Private equity firms, physician groups and payers have acquired the majority of physician practices over the last five years, according to a report published June 26 by the American Hospital Association.
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Healthcare innovation fund launches with $200M
Vertex Ventures, a women-led healthcare investment firm, launched its third fund with $200 million to invest.
USC Arcadia Hospital nurses approve new contracts
Members of the California Nurses Association and its affiliate, Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union, have approved new three-year contracts at USC Arcadia (Calif.) Hospital.
Polluted air linked to longer hospital stays for kids with asthma
A recent study found poor air quality led to longer hospital stays for children with asthma.
How this hospital upped safety reporting 50%, per its CEO
Hospital culture can prevent unnecessary medical errors, yet most hospitals are slow to adopt a framework that prevents adverse events, Christine Schuster, RN, president and CEO of Concord, Mass.-based Emerson Health, wrote in an opinion piece publishe…
Why more CIOs are becoming CEOs
More and more IT chiefs are becoming CEOs as digital transformation has become foundational to many companies’ growth, CIO reported June 26.
Patient experience is finally recovering. Is your organization ready?
At the close of 2021, I wrote that we were in a patient experience crisis. With the pandemic grinding on and omicron surges hitting most of us, the outlook was grim. My colleagues and I had never seen patient experience metrics drop so rapidly, and thi…
12 recent hospital lawsuits, settlements
From NYU Langone suing Northwell Health over the shade of purple it used in its advertising campaign, to Ascension facing a lawsuit for allegedly taking employees’ fingerprints without consent, here are 12 hospital lawsuits and settlements Becker’s has…
Epic in the last 30 days
From putting hospitals and health systems on its noncompete list to having Beacon be listed as one of the best oncology EHRs, here are five updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in June:
4 tips to help nurses land their dream position
Nurses who are considering a career move — whether due to nursing-patient-ratios, burnout or even that they’ve found that bedside nursing is not bringing them the joy it once did — have options other than leaving the profession entirely.
