The nation’s largest for-profit health systems have filed their third-quarter earnings reports, detailing payer mixes by patient service revenue, patient admissions or both in the first nine months of 2023.
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Youth cancer mortality falls 24%
Youth cancer mortality fell 24% in the past two decades, the CDC’s National Center of Health Statistics found.
25% of current drug shortages are more than 5 years old
In early 2023, the number of drug shortages hit a 10-year high. A fourth of these shortages are more than five years old, and 58% are older than two years, according to a new report.
Uptake of new COVID shot grows
Nearly 14% of the nation’s adult population — about 35 million people — have received the new COVID-19 shot, according to updated estimates from the CDC.
7 healthcare 'moonshots'
The Biden administration has taken on a worthy adversary with its “moonshot” goal of halving cancer deaths over the next 25 years and, in the process, saving 4 million lives. But what other “moonshot” projects would healthcare leaders take on?
HCA-affiliated hospital names COO
Alejandro Romero is the new chief operating officer at El Paso, Texas-based Del Sol Medical Center.
Allina Health names hospital president
Minneapolis-based Allina Health has named Michael Johnston president of Mercy Hospital — which includes Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minn., and Mercy Hospital-Unity Campus in Fridley, Minn. — effective Nov. 20.
Trustee sues Missouri hospital system over open records act
A board of trustees member has filed a lawsuit against Perry County Health System in Missouri asking a judge to require the system to release documents through the state’s open records act, The Southeast Missourian reported Nov. 16.
Where states are boosting hospital Medicaid payments
For state fiscal year 2023, 29 states increased inpatient hospital Medicaid rates, 25 increased outpatient rates and 27 increased physician rates, according to data from KFF’s annual State Medicaid Budget Surveys published in November.
How 2 hospitals are combating 'quiet quitting' and other workforce trends
Stress, burnout and frustration in the workplace have resulted in workforce trends such as “quiet quitting” and “rage applying,” and hospitals are taking aim at the issues that give rise to these movements.
