 27, 2020

• COVID-19 hospitalizations top 90,000: Why this number is one to watch closely | Calif. health system CEO resigns | CMS seeks to boost hospital capacity | NY hospital warns of possible mass layoffs, bankruptcy | Billionaire sells $40M more of CHS stock

November 25, 2020

• Sanford Health CEO is out | CDC may change quarantine guidelines | Virus positivity, spread rates | Advocate Aurora's loss grows to $435M over 9 mos. | Biden team has 1st official COVID-19 briefing | New Yorkers pay others to wait for tests

November 24, 2020

• At-capacity Colo. hospitals can now deny patients | MultiCare physicians, PAs, NPs strike | Sanford changes rules for college b-ball event | 66 hospitals halting elective surgeries | HCA beats billing fraud suit | NY to reopen emergency hospital

November 23, 2020

• 1,000 Cleveland Clinic staff sidelined due to COVID-19 | 'Exhaustion is palpable': Hospital chiefs plead as staff resilience runs thin | Holiday travel spikes despite CDC warning | Wash. hospital unwinds from Virginia Mason

November 22, 2020

• [By the numbers] 53 hospitals postponing elective procedures | 25 exec moves | 137-year-old Minn. hospital closes | 50 top cardiovascular hospitals ranked by IBM Watson Health | 32 hospital bankruptcies + 12 hospital closures this year

November 21, 2020

• 'Science is clear, masks work': Sanford execs respond to CEO's email on why he doesn't mask | Mich. hospital staff exposed to COVID-19 told to come to work | COVID-19 positivity rates, new cases by state | Chinese billionaire sells $41M of CHS stock

November 20, 2020

• Sanford CEO: I've had COVID-19, won't wear a mask as 'symbolic gesture' | COVID-19 cases up 26% in 1 wk: Positivity rates, new cases by state | Mayo's operating income falls 51% | Surgeon's libel lawsuit dismissed | Lee Health, Cleveland Clinic partner

November 19, 2020

• AHA, AMA, ANA to public: Curb holiday gatherings | How chiefs at SSM, Stanford, Advocate Aurora + 5 systems address staff shortages | Some Americans face 5-day wait for test results | 7 CEO moves | 6 leaders on how to better support nurses

November 18, 2020

• 900+ Mayo staff diagnosed with COVID-19 | 41 hospitals postponing surgeries | Healthcare workers could get 1st vaccine doses in a mo. | Hospitals urge White House to share COVID-19 data with Biden team | 22% of US hospitals anticipate staff shortage

November 17, 2020

• Virus surges in 48 states | Minn. hospital closes | Cleveland hospital chiefs plead as 1,000+ staff quarantined | Pa. nurses strike | 'Don't know how much more we can take': ND nurses on state OK to work with COVID | Physician wants Beaumont C-level out

November 16, 2020

• US records 1M cases in week; Moderna vaccine 94.5% effective | 10 physicians on what Thanksgiving should look like | Ark. hospital halts surgeries as 55 employees sick with COVID-19 | Broward CEO resigns | COVID-19 positivity rate, new cases by state

November 15, 2020

• [By the numbers] 31 exec moves | RN pay in 2020: 7 notes | The 13 members of Biden's COVID-19 task force | 10 hospitals, systems with workforce shortages | Briefing a senior exec: 5 tips to do it right | 5 states with the highest obesity rates

November 14, 2020

• 184,514 new daily cases | Positivity rates by state | Renown treats COVID-19 patients in parking structure | WH task force not in talks with governors for wks | Utah hospital guards against conspiracy theorists | Trump says he'd keep vaccine from NY

November 13, 2020

• Conspiracy theorists try to enter ICU to see if full | COVID-19 positivity rates + new cases by state | 2 in 5 likely to attend large holiday gathering | US hits 150K+ daily cases | 29 hospitals postponing surgeries | 2 killed in Conn. hospital explosion

November 12, 2020

• ND lets COVID-19-positive nurses keep working | Wis. officials warn of 'tipping point' where hospital care not accessible | Cleveland Clinic postpones surgeries | Advocate Aurora halts testing | WH task force quiet; Biden forms COVID transition team

November 11, 2020

• COVID-19 hospitalizations at all-time high: 'We're about to enter COVID hell' | CDC: Masks help wearer, too | UCHealth postpones surgeries | ACA at Supreme Court: 6 takeaways | Chicago nurses on leave after giving boss dead flowers

November 10, 2020

• Iowa system CEO to community: Have backup plan if hospitals hit capacity | 6th day of 100K+ new COVID-19 cases in US: Region-by-region breakdown | Workers strike to oust Maine hospital CEO | Texas system's IT network shut down | Layoffs coming at Tenet

November 9, 2020

• Meet the 13 members of Biden's COVID-19 task force | Utah declares state of emergency | By state: COVID-19 positivity, spread rates | Kaiser net income up 68% in Q3 | 11 hospital layoffs | What healthcare chiefs can expect under Biden presidency

November 8, 2020

• [By the numbers] 17 hospitals postponing elective procedures | 23 exec moves | 19 hospitals with strong finances | 39 hospitals face maximum Medicare readmission penalties

November 7, 2020

• Next week could bring dire COVID-19 hospitalization records | Cleveland Clinic has 3 new leaders | 2 Ill. hospitals get OK to merge | Thousands of jobs open at Mayo, Banner | Ga. hospital closes

November 6, 2020

• US shatters daily COVID-19 case record again | More surgeries restricted in Midwest | CVS CEO to step down | Kaiser names CMO | 36 NY physicians quarantined after party | 2 Ariz. hospitals join Dignity Health

November 5, 2020

• US hits 100K+ daily cases for 1st time: Positivity rates by state | Hospitals ramp up email security | 4 BJC hospitals postpone electives | 9 CEO moves | 'COVID' fee shows up on medical bills

November 4, 2020

• 13 states see record COVID-19 hospitalizations: Where virus spread is fastest | Sanford reschedules nonemergency care | 2020 election: 5 things we do know | Michael Dowling on decency | FDA warns of rapid test inaccuracies | ER physicians sue UnitedHealth

November 3, 2020

• Birx: US entering 'most deadly phase' of pandemic | 10 hospitals postponing elective surgeries | CEO of Seattle medical center to retire | CMS finalizes dialysis payment rule: 5 things to know | 500+ BCBS of Mich. employees take buyouts

November 2, 2020

• Geisinger, AtlantiCare unravel merger | Ga. hospital closes | 9 states hit record COVID-19 hospitalizations: 6 updates | CMS fines 2,545 hospitals over readmission rates | Pa. hospital CEO resigns

November 1, 2020

• [By the numbers] 21 exec moves | 10 cities with highest, lowest average physician pay | Intermountain + Sanford: 5 things to know about their $15B merger | CMS releases final price disclosure rule: 5 things to know

October 31, 2020

• 2 dead in Va. hospital shooting | Mayo hospitals in Wis. suspend electives + 8 other hospitals pausing surgeries | Ore. hospital shuts down IT system after ransomware attack | NewYork-Presbyterian CXO Rick Evans on hitting the pandemic wall

October 30, 2020

• COVID-19 positivity, spread rates by state | Hackers claim to have 400+ hospitals in crosshairs | Defer or continue electives in COVID-19 surge? 3 physician leaders make their case | Maine hospital workers want CEO fired | Hospital bankruptcy wave looms

October 29, 2020

• 'Disaster in warp speed': Wis. breaks COVID-19 records | 6 ransomware attacks in 24 hrs; FBI warns of imminent threat to hospitals | 11 CEO moves | CMS releases final price disclosure rule | 43 UCSF patients, employees quarantined amid COVID-19 outbreak

October 28, 2020

• Mass. hospital outbreak tied to eating in break room | CHS CEO to step down | Pa. hospital pauses some surgeries after employees' positive COVID-19 tests | 44,000+ COVID-19 hospitalizations: 5 updates | Workers at 11 Tenet hospitals threaten strike

October 27, 2020

• Ballad suspends elective surgeries in Tenn. | CHS sells 2 Texas hospitals | A record week for new COVID-19 cases in US: Positivity, spread rates by state | Hospital chiefs prep for 'long war' against cyberattacks | Only 25 ICU beds open in ND

October 26, 2020

• Intermountain, Sanford to form 70-hospital system | COVID-19 hospitalizations up 40% from Sept. | Tenn. hospital suspends elective surgeries; Texas plans field hospital; Utah discusses care rationing | HCA records $668M profit in Q3

October 25, 2020

• US sees 75K+ new cases in 1 day | 'Urgent crisis' as more hospitals hit capacity | Chicago area to lose 14th hospital in 20 yrs. | 3 cities sue over threats to COVID-19 aid | Fla. system shakes up leadership | 11 big ideas in healthcare innovation

October 24, 2020

• [By the numbers] 24 exec moves | Hospitals return $2.3B in aid | 9 financially strong hospitals | Healthgrades' best hospitals for cardiac care | 10 Google search terms predict COVID-19 hotspots | M&A: 10 latest hospital deals

October 23, 2020

• US hits new high for single-day COVID-19 cases: 83,757 | Positivity rates by state | CHS divests Texas hospital | Ga. hospital closes | Hospital chiefs warn of potentially worse COVID-19 surge | Surgeon sues Cincinnati Children's for retaliation

October 22, 2020

• COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record high in 16 states | U of Utah Hospital suspends elective surgeries | Ga. hospital closes | 4 CEO moves | Calif. county fires health system board | CMS delays cancer payment model | How to bolster margins + security

October 21, 2020

• Hospital chiefs warn of potentially worse COVID-19 wave; cases up in nearly every US region | 5,300 physicians, scientists denounce herd immunity | Tenet sees $197M loss in Q3 | Amazon strengthening bench to acquire, manage providers

October 20, 2020

• COVID-19 positivity + spread rates by state | Where Trump, Biden stand on 4 big healthcare issues | 9 financially strong hospitals + 10 seeking CEOs | CommonSpirit, BCBS of Texas split to affect thousands | 4 healthcare execs charged in $55M scheme

