Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees across the U.S. are preparing to go on strike this week after their contract expired with no new labor agreement in place.
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Health system execs add revenue with clinical innovation
Hospital and health system executives are looking for ways to add revenue as costs continue to increase and margins stay tight. Many see boosting clinical care services, outcomes and value-based care initiatives as the path to a stronger financial situ…
Employees stabbed at New York hospital: Police
Two employees at Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., were stabbed by a patient Oct. 1, according to police.
NYC hospital evacuates amid flooding, transfers patients
New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals Woodhull campus in Brooklyn evacuated and transferred 116 patients Sept. 30 to allow the facility to shut down its power and assess flood-related damage.
COVID-19 vaccine pioneers win Nobel Prize
Katalin Karikó, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD — two Penn Medicine scientists known for their groundbreaking work on messenger RNA that laid the foundation for COVID-19 vaccines — have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Hospital margins inch up to 1.1% in August
Hospital margins are moving in the right direction, as the median year-to-date operating margin improved in August to 1.1 percent, according to Kaufman Hall.
New York system faces lawsuit over patient sexual assault cases
A new lawsuit against New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center alleges the system covered up years of abuse by urologist Darius Paduch, MD, Fox News reported Sept. 29.
California hospital fined for price transparency violation
CMS has fined West Covina (Calif.) Medical Center alleged price transparency violations.
LCMC Health taps chief revenue officer
New Orleans-based LCMC Health has named Anthony Cunningham chief revenue officer.
COVID-19 metrics continue decline: 4 updates
COVID-19 hospitalizations have fallen for the second week after the U.S. noted a slight uptick every week since July, according to CDC data.
