Staffing shortages are causing high turnovers, employee burnout and wage pressure at health systems, and have driven up the cost of labor, increased competition for talent and forced hospitals to consider the links between workforce design, talent, com…
Sangita Patel, MD, has been indicted by a grand jury for allegedly defrauding Medicare $448,000, MLive reported Feb. 20.
The threat of losing reimbursements because of upcoming changes in federal government policy is yet another burden for already struggling rural hospitals, according to a Feb. 21 New Hampshire Bulletin report.
Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare has expanded its digital hospital to patients transitioning out of the intensive care unit. The health system had been offering it to emergency patients at Peoria’s Saint Francis Medical Center since August.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., teamed with Brian Miller, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, to pen a column for The Wall Street Journal calling for an end to the ban on physician-owned hospitals.
Lawmakers expressed optimism for bipartisan solutions to the U.S. healthcare worker shortage during a recent meeting of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Kaiser Health News reported.
Cash-strapped Greenwood (Miss.) Leflore Hospital is due to file for critical access designation within the next few days, the hospital’s CEO told Becker’s Healthcare.
Health system leaders aim to bolster resilience and readiness in preparation for a potential recession, but most CEOs and CFOs do not see an economic downturn as a barrier to growth, according to Mercer’s “2023 Executive Outlook” survey.
The following hospital and health system CEO moves have been reported by Becker’s since Feb. 15:
Another person has been cured of HIV, according to findings published Feb. 20 in Nature.
