Ninety percent of major urban areas in the U.S. have little healthcare competition, allowing hospital systems and insurers to enjoy monopoly status to the detriment of patient care, according to a July 27 opinion piece from The Buckeye Institute.
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What hospital CEOs want to see from ratings, rankings and grades
U.S. News & World Report, Healthgrades, The Leapfrog Group and CMS, among other outlets, have long offered hospital ratings, rankings and grades, which measure organizations based on many factors.
Vermont hospitals, state regulators far apart on proposed budgets
Health systems in Vermont are asking for significantly increased budgets to be approved while state regulators are looking for far lower numbers, according to a July 27 Vermont Public report.
153 great community hospitals | 2023
Becker’s is excited to release the 2023 edition of its “Great community hospitals” list.
Washington hospital nurses vote to unionize
Nurses at Confluence Health Hospital Mares Campus in Wenatchee, Wash., voted July 19 to join the Washington State Nurses Association.
A growing syndrome 42% of physicians are unaware of
Up to 450,000 people in the U.S. may have alpha-gal syndrome, a meat allergy linked to tick bites many physicians have never heard of, according to new findings from the CDC.
Advocate Aurora Health ratings affirmed at 'AA' given 'very strong financial profile'
Downers Grove, Ill.- and Milwaukee-based Advocate Aurora Health, now part of the combined Advocate Health after merging with Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health, saw various ratings affirmed at “AA” by Fitch July 21.
Which 3 Leapfrog straight-'A' hospitals got 3 stars from CMS?
Three of the 20 U.S. hospitals that have earned consecutive “A” safety grades from The Leapfrog Group since 2012 received three-star ratings from CMS, according to the CMS 2023 star rankings released July 26. The ratings were retrieved from the Hospita…
The EHR vendors hospitals, health systems are choosing
EHR giants Epic Systems, Oracle Cerner and Meditech are continuing to add hospitals and health systems to their rosters. Here is a look at the hospitals and health systems getting new EHR vendors and who they are switching to in 2023:
UC Davis Health employee's email account hacked
An employee email account from Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health was accessed by an unauthorized party, potentially breaching some patients’ protected health information.
