Hospitals: Page 26

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    UCSF Health to acquire two Dignity hospitals in San Francisco

    The purchase comes as Dignity’s parent CommonSpirit Health has struggled financially, posting a $441 million operating loss in its first quarter.

    By • Feb. 6, 2024
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    HCA Healthcare taps new CIO

    The announcement comes a week after the for-profit operator also announced a replacement for its CFO.

    By • Feb. 6, 2024
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    Provider burnout

    Hospitals are still struggling with provider burnout, after the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated underlying staffing issues and prompted workers to quit their jobs.

    By Healthcare Dive staff
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    Healthcare job growth reached three-decade high in 2023

    The sector added 650,000 jobs over the year — its most prolific year of growth in decades.

    By Susanna Vogel • Feb. 5, 2024
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    Providence erases or refunds $158M in medical bills

    The Renton, Washington-based nonprofit health system plans to spend millions to settle allegations it skirted charity care obligations between 2018 and 2023.

    By Susanna Vogel • Feb. 2, 2024
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    Saint Peter’s signs definitive agreement to join Atlantic Health System

    The agreement comes about six months after the New Jersey health systems announced plans to combine.

    By • Updated June 26, 2024
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    UCI Health completes $975M purchase of 4 Tenet hospitals

    Tenet's latest hospital sale comes as the operator looks to pare down its debt.

    By Susanna Vogel • Updated March 28, 2024
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    CHS migrates to Google Cloud data platform, adopts generative AI tools

    The for-profit hospital operator said it will use the artificial intelligence in operations tracking, clinical documentation and administrative tasks.

    By • Jan. 31, 2024
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    Advocate taps new chief people, culture officer

    Effective March 18, Nakesha Lopez will lead human resource and people programs for the 68-hospital nonprofit.

    By • Jan. 30, 2024
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    HCA beats Q4 expectations, outlines 2024 expansion

    Executives also announced the retirement of longtime CFO Bill Rutherford during a Tuesday earnings call.

    By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 30, 2024
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    Low operating margins will be new normal for some nonprofit hospitals: Fitch

    The sector's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has been slower than expected. In a new report, the credit agency said some hospitals may never reach traditionally healthy operating margins. 

    By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 30, 2024
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    Healthcare labor churn increased through 2021, study finds

    To keep up with elevated COVID-19 turnover, healthcare organizations hired more workers who were unemployed or hadn't previously worked in the industry, according to a study published in JAMA.

    By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 29, 2024
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    Penn Medicine ends plans to buy hospital from Tower Health

    Cash-strapped Tower has been trying to sell Brandywine Hospital even before the facility's closure in 2022.

    By • Jan. 29, 2024
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    Sponsored by Public Agenda

    Healing the system: Advancing economic mobility and healthcare innovation through education partnerships

    Partnerships between higher education and healthcare organizations can build public trust, enhance economic mobility and rejuvenate the healthcare industry.

    By Becky Hultberg, President and CEO, Hospital Association of Oregon • Jan. 29, 2024
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    Tracking Steward's decline

    Troubled Steward Health Care announces yet another facility closure

    The financially strapped for-profit healthcare network plans to shutter services at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas on Feb. 2.

    By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 26, 2024
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    FTC sues to block Novant purchase of two CHS hospitals

    Regulators filed a lawsuit on Thursday to block North Carolina-based Novant Health from expanding its grip on healthcare in the state, warning a buy would increase costs.

    By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 25, 2024
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    Appeals court rejects doctors’ challenge to No Surprises Act

    A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Appeals Court has dismissed claims from a New York medical group that the law amounts to an unconstitutional seizure of their property.

    By • Jan. 25, 2024
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    Cleveland Clinic to focus on ‘smart growth,’ cutting costs this year

    During an annual address, executives outlined plans to build sustainably — with technology investments —  after the operator posted a profit last year.

    By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 25, 2024
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    Marshfield Clinic to close Wisconsin hospice center due to ‘limited resources’

    The announcement comes weeks after the financially troubled health system called off merger discussions with Duluth, Minnesota-based Essentia Health.

    By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 24, 2024
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    Tracking Steward's decline

    Lawmakers press Steward Health Care over reports of ‘grave financial distress’

    Lawmakers demanded the operator detail how it will "ensure the communities Steward’s hospitals serve are not abandoned" amid financial troubles.

    By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 24, 2024
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    HCA subsidiary acquires two Texas surgery centers

    Surgery Ventures’ purchases follow other HCA acquisitions in the state, which is one of the hospital operator’s largest markets.

    By • Jan. 23, 2024
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    Bon Secours Mercy Health, vendor hit with lawsuit after data breach

    The suit alleges the health system and a vendor failed to implement standards or promptly alert people whose data may have been exposed following a cyberattack.

    By • Jan. 23, 2024
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    HSHS to close Wisconsin hospitals, health centers due to financial challenges

    Hospital Sisters Health System is shuttering operations in Western Wisconsin as nonprofits struggle to rebound from pandemic-related challenges.

    By • Jan. 23, 2024
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    Nurse sues UPMC over alleged labor abuses

    The lawsuit seeks to represent thousands of other UPMC employees who may have been affected by the nonprofit’s alleged wage suppression and other anticompetitive practices.

    By • Jan. 23, 2024
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    Intermountain’s Saltzer Health will close if it can’t find a buyer by spring

    The Idaho-based health group has until March 29 to find a buyer for its 11 locations, otherwise the facilities will shutter.

    By Susanna Vogel • Jan. 22, 2024
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    By Jeff Hechemy, Executive Vice President – Healthcare at Teleperformance • Jan. 22, 2024