HCA Florida North Florida Hospital in Gainesville, which shut down procedures earlier this year to address equipment sterilization issues, has resumed all surgical operations.
Category: Care Coordination
Why US hospitals are breaking up with anesthesiology groups
More hospitals are severing ties to anesthesiology groups, some to build their own internal anesthesia departments, others inking new contracts with different provider groups and some joining the growing volume of echoes claiming certain anesthesiology…
HCA Mission Hospital regains CMS compliance
CMS found Asheville, N.C.-based HCA Mission Hospital in compliance with its plan of correction and recommended removing the immediate jeopardy designation, Blue Ridge Public Radio reported Feb. 23.
Nemours Children's, Crozer affiliate on pediatric services
Under a new affiliation, Nemours Children’s Health will integrate neonatal ICU and pediatric cardiology services into the Crozer Health network, the two health systems announced Feb. 21.
'We have a stable workforce': North Carolina hospital defying the odds of maternity care closures
As hospitals and health systems continue to face ongoing maternity care cuts and closures in 2024, Chatham Maternity Care Center at Siler City, N.C.-based Chatham Hospital, part of Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health, is working hard to defy those odds.
Atrium hospital floods, surgeries canceled
Atrium Health Pineville (N.C.), part of Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health, has canceled its elective surgeries for Feb. 22 and notified patients after a plumbing fixture leaked on the hospital’s fourth floor in the early morning.
Methodist Le Bonheur, anesthesia group end 50-year partnership
Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and its longtime anesthesia provider, Medical Anesthesia Group, have ended their partnership after contract negotiations hit an impasse.
A guide to successfully navigate ED boarding
Overwhelming, chaotic, inefficient, dysfunctional — all four words appear throughout a recent report describing the nationwide challenge of emergency department boarding published by the American College of Emergency Physicians.
How the Washington hospital where a nurse called 911 built back its resilience
On an October day in 2022, Kelsay Irby, BSN, RN, then nurse at Silverdale, Wash.-based St. Michael Medical Center, called 911 for backup when the emergency department became overwhelmed with patient boarding. Now, after hospital leaders spent time craf…
'They're vulnerable at any given time': Texas hospital, medical school partnership targets rural healthcare
Rural hospitals and health systems are continuing to face significant challenges like rising costs, low reimbursement rates and workforce challenges. In fact, a recent report found that there are about 418 rural hospitals currently at risk of closure.&…
