Category: Featured

Cedars-Sinai to put $20M into health equity initiatives

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is handing out $20 million in grants to local nonprofits to promote health equity in homelessness and housing, access to care and community response, the health system confirmed to Becker’s.

Virtual nursing results at 8 systems: 24 stats to know

Faced with a shortage of nurses, a rise in high-acuity cases and an increase in labor spend, hospitals and health systems have turned to virtual nursing programs for solutions. Here are 24 statistics tied to virtual nursing models, according to Becker’…

MedStar expands in-home care to 4 hospitals

Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health is expanding its partnership with DispatchHealth to include four Baltimore hospitals.

New Hampshire physician pleads guilty to drug distribution

A Grantham, N.H., physician has pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute controlled substances, marking the first joint prosecution of a physician by the Justice Department’s New England Strike Force and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the D…

Eye Health America partners with Florida practice

Eyecare platform Eye Health America has launched a partnership with Bowden Eye & Associates in Jacksonville, Fla. 

CMS' new hospital capacity ruling: 5 things ASCs need to know

CMS began requiring hospitals to report specific admission information on Nov. 1. 

Lehigh Valley breaks ground on 3rd micro-hospital: 4 things to know

Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network, part of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, broke ground Nov. 1 on its third neighborhood hospital.

Insight Health officially takes over 2 Steward Ohio hospitals

Flint, Mich.-based Insight Health System has officially taken over Trumbull Regional Medical Center and Hillside Rehabilitation hospital, both in Warren, Ohio, from Dallas-based Steward Health Care, a Nov. 4 Insight news release shared with Becker’s sa…

How Intermountain is helping shape this Microsoft tool

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health joined a collaboration with Microsoft, Epic and other health systems to enhance nursing workflows using ambient listening technology.

The 1 thing that could be holding ASCs back

ASCs are in a strong position amid the industry shift to value-based care, but for some, a lack of comprehensive data is holding them back.