October 19, 2020

• COVID-19 hospitalizations up in 39 states | Hospitals return $2.3B fed'l aid | Calif. systems refused, delayed COVID-19 transfers due to patients' insurance | Trinity delays Epic EHR install | CVS to hire 15,000 for flu season

October 18, 2020

• [By the numbers] 21 exec moves | 10 things learned about COVID-19 so far | 11 new telehealth services covered by Medicare | HCA to return $6B in fed'l aid | 15 hospital building projects costing $1B+

October 17, 2020

• New COVID-19 cases highest since July + positivity rates by state | Kan. hospital CEO, employees infected | Mass., NY hospitals to end inpatient care | Jefferson, Intermountain cut hundreds of jobs | 4 counties that haven't reported a single COVID-19 case

October 16, 2020

• COVID-19 cases up in 41 states; 3rd surge likely begun | Ambulance diversion, field facilities + surgery changes: Midwestern hospitals cope with virus volumes | Trump, Biden town halls: 5 healthcare notes | 47 hospitals that closed, filed for bankruptcy

October 15, 2020

• 'Regional COVID storm' hits rural US | 6 CEO moves | M Health Fairview, UC Health + 6 more hospitals laying off workers | How to manage the COVID-19 patient backlog | Pa. physician pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in patient death

October 14, 2020

• 20 states record COVID-19 highs - positivity, spread rates by state | UnitedHealth posts $3.2B profit | 5 called-off hospital mergers | Neb. hospital CEO resigns | Catholic Health to build hospital in NY | Scrubs co. hit for problematic marketing

October 13, 2020

• COVID-19 hospitalizations at 6-week high | Boston Children's names CEO | NY hospital to stop inpatient care | Calif. system investigated over wait times | Mo. hospital chief put on leave | 171 COVID-19 testing sites ordered to close

October 12, 2020

• CDC underlines need to curb COVID-19 spread among young adults | Lab submits 400k results in 1 day + stalls Fla. COVID-19 reporting | 1,500 Mayo employees can work from home long term | Trinity's annual revenue dips to $18.8B | Aetna to shed jobs

October 11, 2020

• [By the numbers] Cleveland Clinic's top 10 innovations for '21 | 19 exec moves | Atrium, Wake Forest form 42-hospital system | 7 hospitals with strong finances | 5 states with most, fewest COVID-19 restrictions

October 10, 2020

• COVID-19 positivity rates by state | Texas hospital CEO to depart | UPMC defends ads | Kaiser partners with Best Buy Health | Lawyer charged in $25M hospital extortion case | Physicians leave Kan. hospital over CEO

October 9, 2020

• Ill. sees most COVID-19 cases since May | HCA returns $6B in fed'l aid | CHS settles data breach for $5M | Atrium, Wake Forest finalize merger; 2 NY systems consider deal | 14 systems opening hospitals | 5 states with highest, lowest flu shot rates

October 8, 2020

• Wis. to open field hospital for COVID-19 surge | VP debate: 6 healthcare takeaways | SC hospital fires back at physicians claiming 'abysmal' care | 10 CEO moves | Virus positivity + spread rates by state | Calif. nurses at 2 systems begin 5-day strikes

October 7, 2020

• 7 states see record COVID-19 hospitalizations | Patient shot at UCLA hospital | HHS ties hospital funding to COVID-19 data | NY hospital exec to lead Chicago's public health system | UPMC defends ads against claims of 'puffery'

October 6, 2020

• Minn. system lays off 900 | Citing CEO, physicians leave Kan. hospital | Pence, Harris debate: 4 things to know | UHS hospitals back online after 8 days | 9 exec resignations | Trump again compares COVID-19 to flu | Allina tech workers strike

October 5, 2020

• Trump's treatment, care team, hospitalization + 5 COVID-19 updates | UHS' EHR still down | COVID-19 positivity + spread rates by state | 7 hospitals with strong finances | Investors extracted $400M from hospital chain that couldn't afford supplies

October 4, 2020

• [By the numbers] 100 of the largest hospitals + systems | 21 executive moves | Fastest-growing healthcare jobs, ranked | 33 states with COVID-19 testing far below recommended levels

October 3, 2020

• Trump hospitalized, taking remdesivir | 11 COVID-19 cases linked to debate at Cleveland Clinic | States ranked by COVID-19 positivity rates | CommonSpirit's annual operating loss shrinks to $550M | 86 charged in $4.5B telemed scheme

October 2, 2020

• Trump quarantines after positive COVID-19 test | Advocate Aurora, Beaumont call off merger | Wis. leaders grapple with new high of COVID-19 hospitalizations | HHS to get $20B to providers | Mayo, IRS face off | UHS' IT network down 5 days after attack

October 1, 2020

• COVID-19 cases up in 25 states | Pay frozen for 13,500 at Fla. system | 4 CEO moves | Ind. hospital fires employee after New York Times interview | 'Not a good week': IT execs react to ransomware attacks | UnitedHealth, Anthem curb telehealth coverage

September 30, 2020

• Wis. hospitals are canceling surgeries as COVID-19 cases surge | Presidential debate: 7 healthcare takeaways | 33 states with testing far below recommended rates | Employees detail chaos at UHS hospitals in IT outage | BayCare, Tampa airport partner

September 29, 2020

• 'Security issue' takes down IT at 26 UHS hospitals | Trump, Biden debate at Cleveland Clinic: 5 things to know | More COVID-19 cases tied to Brigham and Women's; clusters ID'ed at Erlanger, CHI Memorial hospitals | UC Health, Wellforce lay off workers

September 28, 2020

• 2 Ga. hospitals to close | COVID-19 test positivity rate above 20% in 2 states | 100 largest hospitals, systems | Kaiser unions: 85K workers deserve bonus | Texas issues disaster declaration over brain-eating amoeba | Safest states for schools to reopen

September 27, 2020

• [By the numbers] 16 exec moves | These are the 10 healthiest US communities | 10 big ideas in healthcare innovation | 12 health system malware, ransomware and phishing incidents | 10 states where private insurers pay the most, least relative to Medicare

September 26, 2020

• UnitedHealth accused of deflating reimbursements | Sam's Club launches $1 telehealth visits | Trump's healthcare EOs: 6 takeaways | Texas hospital to break from Baylor Scott & White | How your team's COVID-19 response compares to other organizations

September 25, 2020

• Trump signs healthcare orders: 6 things to know | Wis. COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record high | 9 hospitals laying off workers | At least 8 orgs employed Tenn. nurse imposter | Mayo Clinic Health System president to retire

September 24, 2020

• Trump preps healthcare orders | 4 CEO moves | Health systems divided over COVID-19 transmission | 5 fired for snooping George Floyd's EMR | Hospitals in limbo over Medicare loans | 4-day Neb. Medicine computer system outage wreaks havoc

September 23, 2020

• Wis. declares health emergency after virus surge | Ascension sees $1B annual loss | Donors to Beaumont: Delay Advocate Aurora merger | Tampa General, Philips ink 7-year digital deal | 10 healthiest communities | BCBS of Mich. offers 8,500+ workers buyouts

September 22, 2020

• New guidance posted by mistake, CDC says | SD, Wis. + Idaho top COVID-19 positivity rates: 50 states ranked | Mayo workers get back pay, bonuses | Tenet, CHS, UHS shares drop | 9 hospitals laying off workers | Sam's Club starts $1 telehealth visits

September 21, 2020

• CDC quietly revises guidance on COVID-19 transmission, testing | Ky. hospital hits capacity | Geisinger fires employee for wrongly accessing 700+ patients' records | HCA employees get bonus pay | Chicago nurses return to work after weeklong strike

September 20, 2020

• [By the numbers] 20 exec moves | CHS' 7 latest hospital divestitures, closures | 10 ACOs with the most shared savings | 10 states with the highest, lowest vaccination rates | 6 hospitals with new names

September 19, 2020

• After 'baptism by fire,' hospitals say they're better prepared for COVID-19 | 1,200 UF Health physicians, faculty won't get bonuses | Mass General Brigham has new COO | 6 leaders behind Quorum | HCA, SSM curb services at hospitals

September 18, 2020

• Mayo rolls out new COVID-19 tracker | Quality of care investigation stalls Mo. hospital sale | HHS changed testing guidelines despite CDC objections | Fla. system hires Disney exec | CMS' final dialysis, cancer payment models: 5 things to know

September 17, 2020

• SSM, Mission Health reallocate services | Minn. hospital shooting follows nurses' asks for more security | NY hospital returns 3,426 furloughed workers | Idaho has top COVID-19 positivity rate: Where all 50 states stand

September 16, 2020

• 8 financially strong systems | Northwestern plans outpatient hub for Chicago's South Side | FTC wants Texas to resist CHS' hospital sales | 6 CEO moves + turnover rates by state | Viewpoint: Plan on an unusual 2021, too | Top 10 specialties for telemed

September 15, 2020

• World sees record COVID-19 case increase | Physician shot outside Minn. hospital | HCA to curb services at Calif. hospital | Hackensack Meridian, RWJBarnabas, Horizon launch insurance co. | How CVS Coram streamlined RCM across 90 sites

September 14, 2020

• Midwest COVID-19 cases skyrocket: 9 nat'l updates | Nurses strike for 3rd day at Chicago hospital | Fire closes UPMC hospital indefinitely | Trump signs EO to lower drug prices | Amazon to hire 100,000 | SC hospital disputes nonrenewal of CEO's contract

September 13, 2020

• [By the numbers] 20 exec moves | Where furloughs stand at 92 hospitals + systems | 20 bold predictions for health IT | 8 latest hospital closures + 13 systems opening hospitals

September 12, 2020

• COVID-19 test positivity rates + new cases by state | Patient sues UPMC after suffering burns in OR | What recovery centers have learned from COVID-19 'long-haulers' | 'We feel like we were data shamed,' says Christus exec

