Kalispell, Mont.-based Logan Health, a six-hospital system, and Billings Clinic have inked a letter of intent to explore merging into one independent health system to improve healthcare access, service and quality in Montana and northern Wyoming.
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Former Rush hospital COO indicted in alleged fraud, money laundering scheme
Robert Spadoni, former vice president and COO of Rush Oak Park (Ill.) Hospital, has been indicted for allegedly defrauding the hospital out of $622,000. He is charged with three counts of mail fraud and three counts of money laundering.
CommonSpirit took $150M hit from ransomware attack
CommonSpirit estimates the ransomware attack that hit the health system last October cost the system around $150 million.
4 health systems with recent credit rating upgrades
Here are four health systems that recently had their credit rating upgraded by Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service or S&P Global Ratings:
How to 'see through the hype': 6 hospital digital, GI leaders on AI's potential for gastroenterology
The artificial intelligence will see you now.
Sanford Health creates robust onboarding program to help internationally educated nurses acclimate to working in a US hospital
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health has already onboarded more than 130 of the 800 internationally educated nurses the system is looking to hire to help offset nursing shortage challenges.
Mayor asks U of Tennessee to take over Blount County Memorial
Blount County, Tenn., Mayor Ed Mitchell will ask the Blount County Board of Commissioners to transfer operations ownership of Blount County Memorial Hospital to Knoxville-based University of Tennessee Medical Center, The Daily Times reported Feb. 15.
Alphabet backs digital health benefits platform
GV (formerly Google Ventures), the venture capital arm of Alphabet, co-led the $6 million seed funding round to help launch Thatch, a digital benefits management platform.
274+ healthcare revenue cycle management companies to know | 2023
Hospitals, health systems, physician practices and healthcare organizations are experiencing increasingly complex revenue cycles, working with government and private payers as well as patients to collect.
States ranked by NPs per capita: 2023
Tennessee has the most active nurse practitioners of any state per capita, while Hawaii has the fewest, according to a ranking from Kaiser Family Foundation.
