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The silent stress of health system CEOs

It’s lonely at the top. Unaddressed isolation and burnout could be contributing to healthcare’s high turnover rates, one health system CEO told Becker’s. 

California system considers outside management company

Escondido, Calif.-based Palomar Health, a publicly owned system with two hospitals, is considering taking on an outside management services company to better compete in an increasingly crowded market and separate politics from hospital operations, acco…

Chicagoland's 1,000-physician group adds executives

Three executives are joining the management team of Duly Health and Care, the Downers Grove, Ill.-based medical group with more than 1,000 physicians in the Chicago area.

UChicago Medicine taps 1st chief obstetrical transformational officer

UChicago Medicine has named Sarosh Rana, MD, to serve as its first chief obstetrical transformation officer. 

Is healthcare ready to embrace more young nurses?

In conversations about the nursing shortage, healthcare leaders often underscore the importance of building a pipeline by stirring interest among younger generations, and getting in front of high schoolers and middle schoolers. But is the industry full…

Compensation for 10 advanced practitioner specialties

Advanced practice provider compensation has continued to trend upward across all specialties tracked, according to one new survey.

Closing rural Kansas ER looks to new operator

Atchison, Kan.-based Amberwell Health may be stepping in to operate a rural Kansas emergency department that is due to close Dec. 20, according to a KCUR/NPR report.

HSS breaks ground on $70M Florida facility

New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery, one of the most renowned orthopedic care systems in the world, has broken ground on an 80,000-square-foot facility in Florida.

How healthcare is tackling clinician burnout

In an online survey conducted by HealthDay-Harris Poll, almost 63% of physicians and nurses across the nation reported experiencing a moderate or significant level of burnout in their workplace. To combat this, healthcare organizations have been making…

Patients potentially exposed to infection at Massachusetts hospital

Salem (Mass.) Hospital is notifying some patients who may have been exposed to infection as a result of the improper administration of an intravenous medicine, Boston 25 News reported Nov. 15.