September 11, 2020

• COVID-19 may have hit LA as early as Dec. | 8 CEO moves | Fire top execs + delay merger, says former Beaumont trustee | Nat'l healthcare scorecard: Where'd your state rank? | Jefferson plans $762M pavilion | Ill. system to join Northwestern Medicine

September 10, 2020

• Audio raises questions on Trump's private, public COVID-19 response | Hospital workers snooped George Floyd's EMR | Boston Children's CEO to retire | Feds indict NYC OB-GYN on suspicion of long-running patient abuse | Q2 results: Kaiser, Allina + 6 more

September 9, 2020

• The status of furloughs at 92 hospitals + systems | Blackbaud security breach hits Atrium, NorthShore + 9 more systems | U of Ill. files suit to stop planned nurses strike | HHS to let pharmacists give COVID-19 vaccines: 4 pandemic updates

September 8, 2020

• CEOs depart Quorum, UHS | US sees lowest daily COVID-19 case count in nearly 3 mos. | CHS, Fla. hospital to cut ties | Physician quits over $11K COVID-19 test | What Google pays for 18 tech jobs

September 6, 2020

• [By the numbers] 26 hospitals returning furloughed employees | CMS' 2021 inpatient payment rule: 7 things to know | 7 systems with strong finances | 50 states ranked from healthiest to unhealthiest

September 5, 2020

• Fla. hospital closes | Mayo pauses luxury hotel | HCA hospital staff link patient death to device malfunction, understaffing | Mo. hospital CEO resigns | Nurse accused of working without mask may face criminal probe

September 4, 2020

• Warp Speed leader: 'Very low chance' vaccine will be ready in Oct. | COVID-19 positivity rates by state + where new cases are up, down + flat | 5 systems make Forbes' list of top employers | Surgeon sues Orlando Health, alleges forced in-network referrals

September 3, 2020

• CDC: Prep for vaccine distribution as soon as late Oct. | CMS' 2021 inpatient payment rule: 7 notes | Dr. Atul Gawande: Why COVID-19 testing is 'messed up as pile of coat hangers' | Ascension, Ballad to reopen hospitals

September 2, 2020

• Fla. drops Quest over COVID-19 test backlog | 1,300 Chicago nurses set date for weeklong strike | Mo. hospital CEO resigns | Essentia pitches $1B plan for 2,500 more ICU beds | Nurse accused of working sans mask may face criminal probe

September 1, 2020

• Mayo hits pause on luxury hotel | HCA hospital staff link device malfunction, patient death to understaffing | 7 systems with strong finances + 26 hospitals bringing back furloughed employees | Texas hospital cancels elective surgeries due to power outage

August 31, 2020

• Fla. hospital closes today | 20 exec moves | Pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths outpacing those of adults | Workers picket at 11 Tenet hospitals | Northwell records $329M loss

August 29, 2020

• Today's COVID-19 positivity rates + new cases by state | CMS threatens to pull Chicago hospital's Medicare contract | Ballad fires surgeon who asked CEO to make incision | Ascension move to outsource IT will eliminate 'few hundred' jobs

August 28, 2020

• 3,000 health depts. push back on new testing guidance | La. hospital evacuates | CMS to require positive COVID-19 test results for pay boost | Hawaii hospitals need nurses | Dignity hospital CEO resigns | Cleveland Clinic delays opening of London hospital

August 27, 2020

• Hospitals face closure as Medicare deadline for loan repayment nears | 'Recipe for community spread' - Leaders react to CDC's new stance on testing | How Texas, La. systems prepped for Hurricane Laura | 10 CEO moves | 10 colleges with most COVID-19 cases

August 26, 2020

• CDC changes stance on testing for asymptomatic people | Feds to hospitals: Report COVID-19 data or lose funding | 'Not no, but hell no' — Erlanger, local officials reject $475M private equity bid | Ballad fired surgeon who asked CEO to make surgical cut

August 25, 2020

• Tenn. hospital CEO exits after making surgical incision | Ascension's IT plan will eliminate 'few hundred' jobs + 38 hospitals laying off workers | 650+ nurses lose confidence in Beaumont execs | Biogen conference linked to 20k COVID-19 cases

August 24, 2020

• 1st case of COVID-19 reinfection confirmed; FDA OKs plasma — 5 nat'l updates | 24 hospitals bringing back furloughed employees | Baylor Scott & White CFO resigns | UHS to install Epic at nearly 400 locations | Mayo invests $50M in UAE hospital

August 23, 2020

• [By the numbers] 10 systems with strong finances | 23 exec moves | 13 big ideas in healthcare innovation | 10 M&A deals by the numbers | 14 rural hospital closures in 2020

August 22, 2020

• Today's COVID-19 positivity rates + new cases by state | Fla. hospital ends Medicare contract | Ga. hospital to close | Don't write off neck gaiters yet, researchers say | CMS finds hospital violated patient rights with 'informal' COVID-19 testing policy

August 21, 2020

• Mayo's operating income drops 49% | Tenn. hospital CEO steps down + 6 CEO exits | Union sues HCA, claims it advanced COVID-19 spread | Study suggests children with coronavirus more contagious than adults | UCSF starts COVID-19 staff morale fund

August 20, 2020

• Another Ga. hospital to close | Fla. hospital ends Medicare contract | COVID-19 cases fall nationwide for 4th week + positivity, spread rates by state | Wildfires force evacuation of Calif. hospital

August 19, 2020

• Beaumont leaders lose physicians' confidence | CMS to up pay for COVID-19 care | 10 systems with strong finances | Cleveland Clinic, Aetna partner for ACO + health plan | The problem with 'too much' optimism

August 18, 2020

• Don't write off neck gaiters yet, researchers say | FDA warns of false results from specific COVID-19 test | USPS delays leaving some patients without prescriptions | Senate Republicans plan scaled-back relief package | 8 exec retirements

August 17, 2020

• Physician grievances delay Beaumont-Advocate Aurora merger | COVID-19 testing rates fall for 1st time | NH hospital postpones surgeries over sterilization issues | HHS CIO resigns; 2 senior CDC officials depart | Sale saves Calif. hospital

August 16, 2020

• [By the numbers] 27 exec moves | 18 latest hospital closures, state by state | 351 hospitals with best, worst patient experience rating | 20 most expensive drugs in the US | 15 states with the most, fewest COVID-19 restrictions

August 15, 2020

• COVID-19 positivity rates + new cases by state: Aug. 15 | Fauci: Temp checks 'notoriously inaccurate' | HHS to send $1.4B in relief aid to children's hospitals | Houston hospital closes | Prime adds 46th hospital | 8 execs on dangerous health IT trends

August 14, 2020

• Texas launches probe of COVID-19 positivity rates | CEO of Tufts Medical Center resigns | Epic reverses on-campus return policy | Where Congress' COVID-19 relief deal stands | Healthcare groups update elective surgery guidance

August 13, 2020

• US sees virus' deadliest day of summer | 9 CEO moves | 85 hospitals with 1 star from CMS | Chicago activists demand mayor, governor keep Mercy open | NewYork-Presbyterian CXO: How will we rebuild patients' trust? | NJ hospital faces defamation suit

August 12, 2020

• HHS has week-plus lags in COVID-19 data | Police search for shooter in La. hospital | Houston hospital closes | Kamala Harris + healthcare: 6 notes on policy positions | 266 hospitals with 5 CMS stars for patient experience | Sentara, Cone Health to merge

August 11, 2020

• This face covering is worse than not wearing a mask | COVID-19 positivity rate per state; Wash. hasn't reported in days | Physician leaders see new job opportunities | 922 healthcare workers have likely died from coronavirus

August 10, 2020

• Trump's 4 exec orders on COVID-19 aid: 5 takeaways | Northwestern postpones care due to looting in Chicago | COVID-19 positivity rates + new cases by state | Calif. health official abruptly resigns | 22 hospitals bringing back furloughed employees

August 9, 2020

• [By the numbers] 16 exec moves | 9 systems with strong finances | 10 best, worst states for healthcare | Salary stats: CRNAs, PAs and residents | 10 hospitals with new names | Medicare payment rules for 2021: 11 notes

August 8, 2020

• Kaiser more than doubles net income in Q2 | Fla. hospital to close | New COVID-19 cases + test positivity rates, by state: Aug. 8 | 45 hospitals want Kuwait to pay off its $677.4M debt | Couple claims hospital lost body of newborn baby

August 7, 2020

• Calif. hospital employees urged to vote no confidence in CEO | LA may cut power on large gatherings: 7 nat'l updates | Advocate Aurora closes most COVID-19 testing sites | 7 called-off hospital mergers | CHS' sale of Texas hospital delayed

August 6, 2020

• 9 cities seeing COVID-19 case increases | 12 CEO moves | Feds sue to block Geisinger hospital deal | Moderna to charge up to $37 for COVID-19 vaccine | 11 hospitals return $192M in CARES Act payments | CMS proposes star ratings changes

August 5, 2020

• Fla. hospital to close | 6 states form testing pact | CMS floats '21 outpatient payment rule: 5 takeaways | Walmart Health, Haven execs resign | What US News' top 10 hospitals are doing about health disparities | 2 Tenet hospitals end inpatient care

August 4, 2020

• COVID-19: New cases, positivity rates + virus spread by state | 6 exec resignations | PA salary medians by state | CMS unveils '21 physician payment rule | Tenet more than triples Q2 net income | Henry Ford chiefs slam politicization of hydroxychloroquine

August 3, 2020

• US enters new phase of pandemic, Birx says | 9 health systems with strong finances + 19 hospitals bringing back furloughed workers | Mo. hospital loses Medicare contract | 10 best, worst states for healthcare in 2020

August 2, 2020

• [By the numbers] The No. 1 hospital in each state | 19 exec moves | 17 hospitals bringing back furloughed employees | 10 big ideas in health IT from 28 leaders | 10 physician specialties that generate most hospital revenue

