Coeur D’Alene, Idaho-based Kootenai Health has reduced its contract labor costs significantly so far in 2023, but its labor and overall expenses still increased in the first six months of the year.
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UMass Memorial maternity ward closure complicated by state
The Massachusetts Department of Health determined that UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital Leominster (Ma.) Campus’ maternity ward is an essential service, complicating plans from the system to close it.
West Virginia system eyes end to 'human error' with new pharmacy tool
Three of Mon Health System’s four hospitals are implementing a software that uses barcoding and cameras to verify sterile compounding doses, the Morgantown, W.Va.-based system said Aug. 9.
MemorialCare names CFO, COO duo for 2 hospitals
MemorialCare’s Long Beach (Calif.) Medical Center and Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach have a new chief operating officer, Todd Blake, and CFO, Patti Pilgrim.
HCA continues Virginia expansion with new construction and services
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, the largest operator of hospitals in the country, is further developing its presence in Virginia with plans to add to its capacity at the Richmond-based Johnston-Willis hospital, according to an Aug. 9 Richmond Bi…
Amazon's One Medical partners with health system to open 1st Connecticut location
Amazon’s One Medical is opening its first Connecticut location in Darien as the group partners with Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare, CT Insider reported Aug. 8.
How VillageMD's new $8.9B healthcare company keeps expanding
VillageMD’s Summit Health opened a new 30,000-square-foot multispeciality healthcare center in New York, continuing its rapid growth.
The looming health system 'redesign'
Healthcare C-suites are zeroing in on system “redesigns” to provide more care and services with fewer staff members and tighter margins than ever before.
Highmark Health hospital-at-home admissions increase
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…
UHS revenue broken down by payer
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…
