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How Nebraska Medicine is bucking nurse turnover

After Nebraska Medicine turned to AI, the organization was able to reduce first-year nurse turnover by 40%. 

Change Healthcare offers funding program, prescribing workaround after cyberattack: 7 updates

Optum’s Change Healthcare continued to deal with outages March 1, nine days after a ransomware attack took its systems offline. Here are seven updates.

Lawmakers question Aspirus CEO over hospital service changes

U.S. and Michigan lawmakers are seeking answers to concerns regarding the recently announced transition of services at Aspirus Ontonagon (Mich.) Hospital.

'That's what Indiana deserves': IU Health CFO on capital projects, community investment

After reporting $1.1 billion in net income in 2023, compared to a $715 million net loss in 2022, Jenni Alvey, senior vice president and CFO of IU Health, is pleased with how the health system is coming out of the pandemic.

HCA, CHS, Tenet and UHS: 342 hospitals, $112B in revenue

Four of the major for-profit hospital chains operate 342 acute care hospitals across the U.S. and reported more than $112 billion in revenue combined in 2023.

Torrance Memorial's succession plan 'left nothing to chance'

Keith Hobbs spent nearly three years acclimating to Torrance (Calif.) Memorial Medical Center before becoming its CEO, according to a Feb. 13 blog post from the hospital. 

Viewpoint: The case for calling some NPs 'doctors'

No one owns the title “doctor,” according to Shakeel Ahmed, MD, CEO of St. Louis-based ASC group Atlas Surgical Group. 

Preparing physicians to treat a disease that was once eradicated

Once eliminated from the U.S., measles appears to be making a comeback, with 41 cases reported so far in 2024. That amount is already more than half of the total number of cases reported in 2023, according to CDC data.

Mercy taps service line president

St. Louis-based Mercy has named Michael Englehart president of cardiovascular services, the health system said March 1. 

10 RCM headlines to know in February

From Change Healthcare confirming it was hacked by a ransomware gang to Allina Health announcing it will transition 2,000 IT and revenue cycle employees to Optum, here are 10 RCM headlines Becker’s reported in February.