Category: Modern Healthcare

LifePoint Health surveys its staff every 18 months to gauge safety culture in their units. Leaders say the surveys ensure staff are engaged in patient safety improvement efforts.

Providence St. Joseph executive Debra A. Canales tells how her personal experience with domestic abuse helped inspire her system’s commitment to zero tolerance.

Politics aside, President Donald Trump’s broad impact on the entire industry earned the top spot on 2018’s Most Influential Person in Healthcare ranking.

“Disruption” has become the word of the year and our 17th annual ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare aims to reflect the changes that are taking hold across the industry.

A small group of executives, along with President Donald Trump, are working to break healthcare out of the status quo.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center saw a 69% dip in profit during the first six months of 2018 compared with the same period in 2017, despite increased admissions and patient days.

Three chambers of commerce in Nevada will be among the first small-business groups in the country to offer an association health plan, taking advantage of a new Trump administration rule to sidestep Affordable Care Act rules and offer cheaper plans.

Two Oklahoma City health systems and United Surgical Partners International are forming a joint venture they say will give patients more options for where to get care, but the trio didn’t offer much detail about the deal, which they expect to close…

The Department of Justice and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency proposed to reduce manufacturing quotas for the six most frequently abused opioids by 10% in 2019 amid the historic epidemic.

The board of St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers has voted to begin exclusive negotiations to join Montefiore Health System, four years after it entered a clinical affiliation with the health system.