Monique Reese, DNP, RN, senior vice president of home and community care at Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health, said the system has seen the average number of monthly admissions into its hospital-at-home programs increase “more than eightfold between 202…
Patients with commercial insurance or those enrolled in privately-managed Medicare and Medicaid plans were responsible for 59 percent of Universal Health Services’ patient service revenues in the first half of 2023, according to the King of Prussia, Pa…
An American nurse and her child on a humanitarian mission in Haiti have been freed two weeks after they were kidnapped and held hostage.
Here are four hospitals and health systems appointing new IT executives to their teams as reported by Becker’s since July 26:
All elective surgeries at a Miami VA Hospital were halted Aug. 8 after an air conditioning unit stopped working, the Miami Herald reported.
Oracle Health will soon be right in the middle of healthcare’s American “mecca” when its parent company opens a new $1.35 billion facility in Nashville, Tenn., the Nashville Business Journal reported.
CMS is making key changes to HCAHPS to modernize the survey and increase patient response rates, the agency said in its Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule released Aug. 1.
Patient data from Chicago-based Lurie Children’s Surgical Foundation was leaked due to a breach on its third-party electronic billing provider, NextGen Healthcare.
Krista Curell, RN, has been appointed executive vice president and COO of University of Chicago Health System, according to an all-staff message shared with Becker’s.
Hospital and health system executives are cutting service lines operating at a loss to shore up finances, address staffing shortages and focus on more in-demand services. But scaling back certain services has led to reduced access to care for patients,…