August 1, 2020

• 'I'm fighting a war against stupidity,' says Texas CMO | Trinity tried for 18 mos. to sell Chicago hospital | Appeals court finds 340B payment cuts legal | COVID-19: Where new cases are up, down, flat; survivors ID 98 effects | CHS near last divestures

July 31, 2020

• States with fastest, slowest virus spread | HHS data system plagued by delays | Brigham president exits Moderna board | Beaumont brings back 1,360 furloughed employees | NY hospital's computers down for 5+ days | 6 hospitals laying off furloughed workers

July 30, 2020

• US has new hot spot plan | W.Va. hospital closes | 18 Fla. anesthesiologists get COVID-19 | Mayo is advising McDonald's | Positivity rates + new cases by state | NJ hospital CEO to step down + 8 more CEO moves | How much fed'l aid HCA, CHS + UHS got in Q2

July 29, 2020

• Chicago hospital to close | 4 states may face new COVID-19 surges | CHS to divest final 5 hospitals | CVS, Walgreens customer info exposed | Anthem doubles profit | 1,000+ health pros want crisis response 'reset' | Feds indict MD imposter w/ virus 'cure'

July 28, 2020

• US News: 20 best hospitals + No. 1 by state | COVID-19 cases flattening in hot spots: Positivity, spread rates by state | GOP unveils $1T relief package: 9 things to know | Some Texas hospitals resume surgeries | Trump's meeting with pharma execs canceled

July 27, 2020

• Ga. hospital to close | New cases stabilize; more young people dying in South: 5 COVID-19 updates | GOP expected to release fed'l aid bill today: 7 things to know | Carilion completes purchase of Stonewall Jackson Hospital, renames it

July 26, 2020

• [By the numbers] 17 exec moves | 14 hospitals with most ER visits | 14 hospitals bringing back furloughed workers | 10 states with most, fewest COVID-19 restrictions | PA salaries, by state | 10 concerning health IT trends | 8 common negotiations missteps

July 25, 2020

• COVID-19 hospitalization rates in 20 metro areas | Texas hospital to turn away coronavirus patients with poor survival chances | Trump signs 4 orders on drug prices | Kan. hospital ceases inpatient care | HCA records $1B profit in Q2

July 24, 2020

• HHS renews public health emergency + positivity, spread rates by state | Beaumont board to physicians: We're not 'selling' our system | Banner expects $1B revenue hit + 9 hospital layoffs, closures | Fla., La. and Calif. hospitals need staff by hundreds

July 23, 2020

• COVID-19 hospitalizations near April peak | Walmart wants clinics in Fla., Ill. | Fed'l aid for hot spot hospitals, state by state | Kan. hospital stops inpatient care | Miss. 'utterly failed' to contain virus, hospital group says

July 22, 2020

• 9 CEO moves | New cases, positivity rates + spread: COVID-19 stats by state | HCA sees $1B profit in Q2 | Physicians signal no confidence in Beaumont CEO, CMO | Pandemic will likely 'get worse before it gets better,' Trump says — 4 nat'l updates

July 21, 2020

• AHA: Hospital margins could sink to -7% | States ranked: COVID-19 positivity + spread rates | Fla. system returns 640 furloughed workers + 13 more hospitals doing the same | Ga. strikes deal for COVID-19 test results within 48 hrs

July 20, 2020

• 20 exec moves | COVID-19 hospitalizations on sustained rise; states ranked by positivity + spread rates | Trump to sign healthcare plan in coming weeks | Nearly 800 Calif. hospital workers start 5-day strike | NIH updates remdesivir treatment guidelines

July 19, 2020

• [By the numbers] 8 health systems with strong finances | Avg. base salaries for 20 recruited medical specialties | How much hospitals in each state get from HHS' $4B aid package | 14 CEO moves | 6 hospitals that cut inpatient care this year

July 18, 2020

• CEO: Jackson Health on 'disastrous' financial course | FEMA sends refrigerated mortuary trucks to Texas: 4 virus updates | Amazon to open 20 employee health hubs in 5 cities | Michael Dowling: COVID-19 put my system through hell and back

July 17, 2020

• COVID-19 positivity + spread rates by state | Fla., Texas, SC see record virus death counts — 5 nat'l updates | How much hospitals in each state get from HHS' $4B aid package | 12-hospital CHI Franciscan-Virginia Mason may join CommonSpirit

July 16, 2020

• Fla. COVID-19 hospitalizations by county | Positivity, spread rates by state | 30+ Ariz. hospitals apply for staffing aid | Russian hackers target vaccine research | CDC, HHS leaders talk data transfer decision | BJC shakes up exec teams + 14 CEO moves

July 15, 2020

• By state: COVID-19 positivity rates, spread + confirmed cases | Ga., Piedmont ink deal for more beds | UnitedHealth's earnings double in Q2 | Hospitals: Emerging COVID-19 consultants for employers? | Merck CEO: Vaccine hype is 'grave disservice'

July 14, 2020

• States ranked: COVID-19 positivity rates + virus spread | NY hospital closes ICU, lays off nurses | Avg. salaries for 20 medical specialties | 3 states account for 18% of world's cases: 6 coronavirus updates | Novant wins bid for NC hospital

July 13, 2020

• 26 states with fastest, slowest virus spread | AdventHealth CEO as Fla. sees 15K cases in 1 day: 'I wouldn't hesitate to go to Disney' | Michael Dowling: COVID-19 put my system through hell + back | 8 systems with strong finances

July 12, 2020

• [By the numbers] 26 executive moves | 10 most, least concentrated hospital markets | 10 hospitals with best CEO-to-worker pay ratios | 20 healthcare cos. that returned PPP loans | 3 biases that sway CEOs' crisis response

July 11, 2020

• Military sends medical staff to Houston | Ga. hospital CEOs to gov: Reopen field hospital so we can continue surgeries | Where COVID-19 is spreading fastest, slowest | Hospitals with halted elective surgeries, by state | HHS to get $4B more to hospitals

July 10, 2020

• Which hospitals have halted elective surgeries? A list, by state | COVID-19 surge worse than spring; death rate resumes climb — 9 updates | 48 Fla. hospitals at ICU capacity | 9 hospitals return $166.5M in CARES Act payments

July 9, 2020

• Many hospitals continue elective surgeries; US COVID-19 cases up 72% in 2 weeks | States with fastest, slowest virus spread | 9 CEO moves | COVID-19 testing delays: 13 things to know today | 20 healthcare companies that returned their PPP loans

July 8, 2020

• 50 Fla. hospital ICUs are at capacity; US sunbelt is global COVID-19 epicenter | 27 states where COVID-19 is spreading fastest, slowest | Walgreens to open 500+ medical clinics | 'It's an insult': Nurses from South, West say many there doubt virus threat

July 7, 2020

• Surgeries halted at some Fla., Ala., Calif. hospitals | 28 states with fastest, slowest virus spread | Fauci: US still 'knee-deep' in 1st wave | A psychologist's case against 'social-distancing shaming' | 20 hospitals top new ranking for civic leadership

July 6, 2020

• Where COVID-19 is spreading fastest, slowest: 22 states | 44 Fla. hospitals' ICUs are full + capacity updates out of Texas, Calif. and Ariz. | 700+ Ill. nurses strike | HealthPartners to lay off 200, close clinics | US insurers curb telehealth coverage

July 5, 2020

• [By the numbers] 8 hospitals giving workers COVID-19 bonuses | CHS' shrinking hospital portfolio: 8 latest divestitures | 10 actions for executives to advance racial equity | 36 critical access hospital closures, state by state | 15 top health systems

July 3, 2020

• Young adults are throwing COVID-19 parties | CHS, Advocate Aurora sell hospitals | University Hospitals, NASA partner up for tech to clean PPE | Lack of adequate supplies hurting nurses' psychological health

July 2, 2020

• 26 states with fastest, slowest COVID-19 spread | Missing hospital data in Texas raises questions | South Fla. hospitals halt surgeries | Trinity, Erlanger + 10 more systems laying off workers | 11 CEO moves

July 1, 2020

• Stay home July 4, officials urge as 6 states report new COVID-19 records | Surgery pause in Texas may hurt hospital operators' credit | Mayo to advise Delta Air Lines | 10 actions to meaningfully advance racial equity | Trinity furloughs, lays off 1,000

June 30, 2020

• More Texas hospitals must stop surgeries | COVID-19's cost to hospitals: $323B | 25 states with fastest, slowest virus spread | Ga. hospitals refuse to share bed data | IBM Watson's top 100 hospitals + 15 systems | Trinity cuts jobs

June 29, 2020

• Texas Medical Center ICU data missing for 3 days | Where COVID-19 cases are rising, falling, flat | Cleveland Clinic advises United, whose CEO rejects social distancing | UCSF pays $1M+ to unlock computers | 9 hospitals bringing back furloughed workers

June 28, 2020

• [By the numbers] 14 health systems with strong finances | 42 hospitals closed, filed for bankruptcy | PA median base salaries, by state | CMS' proposed home health payment rule: 3 things to know | 10 states with most essential workers in healthcare

June 27, 2020

• New COVID-19 cases top 45,000 for first time | Pence: 'We still have work to do' | 12 states with fastest virus spread | Texas hospitals maintain they have capacity amid 15th record-setting day for hospitalizations | Mayo ends furloughs early

June 26, 2020

• Texas, Fla. pause reopening as US daily COVID-19 cases hit new high | White House asks Supreme Court to strike ACA | HCA nurses start 10-day strike at Calif. hospital | AAMC: Physician shortage could top 139,000 by 2033 | Quorum sells Ill. hospital

June 25, 2020

• Elective surgeries suspended in 4 Texas counties | 'People have completely let their guard down,' Houston Methodist CEO says as US cases hit all-time high | Mayo Clinic ends furloughs early | US News says it erred in children's hospital specialty rankings

June 24, 2020

• 7 states see record COVID-19 hospitalizations | Hospitals lose lawsuit over price disclosure | Cleveland Clinic names 1st chief caregiver officer | COVID-19 deaths by state | Penn State Health to acquire Geisinger hospital | 38 exec retirements

