Facing frequent reductions in resources and staffing, combined with the increasing needs of their patient population, infusion centers must grow their patient volumes despite limitations and make the best use of what they do have.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare will change its name to Intermountain Health in 2023. 

Processes between the patient access and patient intake departments are often disparate — as are differing technology solutions that only serve one group well.

Conversations about the patient experience and healthy outcomes tend to focus on the clinical aspects of the experience.

As Hurricane Ian nears Florida, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare — which has facilities in a number of East Coast and southern states — is putting storm preparedness plans into place to protect patients and employees. 

In today's environment, long-term vision is essential for any hospital and health system. This is especially true as CEOs plan while navigating existing financial and workforce challenges.

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Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health has filed a permit to downsize its headquarters in the spring, the Brentwood Home Page reported Sept. 26. 

For decades, hospitals and health systems have relied on physician relations programs to generate referrals and build their hospital’s reputation.

Physicians are reporting high rates of burnout, which studies suggest can affect patient safety. This can be partially attributed to the administrative burden placed on physicians, who frequently lose clinical hours to EHR tasks. 

The healthcare system's climate practices are costing high sums of money — and are taking years off lives — according to a Sept. 15 report from the House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee. 

As health care technology and clinical documentation requirements become more complex, health systems must find ways to enable physicians to maintain a high level of quality in their documentation, while keeping their primary focus on the patient. Ambient intelligence solutions, built on natural language understanding (NLU), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies can help.  

Amid provider shortages and a fierce competition for talent, employee attraction and retention has become a top priority for healthcare leaders. 

Rural healthcare systems have faced significant financial challenges for decades and many strategies and tools that have historically been used by larger health systems have been unavailable to smaller, rural organizations. This is finally changing. By tapping into these solutions, rural health systems can improve their pricing, productivity and overall financial health.

In the wake of lessons learned during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are now rethinking traditional design and prioritizing flexible spaces to bolster surge capacity and isolation in future infectious disease outbreaks, The New Times reported Sept. 13. 

Charlotte, N.C.-based Novant Health has set quantitative goals to further environmental sustainability within its organization. 

Providing a superb patient experience requires skillfully integrating many technological and clinical elements of healthcare, such that they create a seamless journey. Organizations have at their disposal one key lever that makes this complex task considerably easier: a consolidated electronic health record (EHR).

Binesh Batra, MD, has been named COO of the medical foundation that is creating a single enterprise organization in Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente's Colorado and Washington state markets, according to a leadership announcement shared with Becker's Sept. 9.

A Kaiser Health News analysis of federal data published Sept. 9 highlights an increasing trend among hospitals — establishing independent, nonprofit health center "look-alikes" for primary care patients to improve their financial picture.

Providence Holy Family Hospital in Spokane, Wash., is implementing changes in its maternity center with the intention of improving communication between patients, nurses and physicians, the Spokane Journal reported Sept. 8.