Miami-based primary care provider Cano Health is to separate the chair and CEO role held jointly up to now by Marlow Hernandez, DO, in a bid to maximize “its compelling near- and long-term value creation potential.”
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Repaying Medicare advances a struggle for some Colorado hospitals
Two Colorado hospitals that ran short on cash in recent months attributed the need to repay Medicare for interest-free loans received at the beginning of the pandemic as one factor, The Denver Post reported April 16.
Hospitals must boost cybersecurity investment despite other costs weighing on margins: Moody's
At $10.1 million, healthcare had the highest average cost of a data breach in 2022, with the financial sector following behind at $6 million, according to Moody’s Investor Service.
How cultural initiatives can be key to retaining nurses
For all the well-documented stress nurses face on the job, some tragedies cannot be numbed. Recently, a young person passed away in our intensive care unit. Her family stood by her bedside and did not leave as she was wheeled out of the room to have he…
CMS not pulling Mississippi rural emergency hospital status, state health official clarifies
After initially saying CMS was “pulling” Holly Springs, Miss.-based Alliance HealthCare’s emergency rural hospital status, state health officer Dan Edney, MD, walked back his remarks and said CMS just needed “further clarification” on the hospital’s ru…
6 health systems using GPT and AI tools
The buzz around OpenAI tools, including GPT, has bled into the healthcare sector, and some hospitals have begun using ChatGPT in their day-to-day work.
Tenet's 6 highest-earning executives in 2022
Tenet Healthcare’s highest-paid executives took significant pay cuts in 2022, according to a proxy statement the Dallas-based company filed April 14.
What the US can learn from UK's largest junior doctor strike
In what BBC has said is possibly “the most disruptive” strike in history, thousands of junior physicians in the U.K. walked out of both planned and emergency care centers April 11 to advocate for fair wages. Though it’s across the pond, there are a few…
20 years, $179B spent on health equity: Why isn't the needle moving?
Efforts to achieve health equity have been underway for more than two decades. And yet, their effects have only been “marginal,” according to a recent report from accounting firm Ernst & Young.
Flooding spurs Broward Health to cancel outpatient care
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health Medical Center canceled outpatient services April 13 after much of the South Florida city dealt with flooding from more than two feet of rainfall.