June 23, 2020

• COVID-19 cases jump in 26 states | Texas Children's admits adult patients as cases surge | 42 hospital closures, bankruptcies | White House set to ask Supreme Court to overturn ACA: 4 notes | 25 most environmentally friendly hospitals

June 22, 2020

• 9 exec moves | Cleveland Clinic cancels raises | 11 states with fastest COVID-19 spread | White House preps for 2nd wave — 4 updates | Hospitals get $30B in infrastructure bill | 36 Chicago health providers: Racism is a 'public health crisis'

June 21, 2020

• [By the numbers] 10 best children's hospitals, ranked by US News | Best business schools for innovation | Healthgrades recognizes 880 hospitals for patient safety, experience | 8 latest PE deals in healthcare | 7 health systems report $1B+ losses in Q1

June 20, 2020

• Michigan Medicine to lay off 738 | Erlanger eliminates 11 leadership jobs | 3 hospital execs describe COVID-19 surges in Texas, Fla. | Man missing for month found dead on Mass. hospital campus | HCA to exit Miss. | Beaumont, Advocate Aurora may merge

June 19, 2020

• When will 'normal life' return? 511 epidemiologists weigh in | Man charged in theft of 65,000 UPMC employees' data | NewYork-Presbyterian CXO's message for white colleagues | Baylor Scott & White to close 3 clinics | 11 hospital projects costing $300M+

June 18, 2020

• Hospital workers find fault with bosses' COVID-19 plans | Where new cases are up, down + flat, state by state | Judge tosses false claims suit against CHS | 4 CEO moves + 10 hospitals hiring CEOs | Mass General Brigham cuts exec pay

June 17, 2020

• 9 states see record COVID-19 jumps | Beaumont, Advocate Aurora deal would form 36-hospital system | US will see 'baby bust' with 500k fewer 2021 births | Security guard fatally shot patient, guard at Ind. hospital | 7 systems with billion-dollar losses

June 16, 2020

• 2 dead in Ind. hospital shooting | 10 best children's hospitals: US News | Kaiser computers down for 5 hours | Pa. system cuts 1,000 jobs | COVID-19 activity by region | Analysis: Atrium, Duke and Novant's bids for the same hospital

June 15, 2020

• 15 exec moves | A case against using the term 'second wave' | Erlanger eliminates 11 leadership jobs | NYC may go into lockdown again | 8 states with fastest, slowest spread of COVID-19 | HHS rolls back nondiscrimination rules: 5 things to know

June 14, 2020

• [By the numbers] 10 states with most, fewest COVID-19 restrictions | How 8 health system execs are revising their marketing | 130 rural hospital closures, state by state | Top 10 states for physicians to practice

June 13, 2020

• Nonprofit hospital execs' pay in IRS crosshairs | Texas system refiles for bankruptcy; Houston hospital to close | CMS encourages return to in-person care: 8 things to know | Duke pitches $3B deal for NC hospital | 7 CEO moves

June 12, 2020

• Fed'l COVID-19 aid for safety-net hospitals, state-by-state | Hospitals brace for rise in cancer cases | NM hospital fires CEO | Houston may revive lockdown | 5 system execs: What I need from my IT team right now | How IU Health is avoiding layoffs

June 11, 2020

• 7 CEO moves | Nurses sue Tenet | Where new COVID-19 cases are rising, falling, flat | Novant makes $5B offer to NC hospital | New IRS rules target nonprofit hospital exec pay | How Geisinger is preparing for a second wave | Trinity gets $2.2B bailout

June 10, 2020

• CMS encourages return to in-person care: 8 things to know | COVID-19 cases up in 19 states — 6 updates | Duke pitches $3B deal for NC hospital | 10 states with most, fewest COVID-19 restrictions | Montefiore CEO: I fought COVID-19 + racism, only beat one

June 9, 2020

• WHO walks back asymptomatic spread comments | Houston hospital to close | HHS to dole out $35B more from CARES Act: 6 things to know | COVID-19 activity by region: Cases ramp up in rural areas | What worries Mayo, Cleveland Clinic CEOs about delayed care

June 8, 2020

• 12 exec moves | COVID-19 cases jump in 23 states | Kaiser returns $500M from CARES Act | 10 execs name the defining tech of next 10 years | Providence cuts providers' salaries | Americans still more likely to trust private companies to change healthcare

June 7, 2020

• [By the numbers] 27 systems' Q1 results | 13 hospitals where execs resigned so far this year | 5 hospital name changes | 7 systems opening hospitals | 29 hospital bankruptcies

June 6, 2020

• NY hospital closes ED | Physicians acquire 35-hospital Steward | Kaiser terminates employee that inappropriately accessed 2,756 patient records | Racial disparities & COVID-19: Why it matters in healthcare

June 5, 2020

• 10 most in-demand specialties | Rising, falling, flat: New COVID-19 cases, state by state | Q1 results: Mayo, UPMC, SSM, Northwell, Henry Ford + 20 more systems | Talks resume for Lifespan, Care New England | ThedaCare, UHS execs take pay cuts

June 4, 2020

• 10 financially strong systems | University Hospitals cuts physician, clinical leaders' pay | 9 states with fastest COVID-19 spread | Prime puts millions into Calif. safety-net hospital | Chicagoans struggle to get prescriptions | CMS extends Next Gen ACO

June 3, 2020

• Coronavirus deaths by state | Racial disparities & COVID-19: 8 things every leader must know | US economy will shrink $8T | 13 exec resignations so far this year | Physicians buy 35-hospital Steward from PE firm | Calif. AG wants to slow healthcare M&A

June 2, 2020

• Rise, fall of COVID-19 spread by region | Unrest drives testing site closures; Chicago hospitals cancel elective surgeries | How 8 healthcare leaders are calling for social justice | Northwell gets $1B via CARES Act | 50 top cancer hospitals: 2000 v. 2020

June 1, 2020

• 16 exec moves | Minn. hospitals on 'verge of being overrun' | UCLA hospitals CEO: Public 'very frightened of hospitals'; poll shows that's changing | 10 states needing most financial help | 700+ nurses OK walkout at Ill. hospital

May 31, 2020

• [By the numbers] Estimated volume loss in 30 service lines | 10 states with best, worst health infrastructure | 20 large hospital networks received $5B in federal bailout funds | 266 hospitals furloughing workers

May 30, 2020

• Baylor Scott & White to lay off 1,200 | Mergers abandoned for Beaumont, Summa; 4 Chicago hospitals | Patient experience 'never events' from 16 execs at Cleveland Clinic, HCA, Providence & more | Ascension reports $2.7B Q3 net loss

May 29, 2020

• Erlanger defends leadership against claim of 'chaos' | Keck CEO Thomas Jackiewicz leaves for UChicago | 14 states with fastest spread of COVID-19 | Beaumont, Summa call off $6.1B merger | UnitedHealth CEO faces questions over reimbursement changes

May 28, 2020

• What's worrying clinical leaders most | 4 CEO moves | Joint Commission to resume surveys next week | Emory to furlough, cut hours of up to 1,500 | Beth Israel physicians: Hospitals are paid wrong | 20 healthcare cos. with biggest annual profits

May 27, 2020

• 4 Chicago hospitals scrap merger | WHO warns of 'second peak' | States with fastest, slowest COVID-19 spread | 48% of Americans have delayed care | Ascension’s Q3 net loss: $2.7B | Dowling: 'Foolish' to bank on perfectly effective virus prevention

May 26, 2020

• Confirmed COVID-19 cases by state | 14 exec moves | Sentara, Loyola + 31 systems issue exec pay cuts as more companies center cost cuts on 'shared pain' | Funding for 4-hospital deal in Chicago falls through | 20 hospital networks get $5B in fed'l bailout

May 24, 2020

• [By the numbers] Hospital expenses per visit, state by state | 10 specialties bring in most hospital revenue | 10 most restricted states | 8 most innovative hospitals, according to 550+ hospital leaders | 10 systems with biggest CARES Act bailouts

May 23, 2020

• Gawande: 5 standards to lift lockdowns | Mercy execs retire early to cut costs | COVID-19 not easily spread via surfaces | UW Med furloughs 1,500: 'All other options exhausted' | AdventHealth cuts lab ties after unreliable COVID-19 test results I

May 22, 2020

• 15 least restricted states | US won't shut down amid potential 2nd wave: White House | NY hospital challenges Wall Street Journal | Essentia, Allegheny Health lay off hundreds | Kaiser's COVID-19 workplace playbook: 5 notes

May 21, 2020

• These 10 specialties generate most revenue for hospitals | 100 great hospitals in America | South at risk of 2nd COVID-19 wave | Scrapped, paused or in progress: Updates on $500M+ hospital projects | Fla. hospital cuts nearly 1,000 jobs

May 20, 2020

• CDC's 60-page reopening guidelines + more guidance on resuming surgeries | 10 most restricted states | BJC HealthCare furloughs nearly 3,000; 258 other hospitals with furloughs | Texas Children's to build $450M hospital | Why 15 hospitals closed this year

May 19, 2020

• Mercy execs retire early to cut costs | 10 hospitals getting most CARES Act funds | Overprepared for surges but not sorry, hospital leaders say | Prospect Medical Group scoops up 10,000 physicians | NYP's CXO on leading through 'a spring like no other'

May 18, 2020

• 15 exec moves | States ranked by confirmed COVID-19 cases | AdventHealth cuts ties with lab after 35K unreliable test results | Quarterly results: Mayo's operating income drops 88%, CommonSpirit sees $1.4B loss | Advocate Aurora nurse regrets bar visit

May 16, 2020

• 10 cities most, least likely to rebound | Nurses on quitting: 'We didn't sign up to be sacrificial lambs' | Annual pay in 20 specialties, ranked | 8 takeaways: CMS' proposed 2021 IPPS rule | ‘Planning for a new normal': Providence Ore. rolls out changes

