Southport, N.C.-based Dosher Memorial Hospital named Ed Tusa CFO. 

A former pharmacy technician at Chicago-based Lurie Children's Hospital has filed a lawsuit accusing the hospital of firing her in retaliation for reporting unsafe medication compounding practices, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Nov. 26. 

GLP-1 medications like Mounjaro and Saxenda might benefit stroke survivors and reduce some patients' healthcare costs, according to researchers. 

Jackie Kernan, MSN, RN, has been named president of OSF HealthCare St. Katharine Medical Center in Dixon, Ill.

Should employers, patients, or insurers bear the largest share of an annual $411 billion cost?

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems' planned $120 million sale of Commonwealth Health to a newly formed nonprofit organization has collapsed. 

More information has come to light following the closure of two Amarillo, Texas-based Northwest Texas Healthcare System freestanding EDs in late November due to hospital contractor NES Health's inability to pay employees.

A Maryland medical malpractice attorney known for his aggressive tactics faces up to 20 years in prison after a federal jury convicted him of attempting to extort $25 million from the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore.

Healthcare bankruptcies hit a five-year high in 2023, when 12 hospitals and health systems filed for bankruptcy, but the trend has slowed in 2024 as average operating margins improved across the hospital sector. 

Here are 88 health systems with strong operational metrics and solid financial positions, according to reports from credit rating agencies Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service released in 2024.

More than two dozen hospital mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations and partnerships were unwound or called off throughout the past few years.

Federal efforts to prevent fraud in the ACA marketplace are yielding positive results, but new restrictions aimed at curbing fraud may complicate the 2024 open enrollment period, KFF Health News reported Nov. 25. 

HHS has issued a final rule that removes clinical research requirements for kidney and liver transplants from donors with HIV to recipients with HIV. 

Overland Regional Medical Center in Kansas, part of HCA Midwest Health, has named Jim Boyle, MSN, RN, as chief nursing officer, according to a Nov. 25 news release sent to Becker's. 

Columbus-based OhioHealth CFO Michael Browning, a 30-year veteran of healthcare finance, has helped six of the eight health systems he's worked at undergo financial turnarounds. Mr. Browning told Becker's that while OhioHealth would not be considered a turnaround given its solid portfolio; he is focused on growth and operational excellence at the system. 

St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital will undergo a $62 million expansion project next year, The Tampa Bay Times reported Nov. 25.

Median days cash on hand dipped to a 10-year low for U.S. hospitals and health systems, according to an Aug. 7 S&P Global Ratings' report.

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, which has one of the largest and most robust virtual nursing programs in the U.S., has expanded the care model.

Cleveland Clinic reported an operating income of $43.4 million (1.1% margin) in the third quarter, reversing a $14.9 million operating loss (-0.4% margin) in the same period last year.

Cassava Sciences announced that the phase 3 trial of its Alzheimer's drug, simufilam, did not meet its primary endpoints.