Category: ROOT

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. 

Southwest Ohio Pain Management regulatory compliance manager on ASC, employee growth

Shannon Parisi O’Leary is the regulatory compliance manager for the Mason-based Southwest Ohio Pain Management.

‘All of society has suffered financially’: How ASCs are navigating physician pay changes

As inflation and the cost of running a practice rises, CMS’s Medicare physician fee schedule proposed rule for 2023 suggests further cuts to physician pay.