The American Organization for Nursing Leadership will award five nursing leaders, one hospital and one chapter at its annual conference March 29-April 1, in Chicago. Here are the award recipients, according to a March 26 news release from the organization: Jeffrey Doucette, DNP, RN, senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Press Ganey, will […]
Continue ReadingWest Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Ill., has been offered aid from another state hospital after payroll challenges tied to its EMR system triggered it to suspend patient services March 27. Insight Hospital & Medical Center Chicago, part of Flint, Mich.-based Insight Health Systems, has offered to “step in” to maintain the 234-bed safety-net […]
Continue ReadingTen hospitals and health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise. Note: This is not an exhaustive list. Listings were compiled from job-seeker sites. 1. Baton Rouge (La.) General seeks a director of patient financial services. 2. Boston Children’s Hospital seeks a vice president of revenue cycle operations. 3. Chesapeake (Va.) Regional […]
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In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson Nutrition’s acidified liquid human milk fortifier — a nutritional supplement used in […]
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Last summer, Lorena Alvarado Hill received a series of unexpected medical bills. A teacher’s aide in Melbourne, Florida, Hill is a single mom who works shifts at J.Crew on the weekends to send her daughter to college. Hill and her mother, who lives with her, had been enrolled in an insurance plan through HealthFirst. Hill […]
Continue ReadingOverall population growth in the U.S. slowed between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, though some metro areas along the Southeast coast bucked the trend. According to a March 26 report from the Census Bureau, the 10 fastest-growing metro areas by percentage growth were: Ocala, Fla.: 3.4% Myrtle […]
Continue ReadingMercyOne Clinton (Iowa) Medical Center has shared plans to transition labor and delivery services to other Iowa-based MercyOne birth centers in Davenport, Dubuque and Silvis. May 26 is the last day for scheduled deliveries at the hospital, which is part of Des Moines, Iowa-based MercyOne. “Despite significant efforts over the past several years, MercyOne has […]
Continue ReadingNewport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag named Aaron Ahearn, MD, PhD, surgical director for its liver and kidney transplant program. The program builds off Hoag’s liver and pancreas program and has been five years in development, according to a March 27 system news release. The program is expected to launch in early 2027, pending regulatory approval. Dr. […]
Continue ReadingDefining return on investment for healthcare technology has never been more consequential — or more contested. As health systems face mounting financial pressure, workforce strain and the rapid proliferation of AI-driven tools, the question of what truly constitutes a return on a technology investment has grown more complex than a simple cost-benefit calculation. The old […]
Continue ReadingHospitals and health systems have continued to close maternity units, citing ongoing financial challenges, workforce shortages and declining birth rates. However, in rural Kansas, AdventHealth Ottawa — part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth — recently restored labor and delivery services to Franklin County. The AdventHealth Ottawa Family Birth Place temporarily closed in 2023 and reopened […]
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