May 15, 2020

• CDC releases new reopening guidelines | 'We're disappointed': Advocate Aurora responds to unmasked nurse at Wis. bar | 5 CEO moves + 256 hospitals furloughing workers | Hospitals with larger margins get more in fed'l bailout | Mount Sinai cuts crisis pay

May 14, 2020

• Nurses on quitting: 'We didn't sign up to be sacrificial lambs' | New relief proposal has $100B for hospitals | UPMC, Allegheny Health end pandemic payroll policies | COVID-19 by the numbers: 51 stats, dollar figures and dates to know

May 13, 2020

• Nurses on quitting: 'We didn't sign up to be sacrificial lambs' | New relief proposal has $100B for hospitals | UPMC, Allegheny Health end pandemic payroll policies | COVID-19 by the numbers: 51 stats, dollar figures and dates to know

May 12, 2020

• CMS floats '21 inpatient payment rule: 8 takeaways | Some discharged COVID-19 patients relapse — 6 virus updates | 25 hospitals getting biggest slice of fed'l bailout | Providence, WellSpan CEOs take pay cuts | UW Med forecasts $500M loss by summer's end

May 11, 2020

• 10 exec moves | Kaiser sees $1.1B loss in Q1 | Dr. Atul Gawande aims to leave Haven's CEO spot | HHS shares remdesivir distribution plan — 7 COVID-19 updates | Estimated volume loss in 30 service lines | The tech needed for less contact in hospitals

May 9, 2020

• HCA extends exec pay cuts | RN: My hospital's administrators pose a bigger threat to me than COVID-19 | 9 systems with strong finances | Now-dominant strain of coronavirus appears more contagious | Healthcare’s highest-paid CEOs in 2019

May 8, 2020

• Healthcare lost 1.4M jobs in April | Pa. hospital to close if sale collapses | 14 systems get largest fed'l bailouts | Adventist, HealthPartners add hospitals | 8 CNOs' top advice to colleagues in crisis | US needs 900K tests daily to safely reopen

May 7, 2020

• RN: My hospital's leadership team is a bigger threat to me than COVID-19 | Trump urges Supreme Court to overturn ACA | 7 CEO moves + 9 systems with strong finances | 6,000 MultiCare employees must take 17-shift furloughs; 242 other hospital furloughs

May 6, 2020

• Hospitals expect $200B hit over 4 mos. | White House maintains task force: 5 COVID-19 updates | Jefferson, Temple drop cancer center deal | DMC bans dozens of Wayne State physicians | BCBS of Ariz. prepays PCPs | Unionization effort looms at Denver Health

May 5, 2020

• Hospitals' federal aid, state by state | Hoag sues to cut Providence ties | Model predicts 200K new cases daily by June — 5 updates | Tenet swings to profit; HCA buys 2 Fla. hospitals | Michigan Med to furlough 1,400; 234 others furloughing workers

May 4, 2020

• 8 states see uptick in cases, deaths; pandemic may last 2 years — 8 updates | Hospitals losing $1.4B per day | How Stanford is resuming elective care + key dates to do so in 26 states | 13 exec moves | HHS doles out $22B to virus hotspots, rural hospitals

May 2, 2020

• Ky. hospital closes | New COVID-19 peak dates by state | CMS changes more regs, suspends Advance Payment Program | Leapfrog's 'F' and 'straight-A' hospitals | 13 execs talk COVID-19-proof IT projects | $1B+ in bailout funds go to CHS, HCA and UHS

May 1, 2020

• CMS loosens more regs: 12 notes | CDC drafts reopening guidelines | 32 'straight-A' Leapfrog hospitals | Workers denounce conditions at Tenet, HCA hospitals | Mayo mistakenly sends 302 furlough notifications | Novant starts COVID-19 burnout task force

April 30, 2020

• $1B+ in bailout funds go to CHS, HCA and UHS | OSHA investigates Ga. hospital after nurse's death | 6 delayed, called-off hospital deals | COVID-19 testing: Where US stands | March tornado exposed thousands of CHS medical records

April 29, 2020

• State by state: New COVID-19 peak dates + changes to social distancing rules | CHS turns a profit | $19M in grants to Denver Health delayed over exec bonuses | Advocate Aurora offers bonuses to 60,000+ | 216 hospitals issuing furloughs

April 28, 2020

• COVID-19 vulnerability, state by state | Denver Health CEO 'deeply sorry' for exec bonus timing | White House unveils testing plan + 5 updates | UnityPoint CEO steps down | Pa. hospital to cease inpatient care | Optum in talks for $470M telehealth buy

April 27, 2020

• 2nd set of stimulus checks out this week; Birx expects social distancing thru summer: 8 updates | 201 hospitals furloughing workers | NY systems split on hazard pay | Resuming elective surgeries: Key dates in 22 states | CMS halts Advance Payment Program

April 24, 2020

• Hospitals: US aid covers few days of revenue | When elective cases can resume in 19 states | 21% of NYC residents likely had coronavirus | Trump inks $484B relief package | Tenn. hospital reopens | Hospitals' message to those resisting social distancing

April 23, 2020

• Mayo furloughs, cuts hours of 30,000 | More think 'worst is behind us' — 4 COVID-19 updates | Calif. OKs elective surgeries; 14 leaders on toughest part of reopening ORs | CHS to sell 2 Fla. hospitals to HCA | 12 CEO, CFO moves | HHS divvies $40B in aid

April 22, 2020

• US COVID-19 deaths go back to Feb.: 7 updates | Senate passes relief deal with $75B for hospitals | Beaumont to cut 450 positions, furlough 2,475; 170 other furloughs | Atrium, Geisinger + 22 systems where execs took pay cuts, donated to help employees

April 21, 2020

• Testing holds up $450B relief package: 6 COVID-19 updates | NY nurses sue state, hospitals | HCA sees 44% drop in profit | CHS to sell Texas hospital | UPMC plans to ramp up elective surgeries despite state ban | Why 5M tests are needed daily

April 20, 2020

• CMS outlines return to elective care: 6 nat'l COVID-19 updates | 15 executive moves | Mich. investigates DMC hospital | Nurses union sends HCA cease and desist over N95s | CMS to release another $30B in hospital aid

April 18, 2020

• If nothing else, do this: 73 hospital execs in hardest-hit states offer advice to colleagues | State-by-state breakdowns: New projected apex dates + fed'l aid per COVID-19 case | Tenn., Kan. hospitals close | Social distance may be needed through 2022

April 17, 2020

• New COVID-19 apex dates for each state | Guidelines to resume elective surgeries are out | White House calls for 3-phase reopening; vaccine may be ready by fall — 6 key updates | Loyola, Munson, Lurie Children's join 137 others with furloughs

April 16, 2020

• 65 hospital execs in thick of COVID-19 surge to peers: Do this, if nothing else | Tenet furloughs 10% of staff; 128 other furloughs | Social distance may be needed thru 2022 | Fed'l plan to reopen expected today; vaccine may come sooner — 6 updates

April 15, 2020

• Hospital execs meet with Trump on new ventilator-sharing effort | 27 US, state-level COVID-19 updates | UnitedHealth posts $3.4B profit; Optum CEO to take leave of absence | How Memorial Hermann keeps employees safe + Providence responds to med shortages

April 14, 2020

• 105 hospitals issuing furloughs | HHS to add 35K+ ventilators to stockpile by June 1 — 5 COVID-19 updates | Beaumont takes lead in antibody testing | Federal aid per COVID-19 case, state by state | Blue Shield of Calif. company buys 2,700-physician group

April 13, 2020

• US ’nearing the peak,’ says CDC director | 70 vaccines in progress — 7 COVID-19 updates | CMS floats 3 payment rules for 2021: 5 takeaways | 9 exec moves; 13 credit rating downgrades | Walmart continues push into healthcare with 2 new standalone clinics

April 11, 2020

• Mayo projects $900M shortfall | New projected dates for COVID-19 apexes, state by state | MUSC Health lays off 900 + 80 hospitals furloughing workers | Quorum files for bankruptcy | How 4 systems help isolated patients connect with loved ones

April 10, 2020

• Hospitals get $81B+ in aid, advance payments | White House considers cloth gowns over disposable: 32 nat’l, state-level COVID-19 updates | Fitch puts Erlanger, Care New England + 13 others on rating watch negative | ANA urges nurses to report retaliation

April 9, 2020

• When will COVID-19 peak? An updated state-by-state analysis | National PPE stockpile depleted | Verma: $30B in hospital aid on its way | CommonSpirit turns cafeterias into grocery stores for physicians

April 8, 2020

• 1,500 symptomatic Beaumont workers stay home | Ascension CEO gives half of salary to employee fund; CHS execs take pay cuts | CMS expedites $34B in payments to hospitals | How Northwestern, UCSF + 2 systems help isolated patients connect with loved ones

April 7, 2020

• 734 Henry Ford Health employees test positive for COVID-19 | Fauci 'cautiously optimistic' US can avoid worst projections — 31 fed’l, state level updates | 20 states to face ICU bed shortages when virus peaks | Quorum files for bankruptcy

April 6, 2020

• COVID-19's spread in 10 cities, measured | 323 hospitals' crisis needs: 5 takeaways from OIG report | Ascension to protect employee pay | 27 updates from states hit hardest by COVID-19 | 8 exec moves | Hospitals continue to furlough hundreds: 9 updates

April 4, 2020

• When will COVID-19 peak? State-by-state analysis | NewYork-Presbyterian CXO’s dispatch from the front line | Trump administration to use hospital stimulus funds to cover uninsured COVID-19 treatment | Trinity to furlough 2,500 + 8 workforce reductions

April 3, 2020

• Cuomo signs EO to seize unused ventilators + 23 updates in 6 hardest-hit states | NorthShore CEO shares COVID-19 diagnosis | Quorum faces bankruptcy; Tenet furloughs 500 | NewYork-Presbyterian extends $1,250 bonus to employees on front lines

April 2, 2020

• All NYC public hospitals to become ICUs | State-by-state analysis of when COVID-19 is set to peak | Protective gear shortages cause tension between hospitals, clinicians | Trinity to furlough 2,500 + 11 other hospital furloughs | New shortages emerge

