VillageMD’s Summit Health opened a new 30,000-square-foot multispeciality healthcare center in New York, continuing its rapid growth.
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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…
US nurse, child held hostage in Haiti released
An American nurse and her child on a humanitarian mission in Haiti have been freed two weeks after they were kidnapped and held hostage.
Hospitals, health systems appointing new IT execs
Here are four hospitals and health systems appointing new IT executives to their teams as reported by Becker’s since July 26:
Miami VA Healthcare halts elective surgeries amid AC failure
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 moving into Nashville as part of $1.35B project
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.
6 changes coming to HCAHPS in 2025
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.
Lurie Children's patient data exposed in NextGen breach
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.
