Elbow Lake, Minn.-based Prairie Ridge Healthcare will rebrand to reflect its affiliation with Fergus Falls, Minn.-based Lake Region Healthcare.
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New student enrollment down for health professions, clinical sciences in 2022
U.S. workers and professionals are considering alternative options to formal higher education, and the number of students seeking degrees in healthcare reflects the downward trend of overall college enrollment.
Orlando Health to acquire Puerto Rico hospital
Orlando (Fla.) Health is acquiring Sabanera Health Dorado, an acute care hospital in Puerto Rico.
New framework for workplace mental health, wellbeing
The U.S. surgeon general addressed quiet quitting, the “Great Resignation,” and the shift in how Americans live and work while underscoring workplaces’ functional role in promoting the health and well-being of workers and communities.
Hospitals continue to battle margins amid rising costs, flat revenues: 5 findings
More than half of hospitals and health systems are seeing margins hover above zero as expenses increase and revenue remains flat, according to an October report from Strata Decision Technology, a healthcare analytics company.
HCA outpatient revenue jumps 36.6% in Q3: 6 notes
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s outpatient revenue jumped 36.6 percent in the third quarter, according to financial results released Oct. 21.
3 health systems opening hospitals
Health systems that have opened hospitals, submitted proposals for construction or announced plans to build since Oct. 12:
America’s 10 best ASCs in 2022, per Newsweek
Cedars-Sinai’s 90210 Surgery Medical Center in Beverly Hills, Calif., was named the top ASC in the country by Newsweek’s “America’s Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers” list, which ranks 510 of the more than 5,000 Medicare-certified ASCs in the country.
Steward Health’s $227M construction project on hold
Texarkana, Texas-based Wadley Regional Medical Center, owned by Dallas-based Steward Health Care, has paused the $227 million construction of its facility, KSLA reported Oct. 20.
How ophthalmologist wages stack up by industry
Ophthalmologists earn the highest annual salary when working in outpatient care centers, according to the most recent compensation data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
