Central Health — Travis County, Texas’ public hospital district — on Sept. 6 voted to approve its fiscal year 2024 budget, which includes $7 million in emergency funding, according to NPR affiliate KUT 90.5.
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Safety and on-site hospital leadership: A complex balance
The COVID-19 pandemic forced healthcare organizations to think differently about the workplace. Hospital and health system employees, particularly certain non-clinical staff, started working remotely when the crisis struck.
Safety and on-site hospital leadership: A complex balance
The COVID-19 pandemic forced healthcare organizations to think differently about the workplace. Hospital and health system employees, particularly certain non-clinical staff, started working remotely when the crisis struck.
Lifespan looks to purchase Epic for newly acquired primary group
Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan Health CFO Peter Markell said that the health system is working to get Coastal Medical, a practice it acquired, onto Epic, Providence Business Journal reported Sept. 8.
Lifespan recovering after $54M loss in 2022, CFO says
After posting a $54.8 million loss in the fiscal year 2022, Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan Health CFO Peter Markell said that the health system is headed in the right direction, Providence Business First reported Sept. 8.
A mantra among quiet quitters
Quiet quitting rose to popularity — online and on the clock — in summer 2022, as workers refused to go above and beyond their paygrade. Now, the movement has a hashtag: #ActYourWage, The New York Times reported Sept. 8.
Nurse in critical condition after being assaulted by patient
A Rhode Island nurse is in critical condition after he was assaulted by a patient, ABC affiliate WPRI reported Sept. 8.
9 more key statistics to note from Moody's hospital report
Operating margins fell to “unsustainable levels” in 2022, according to a Sept. 7 Moody’s report. Here, Becker’s breaks down more of the key comparative statistics to come out of the report using 2022 data.
HSHS' CFO exits on abrupt notice
Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System’s Chief Financial Officer, Kim Hodgkinson, abruptly left the health system Sept. 7, The State-Journal Register reported Sept. 8.
Philips looks to settle for $479M in respirator recall cases
More than three years after recalling millions of respirators because foam used to muffle noise entered the machines and patients’ lungs, Philips Respironics submitted a decision in federal court Sept. 7 to settle litigation related to the recall for $…