April 1, 2020

• HHS issues guide for ventilator-sharing + 5 COVID-19 updates | PPE shortage drives Chicago hospital’s ask for nurses to clean COVID-19 patient rooms | HCA CEO donates salary; Tenet freezes 401(k) matches; Geisinger, AtlantiCare sever merger

March 31, 2020

• CMS' regulatory changes: 6 notes | Cuomo: 'Distinction of private, public hospitals has to go; we're one system' | Jackson CEO tests positive for COVID-19 | Pay cuts hit Erlanger, Beth Israel, Intermountain | Fauci: Next cycle 'will be totally different'

March 30, 2020

• Pence asks hospitals for daily capacity data | The race for more beds: Updates out of 5 states | CMS expands speedy payments to hospitals | 11 exec moves | Navy ships arrive in NY, Calif. + 24 other developments in hardest-hit states

March 28, 2020

• Trump orders GM to make ventilators, inks $2T relief bill into law | Kaiser cancels $900M headquarters project | 7 pulmonologists weigh in on ventilator-sharing | Retired CEO returns to lead system's crisis staffing

March 27, 2020

• Peak demand for US hospital beds expected by mid-April | US has most detected COVID-19 cases in world + 24 updates out of hardest-hit states | Where employees have tested positive | NYC nurse who treated COVID-19 patients dies

March 26, 2020

• 2nd virus cycle 'inevitable,' Fauci says | Hospitals weigh DNRs for all COVID-19 patients | 'It's a greed decision': Paper blasts UPMC for continuing elective cases | $2T COVID-19 relief plan: What's in it for hospitals

March 25, 2020

• Federal $2T emergency aid deal moves forward | 40,000 providers join NY’s surge healthcare workforce | Mercyhealth issues furloughs; Kaiser scraps $900M HQ plan | Retired CEO is back to lead system’s pandemic staffing

March 24, 2020

• FEMA taps Defense Production Act for test kits + 6 more updates | Cuomo vows to 'turn NY upside down to get beds we need' | Chicago rents thousands of hotel rooms for those experiencing COVID-19 symptoms | Pa. hospital needs $40M or will close April 1

March 23, 2020

• States race for more hospital capacity | CMS waives reporting rules for 11 Medicare programs | 9 exec moves | CVS wants to hire 50,000 | 69 experimental COVID-19 drugs, treatments ID’ed | Will COVID-19 overwhelm hospitals near you? 16 things to know

March 21, 2020

• Physicians are taking drastic steps to protect their families from COVID-19 | Where hospital employees tested positive for COVID-19 this week | States where adults at greatest risk of serious COVID-19 illness | Kan. hospital abruptly closes, blames MDs

March 20, 2020

• Cuomo pleads for ventilators from NY providers | Wash. hospital CMOs, CNOs draft plan for care rationing | COVID-19 response: 9 US updates, 27 state-level updates, 14 notes from hospitals | The healthiest county in each US state

March 19, 2020

• COVID-19 news directly from Swedish, NYU Langone + 12 systems | US preps for 18-mo. pandemic: 8 nat’l updates, 29 updates from hardest-hit states | More hospitals cancel surgeries, but not all: Why some defy CMS' urging

March 18, 2020

• CMS urges hospitals to stop elective surgeries | COVID-19 response: Notes from Seattle Children’s, SF hospitals, Mayo, Mass Gen, UPMC, more | Calif. turns to hotels, vacant hospitals to prep for surge | Telehealth demand leads to delays

March 17, 2020

• Hospitals seek $1B for coronavirus response | With 8 COVID-19 patients, Memorial Sloan Kettering has week's supply of masks | NY to create temporary medical facilities for COVID-19 patients | Top HCA execs get pay bump

March 16, 2020

• US coronavirus cases near 4,000 | 12+ health systems canceling, postponing surgeries | 16 exec moves | What hospitals can't share about employees testing positive for coronavirus | Kan. hospital abruptly closes, blames physicians

March 14, 2020

• Calif. hospital fires employees for medical record snooping | How 12 systems are responding to the coronavirus pandemic | Cedars-Sinai to add 619-bed hospital | Mo. town loses hospital after 100 years | 7 things to know about Gen Z patients, workers

March 13, 2020

• Trump to declare national emergency over coronavirus | Advocate Aurora, Providence halt billing coronavirus patients + How 12 systems are responding to the pandemic | 5 CNO, CMO moves | 10 best hospitals in the world, ranked by Newsweek

March 12, 2020

• Up to 150M Americans may contract coronavirus; Amazon offers to deliver tests | Trump exec order to boost respirator supply | Nonprofit hospitals in these 10 states report highest expenses | Mo. town loses hospital after 100 years | 10 happiest US cities

March 11, 2020

• WHO declares coronavirus a pandemic; US cases pass 1K | 9 CEO moves | Trinity Health's net income jumps $1.1B | 20 top rural & community hospitals | NY hospital shuts down ORs after inspection | 50 patient safety experts to know

March 10, 2020

• US coronavirus cases top 700; regulators crack down on fake cures | HCA responds to criticism of Mission Health takeover | Why 8 hospitals closed so far this year | NYU Langone bumps pay for 900 nurses | Layoffs hit Vidant

March 9, 2020

• Coronavirus in 34 states; healthcare quarantines spur staffing concerns | 26 exec moves | NC health system files for bankruptcy | Comparing Google's deals with Ascension, Mayo, UCSF | Flu kills 20K | New medical school opening in St. Louis

March 7, 2020

• NH hospital employee with coronavirus ignored isolation orders | 20 most overweight US cities | Hawaii hospital CEO on leave after 2 months at helm | Walmart Health vs. CVS MinuteClinic: 4 key differences | 10 states with the most for-profit hospitals

March 6, 2020

• Ohio hospital closes | Trump signs $8.3B coronavirus package as US cases rise to 238 | Mount Carmel fined over fatal overdoses | LifePoint sells 3 SC hospitals | Virginia Mason CEO's advice for his peers: Create a sense of urgency

March 5, 2020

• Coronavirus kills 11 in US | Md. hospital ends inpatient care post-merger | UnitedHealth stock has best day in 10 years | 20 hospitals hiring CEOs, CFOs | Coronavirus fears enrich some healthcare execs | NP workforce hits record high

March 4, 2020

• 9 CEO moves | Coronavirus death rate jumps | Walmart Health vs. CVS MinuteClinic: 4 differences | 14 health systems with strong finances | Layoffs hit CarePoint | Why American work culture could exacerbate coronavirus

March 3, 2020

• Coronavirus kills 6 in US | Lawmakers want answers from Ascension, Google on Project Nightingale | 5 exec resignations | HCA buys NH hospital | Amazon Alexa can answer new Qs about prescription drugs | 100 top rural & community hospitals, state by state

March 2, 2020

• 19 executive moves | 1st coronavirus deaths confirmed in US | Supreme Court will hear ACA challenge | CHS to cease inpatient care at 2 Fla. hospitals | CHOP pumps $3.4B into expansion | Pediatric flu death toll highest since 2009

February 29, 2020

• 16 'overpaid' healthcare CEOs | 6 health systems blamed Epic, Cerner EHR installs for losing millions | Visits to Walmart clinics top expectations | How CHS, Tenet, HCA and UHS fared in Q4 | CMS revamps quality strategy | 100 top CAHs, state by state

February 28, 2020

• Surgeon shortage forces Neb. hospital to halt neurosurgery program | Mayo to close network hospital Sunday | WHO: Coronavirus outbreak at 'decisive point' | Hospital expenses per inpatient day, state by state | Cleveland Clinic's strategy in 6 notes

February 27, 2020

• 1st US coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed | CHS gives COO big vote of confidence | Optum exec is Envision's new CEO | Cleveland Clinic's patient volume hits record high | No more 'heads in beds': Outpatient visits outpace inpatient

February 26, 2020

• Mo. hospital CEO resigns + 11 CEO moves | CDC: Coronavirus spread is inevitable in US | Mayo's operating income tops $1B | 4 healthcare highlights from Dem debate | HCA reverses decision to close Fla. hospital | Beaumont bumps pay for 1,000 employees

February 25, 2020

• Visits to Walmart clinics top expectations | Trump: US 'very close' to coronavirus vaccine | 5 NYC hospital execs' most urgent public health concern | Woman sued by Ala. hospital over $31K: 'Wish you'd have let me die' | 100 top CAHs, state by state

February 24, 2020

• 25 exec moves | Insurer clinic competition 'very worrisome for hospitals' | Flu has sickened 29 million | White House expected to seek $1B to combat coronavirus | No 2020 pay raise for CHS CEO | Calif. hospital workers schedule Feb. 28 strike

February 22, 2020

• Amazon Care live in Seattle: 5 things to know | W.Va hospital to close, lay off 600 | 11 hospitals that swapped Cerner for Epic | U of Vt. Health blames operating loss on Epic install | Mayo medical school accepts 364 students by mistake

February 21, 2020

• CMS wants to change CJR model: 6 things to know | Atrium swaps Cerner EHR for Epic | BCBS of Tenn. to open 8 primary care centers | Black hospital employees told to 'get over' racist remarks, lawsuit claims | Ky. hospital to close in April

February 20, 2020

• W.Va. hospital to close, lay off 600 | Seattle Children's sues to block release of mold records | Texas A&M plans to build $550M complex | CHS plans to sell more hospitals | 11 hospitals that swapped Cerner for Epic

February 19, 2020

• Amazon Care is live in Seattle | 5 CEO moves | Sinai Health CEO: Charity care study shows inherent challenge for safety-nets | Neb. hospital treats 13 coronavirus patients; global death toll passes 2,000 | 9 hospitals deemed best to work for by Fortune

February 18, 2020

• US coronavirus risk still low | A day with Providence St. Joseph CEO Dr. Rod Hochman | Beaumont more than doubled net income in '19 | 70 services hospitals must post online next year | Malware forced Boston Children's affiliates into 3-day downtime

