MetroHealth has increased patients' refill retention rate from 35% to 80% — thanks to a few shifts in its operating model.

About 140 infants were abducted from healthcare facilities between 1964 and April 2024, and the number continued to decline, NPR affiliate WHYY reported Aug. 22.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare started 2024 with a flurry of hospital sales, selling nine hospitals to three health systems and netting nearly $4 billion in gross proceeds. 

Hospital consolidation continues to gather momentum across the country, with one state in particular, Pennsylvania, seeing more merger and acquisition activity than any other.

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine just expanded ambient artificial intelligence to clinicians across its health system, but its CIO is already looking at what comes next.

Charleston, S.C.-based Roper St. Francis Healthcare has named Becky Tucker CFO. 

Sheila Bollier has been named CEO of Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Houston at The Medical Center, which is expected to open in November.

Two-thirds of communication errors in healthcare relate to patient handoffs, according to The Joint Commission. After finding these handoffs were a root cause of miscommunication safety events, MD Anderson Cancer Center sought to flip the script. 

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health reported a nine-month operating income of $15.2 million (0.7% margin) up from $11.5 million (0.6% margin) posted over the same period in 2023, according to its Aug. 23 financial report. 

West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health is working to harness the power of predictive modeling to identify early signs of patient deterioration, enabling clinical teams across its 12 hospitals to intervene more quickly and save lives.

The next big disruptor transforming healthcare isn't a retailer, tech giant or payer. It's not private equity or regulators. It's a force familiar to hospital C-suites, and underappreciated for years: patients.

Moody's upgraded Baltimore-based Mercy Health Services' rating to "A3" from "Baa1."

The inaugural class at the regional medical school campus Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., will begin learning from a unique curriculum Aug. 26. 

Two weeks after Kettering Health shared plans to replace Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia, Ohio, with a $44 million medical facility, city officials have implemented a 60-day moratorium on standalone emergency room facilities.

The former CEO of Virginia Gay Hospital, a privately operated, nonprofit rural hospital in Vinton, Iowa, pleaded guilty Aug. 20 to one count of wire fraud for embezzling more than $3.2 million from his former California employer, according to the Justice Department.

After seeing departures from several hospitalists, oncologists, physicians, nurses and urologists, HCA Mission Hospital's staff is about to slim from five neurologists to two, the Asheville Watchdog reported Aug. 20. 

A federal grand jury has indicted an alleged member of a hacking group that tried to extort hospitals.

Epic is developing features for its EHR ranging from artificial intelligence agents in MyChart to more connectivity between payers and providers, the company said at its Users Group Meeting.

Long Branch, N.J.-based Monmouth Medical Center, a RWJBarnabas hospital, hired Ann Szapor, BSN, RN, as chief nursing officer.

Seventy percent of physicians say workplace culture is just as important to them as compensation, a recent Medscape report found.