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Orlando Health operating margin dips to 7.9%

Orlando (Fla.) Health has reported an operating income of $118.2 million in the second quarter, a $18.7 million (14 percent) decrease from the prior year period. Its operating margin dropped from 10.1 percent in the second quarter of 2022 to 7.9 percen…

Penn Medicine hospital names CEO

Bob Russell has been named CEO of Philadelphia-based Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, part of Penn Medicine.

Troubled Mercy Iowa City facility may not remain a hospital

Mercy Iowa City hospital, which is the subject of a takeover by the University of Iowa health system, may not remain as a hospital as bondholders seek to solicit other competitive bids from the likes of developers, according to a Sept. 12 The Gazette r…

Why employees leave jobs after a few months

To tangibly affect retention, employers should consider an increased focus on internal branding. 

IRS appealing Mayo Clinic's win in $11.5M tax dispute

The Internal Revenue Service filed an appeal Sept. 1 seeking to overturn a 2022 ruling that required the agency to repay $11.5 million to Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic.

A blind spot in healthcare quality work

With quality and safety underpinning nearly every aspect of healthcare work, one might assume hospitals and health systems have well-established ways of finding out what their total investments in quality and safety look like. Not so, leaders told Beck…

How Mayo uses AI for heart disease

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic created an AI algorithm that can take an ECG from an Apple Watch and predict if a patient has a low ejection fraction. 

COVID-19, flu and RSV: What to know as fall begins

Healthcare leaders are closely watching respiratory virus trends heading into fall. Overall, there is a healthy dose of optimism that the U.S. won’t see the same levels of severe disease that strained hospitals nationwide last year, though it’s still t…

Cerner facing headwinds

Cerner is facing some “near-term headwinds” as its parent company Oracle looks to move the EHR vendor to the cloud. 

Meta expands VR tech to healthcare

Dozens of hospitals and health systems across the country are using Meta’s virtual reality headsets to train clinicians on complex procedures, CNBC reported Sept. 9.