Some younger workers are pausing their careers for travel or other endeavors to experience a "microretirement," The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 3.

Hackers infiltrated a Maine hospital's IT network in July and may have stolen patient data, the Bangor (Maine) Daily News reported.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, the nation's largest health system, continues to embrace artificial intelligence to improve its clinical and administrative operations.

To fill operating rooms and financial incentives, obstetricians are often performing unneeded cesarean sections on Black women, according to researchers who analyzed about 1 million births across 68 New Jersey hospitals. 

Robert Nelson, BSN, RN, was named CEO of Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine, Texas. 

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare participated in a $25 million growth financing round for Pieces Technologies, a healthcare AI research and development firm offering a clinical generative AI solution.

The monthly operating margin index for hospitals was 3.8% in July, up from 3.3% in June, indicating the beginning of a slow and sustained recovery for nonprofit hospital systems, according to Kaufman Hall. 

More people younger than 50 are getting cancer, and clinicians are not immune to this trend.

Kaiser Permanente, based in Oakland, Calif., and Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health have expanded their partnership through a long-term agreement in Colorado, which will provide both organizations with a fully integrated EHR system.

Raleigh-based UNC Health Rex, a satellite campus part of Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health, has filed a certificate of need application to build a hospital in Wake Forest, N.C., for $462.1 million, a spokesperson for UNC Health told Becker's Sept. 11. 

U.S. resident physicians saw their salaries or stipends increase this year. However, in a new Medscape report, many argued they are not paid enough for their work and needs.

"Skyrocketing" administrative costs and increasingly burdensome insurer policies are driving up care denials, straining hospital resources and delaying patient care, the American Hospital Association reported Sept. 10. 

Fifty percent of women say they have skipped or delayed medical care, undercutting a longstanding myth that men are more likely to put off routine healthcare, according to a new report from Deloitte. 

UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation has launched a campaign to raise $200 million for the Pittsburgh hospital.

The American Medical Association released updates Sept. 10 to its Current Procedural Terminology code set for 2025.

Becker's has compiled a list of the best hospitals for staff responsiveness in each state using data from CMS.

Becker's has compiled a list of the top geriatric hospitals in every state based on U.S. News & World Report's 2024 rankings.

Jennifer Jones has been appointed CEO of Cincinnati Rehabilitation Hospital in Blue Ash, Ohio, effective Aug. 28.

A surgical team at NYU Langone Health in New York City recently performed the first fully robotic lung transplant in the U.S. 

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Christopher Lopez approved the sale of three Dallas-based Steward Health Care hospitals in Florida to Orlando (Fla.) Health for $439.42 million in cash ina Sept. 10 court hearing.