Category: Press Release

The Lown Institute Hospitals Index named the top 10 hospitals for cost efficiency. The institute used clinical outcomes and cost Medicare fee-for-service claims for patients hospitalized from 2020 to 2022. The cost efficiency metric includes sub-metrics for 30- and 90-day cost efficiency, and measures risk-standardized hospital mortality rates against cost of care for Medicare patients. […]

Hospital and health system CIOs across the U.S. have made a flurry of leadership moves, including new appointments, promotions and retirements. Some executives have stepped into expanded roles within their organizations, while others have exited as health systems rethink how they structure technology leadership amid rapid digital transformation. The shifts come as CIO turnover remains […]

Walgreens is laying off more than 600 employees in two states as it continues reshaping operations under private equity ownership, Bloomberg reported Feb. 19. The company will reduce its Illinois workforce by 469 roles and eliminate 159 jobs in Texas as part of a distribution center shutdown. The cuts were detailed in notices the company […]

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi | North Central Bronx unveiled a new $2 million MRI suite at its North Central Bronx campus. The upgrade includes renovated rooms and new MRI machines, which the system said offer faster scan times and clearer, more distinct images to improve diagnostic capabilities and reduce patient wait times, […]

Jason Caron, MD, has stepped into his role as president and CEO of Sanford Health in Bemidji (Minn.). “After more than 20 years in this hospital, one thing remains clear: rural health care works best when the community and the hospital support each other,” he wrote in a Feb. 13 LinkedIn post.  Dr. Caron joined […]

The American Hospital Association is suggesting that hospitals and health systems consider deploying “zero trust” architecture to improve their cybersecurity. The National Security Agency recently released implementation guidelines for zero trust, a strategy that assumes no users or devices are safe and they must always be verified, according to a Feb. 19 AHA news release. […]

After exiting the World Health Organization in January, the Trump administration is proposing to spend $2 billion annually on a U.S.-run replacement, The Washington Post reported Feb. 19. The effort would replicate systems provided by the WHO, including laboratories, rapid-response systems and data-sharing networks, three administration officials briefed on the proposal told the Post. “HHS […]

The Host Mary Agnes Carey KFF Health News @maryagnescarey Read Mary Agnes’ stories. The midterm elections are months away, yet changes at the Department of Health and Human Services suggest the Trump administration is focusing on how to win on health care, which remains a top concern for voters. Facing growing concern about the administration’s […]

More than 10,000 people have enrolled in Nevada’s new public option health plans, which debuted last fall with the expectation that they would bring lower prices to the health insurance market. Those preliminary numbers from the open enrollment period that ended in January are less than a third of what state officials had projected. Nevada […]

Less than 36 hours before his wife was scheduled to undergo major surgery, New York Times personal finance columnist Ron Lieber got an unwelcome letter from his family’s insurance plan: It was denying prior authorization for the procedure.  With no time to lodge an appeal, Lieber and his wife decided to proceed and bet on […]