North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has urged state officials to deny Asheville-based Mission Health's application to add 26 more beds in Buncombe County as pressure mounts for HCA Healthcare to give up control of the system. 

Several executives at Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare recently sold shares of the company's stock, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare operates in three geographically organized groups, according to a July 29 regulatory filing. 

Revenue cycle management company SimiTree has named Mike Brents managing director of technology consulting. 

Median hospital labor expenses grew 5.2% year over year in June, according to Strata's Monthly Healthcare Industry Financial Benchmarks report.

CMS has approved North Carolina's plan to push hospitals to relieve $4 billion in medical debt for about 2 million low and middle-income people.

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey has alleged that Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health System prioritizes profits over quality care and is demanding the system find a trustworthy buyer for two of its Pennsylvania hospitals it plans to sell. 

In the second quarter, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare saw its net income increase 25% year over year to $1.5 billion, partly due to the health system's success in reducing its contract labor costs. 

Dallas-based Steward Health Care has again filed a notice to extend the sale deadline for some of its hospitals and physician group, Stewardship Health. 

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago has laid off a "very small" number of employees after a comprehensive budget review, the hospital confirmed in a July 27 statement shared with Becker's. 

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey's administration has dedicated $30 million to financially troubled Dallas-based Steward Health Care's hospitals in the state to ensure operations through the end of August. 

Four of the largest for-profit hospital operators reported mixed earnings in the second quarter of 2024; three systems reported increases in first-quarter net income while one system posted a net loss for the second consecutive quarter: 

Providence's family medicine residency program is cutting the number of new medical school graduates it recruits annually from 10 to four. The cuts, driven by a decrease in federal funding, will take effect next June, The Spokesman-Review reported July 25. 

Dallas-based Steward Health Care plans to close two of its Massachusetts hospitals: Dorchester, Mass.-based Carney Hospital and Ayer, Mass.-based Nashoba Valley Medical Center.

The Justice Department pointed to antitrust scrutiny for why UnitedHealth Group's Optum backed out of its planned acquisition of Dallas-based Steward Health Care's physician group, Stewardship Health.

Average health system operating margins held steady in June while hospital margins dropped slightly, according to Strata's Monthly Healthcare Industry Financial Benchmarks, published July 25.

The New York Department of Health has given New York City-based Mount Sinai conditional approval to close Beth Israel after months of reviewing the health system's closure plan.

The U.S. economy saw a 2.8% increase in gross domestic product in the second quarter of 2024, reflecting  a spike in consumer spending, nonresidential fixed investment and private inventory investment. 

HCA Healthcare and Tenet Healthcare, two of the largest for-profit health systems in the U.S., reported higher net incomes in the second quarter of this year than in the same period of 2023. 

New York (City)-Presbyterian is seeking approval from the state Department of Health to close the 16-bed rehabilitation unit at New York City-based Columbia University Irving Medical Center and transition it to in-patient beds.