February 17, 2020

• 13 executive moves | Mayo mistakenly accepts 364 students | Conn. reconsiders funding for UConn Health | 37k Amazon jobs are open | Flu death estimate hits 14,000; 5 cities start testing patients for coronavirus | Allina Health doubles operating income

February 15, 2020

• Healthgrades' best 50 hospitals | EEOC sues Yale hospital over testing policy for older employees | 30 latest hospital credit rating downgrades | AdventHealth switches from Cerner EHR to Epic | Hospitals can be sued for battery when patients say 'stop'

February 14, 2020

• Hospitals can be sued for battery when patients say 'stop' | 3-state hospital operator CEO under criminal probe | 15th US coronavirus case reported in Texas | AdventHealth CEO Terry Shaw on 30 years in the healing ministry

February 13, 2020

• Trinity to end inpatient care at Philadelphia hospital | CDC coronavirus testing kits are flawed | 7 CEO moves | Rennova CEO seeks more money to run hospitals | Ochsner picks up tuition for physicians, nurses who promise 5 years with system

February 12, 2020

• EEOC goes after Yale hospital for testing clinicians age 70+ | 453 rural hospitals vulnerable to closure: 6 things to know | Tenet to pay $1.4M to settle claims of unnecessary implants | WSJ: Gen Z workers need lessons in email, phone etiquette

February 11, 2020

• Coronavirus patient mistakenly cleared to leave Calif. hospital | Trump budget proposal cuts Medicaid, CDC funds: 5 notes | Healthgrades' best 50 US hospitals | AdventHealth to switch 50 hospitals from Cerner to Epic EHR

February 10, 2020

• 25 exec moves | Kaiser's net income nearly triples to $7.4B | 1st American dies of coronavirus | Bipartisan healthcare reform could look like this: 5 notes | 15 hospitals patients are least likely to recommend + 10 healthiest, unhealthiest US cities

February 8, 2020

• Hospitals close or lose licenses in NY, Pa. and Texas | Top 22 patient-recommended hospitals in US | Adventist cuts 651 Calif. jobs | CEO, CFO depart ND health system + 10 more CEO moves | How US hospitals are readying for coronavirus

February 7, 2020

• How US hospitals are preparing for coronavirus | CHS fights securities fraud case | UNC professor: 'Thank God' my job isn't rural hospital CEO | Atrium bumps pay for 10,000+ employees | New Temple University CEO aims to lead 'cost-conscious champions'

February 6, 2020

• 10 CEO moves | Coronavirus confirmed in Wis. | 11 hospitals where patients feel disrespected | CMS' proposed MA rule: 5 things to know | Envision CEO is out amid investigations of billing tactics | DMC to lose neurosurgery training accreditation

February 5, 2020

• Trump talks healthcare in State of the Union: 5 notes | Texas hospital abruptly closes | It's been 25+ years since flu hit kids this hard, this early | Top 22 patient-recommended hospitals in US | Fla. system accused defaming competitor's board members

February 4, 2020

• Pa. hospital defunct after loss of license | CEO, CFO leave Altru | Chicago’s greatest health needs: 8 system leaders pinpoint them | Trump to make 'specific' healthcare asks in State of the Union | Adventist cuts 651 Calif. jobs

February 3, 2020

• 17 executive moves + 12 retirements | NY hospital closes | Flu has killed 10,000 this season | Humana, PE firm bet $600M on clinics | UPMC hospital shuts down ER | How big is Optum? 10 numbers to know

February 1, 2020

• All 635 of CMS’ 5-star, 1-star hospitals | Epic, Cerner & 5 more stakeholders react to HHS' interoperability rule | IRS strips hospital of tax-exempt status | FBI raids Pa. hospital | 45 financial benchmarks, 11 CEO moves

January 31, 2020

• CMS cuts payments to 786 hospitals for infections, injuries | WHO: Coronavirus is a public health emergency | FBI raids Pa. hospital | Cardinal Health recalls packs with surgical gowns | Hospitals call out CMS over star ratings

January 30, 2020

• IRS strips hospital of tax-exempt status | Trump creates coronavirus task force + 7 updates | Seattle hospital will call back striking workers 'as needed' | The 635 hospitals with most + fewest stars from CMS

January 29, 2020

• CMS updates star ratings | 11 CEO moves | Coronavirus cases jump 1K in 1 day | Lurie Children's new CEO: We're starting to see the consequences of ignoring pediatrics | Ind. physician wins $4.75M defamation suit

January 28, 2020

• Trump: US in 'close communication' with China on coronavirus; death toll hits 100+ | HCA Q4 profit tops $1B | Orlando Health faces claims of forced referrals | Colo. blames hospitals for high healthcare costs | What .org sale could mean for healthcare

January 27, 2020

• 5th US coronavirus case confirmed | Epic may sue HHS | Seattle hospital to close 2 EDs during strike | 16 executive moves, 45 financial benchmarks | Trump walks back entitlement program cut remarks

January 25, 2020

• PA median salaries, by state | 4 Chicago hospitals form new system | Pa. hospital banned from reopening after 40 citations | Bon Secours to close Ky. hospital, affecting 1,000 | Trump 'going to look' at Medicare cuts

January 24, 2020

• Coronavirus confirmed in Chicago: The updates you need | LA hospital closes | Pharma exec who dressed as fentanyl bottle gets 26 mos. in prison | The case to 'make IT boring again' | 40 healthcare companies among 'world's most admired'

January 23, 2020

• 4 Chicago hospitals form new system | Trump considers Medicare cuts | Kevin Lofton to retire as CommonSpirit CEO | Judy Faulkner to hospitals: Oppose HHS' interoperability rule | 9M surgical gowns recalled | WellCare, Centene deal to close today

January 22, 2020

• Coronavirus: 7 things you should know | 3 Texas systems settle claims of collusion to stifle RN pay | Ky. hospital closure will affect 1,000 employees | Where Intermountain is investing $500M | Healthcare's top 10 billionaires

January 21, 2020

• 19 exec moves | CMS: NJ hospital put patients in immediate jeopardy | PA median salaries, by state | HealthPartners begins 300 job cuts | American College of Physicians backs 'Medicare for All' | States ranked by opioid overdose deaths

January 18, 2020

• 120 rural hospital closures, state by state | Google 'super proud' of Project Nightingale with Ascension, says Dr. David Feinberg | Top 10 questions for CEOs from JP Morgan Healthcare Conference | CVS to add 600 HealthHUBs; Walmart adds health centers

January 17, 2020

• Mo. hospital abruptly closes | SC system lays off 327 | 8,000 Swedish workers schedule strike | 29 physician specialties ranked by burnout | Hold on surgical gowns prompts Allegheny Health to cancel surgeries | Gen Z gets medical debt advice from TikTok

January 16, 2020

• Top 10 questions for CEOs from JP Morgan Healthcare Conference | Advocate Medical Group to close 7 Chicago-area clinics | U of Wash. residents stage 'sick-in' | Partners inks deal with One Medical | Walmart expands standalone health center model

January 15, 2020

• Dr. David Feinberg: Google 'super proud' of Project Nightingale with Ascension | 8 CEO moves | Optum pushes UnitedHealth Q4 profit past $5B | UPMC innovation arm allots $1B for drugs, devices | 120 rural hospital closures, state by state

January 14, 2020

• Hospitals sue HHS to block site-neutral pay cuts | 10 executive retirements | Partners plans $6.1B in expansions | 298-bed Calif. hospital still offline 12 days after ransomware attack | Wash. hospital closes ER

January 13, 2020

• 25 executive moves | 8 ER physicians quit Chicago hospital | Hackers demand payments from Fla. patients | W.Va. health system files for bankruptcy | Venture capitalist launches drug company

January 11, 2020

• 14 highest-paying healthcare jobs in 2020 | Wash. hospital to close this month | Princeton economists: Physicians 'take money away from the rest of us' | Mo. hospital ordered to stop performing surgery

January 10, 2020

• 52 Drexel physicians join Tower Health | Judge: Trinity not responsible for ex-Mount Carmel physician's legal fees | Grady still diverting patients after flood | How BCBS of Minn. CEO Dr. Craig Samitt will disrupt health systems' status quo this year

January 9, 2020

• 9 CEO moves | Wash. hospital to close | Princeton economists: Physicians 'take money away from the rest of us' | 10 highest-paying NP specialties | Chicago hospitals treat coyote attacks | How does your state rank for healthcare affordability?

January 8, 2020

• Nurses: Verity didn't give timely notice of LA hospital closure | Why CVS, Walgreens are suing Ohio physicians | CHS reaches $53M deal in class-action stock drop lawsuit | Amazon's healthcare strategy: 15 things to know

January 7, 2020

• Hospital rates have soared, study finds | LA hospital to close | 6 exec resignations | Beaumont inks definitive agreement to acquire Summa + 7 more M&A deals | MIPS results are out: 5 things to know | 14 highest-paying healthcare jobs in 2020

January 6, 2020

• 11 exec moves | Beaumont makes hires after complaints of staff shortage | Flu activity high + rising | Ransomware forces Calif. medical center to reschedule procedures | 1,000 physicians face insurance deadline after Pa. hospital bankruptcy

January 4, 2020

• 13,000 Providence workers postpone strike | 20 things to know about Epic, Cerner heading into '20 | 2 NY hospitals merge | Hospital acquisitions hurt patient experience: study | Ariz. hospital responds to 'women don't do well here' job posting

January 3, 2020

• Chicago psych hospital may close | 13,000 Providence workers set to strike Jan. 14 | Judge: Texas hospital can end life support for infant | U of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics CEO: 'Everything in healthcare doesn't need to be done by a hospital CEO'

January 2, 2020

• Hospital acquisitions hurt patient experience, study suggests | 2 NY hospitals merge | 4 CEO moves + what 30 CEOs told Becker's in '19 | Price hikes hit 250+ meds | Ariz. hospital responds to 'women don't do well here' physician job posting

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