San Antonio-based Methodist Healthcare System invested $75 million to reopen a shuttered San Antonio hospital before the end of the month, San Antonio Business Journal reported Sept. 18.

Pittsburgh-based UPMC is using Abridge's artificial intelligence software at scale to generate clinical notes by allowing it to hear patient conversations, local news outlet Fox43 reported Sept. 18.

When Amazon bought primary care company One Medical in February for nearly $4 billion, the tech giant also picked up several new health system partners.

General insurance denials and specific payer challenges are the biggest revenue cycle challenges facing providers, according to a Sept. 14 report from Plutus Health. 

Early fall labor confrontations are heating up, not least in the United Auto Workers strike called last week. Healthcare executives might do well to heed some lessons to make such disruption in their industry less likely, experts say.

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center in Lexington, Ky., has been designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute, according to a Sept. 18 report from the Winchester Sun.

Decatur, Texas-based Wise Health System has been downgraded five notches from "BB+" to "B-" as it continues to suffer from operating losses that are only likely to worsen in the near term, S&P Global said Sept. 15.

WebMD has honored 167 health systems in its 2023-24 Choice Awards — including 26 systems that patients and providers prefer 2:1 over competitors. 

Over the course of 15 years, Houston Methodist Hospital has reduced the sepsis death rate from 35 percent to 6 percent — progress driven by unwavering commitment and constant education.

Auburn (N.Y.) Community Hospital has named Joshua Alexander chief operating officer, fingerlakes1.com reported Sept. 18. 

Tom Thompson is stepping down as president and chief operating officer of Porter Medical Center in Middlebury, Vt. 

Seattle Children's has tapped Vittorio Gallo, PhD, as its senior vice president and chief scientific officer. 

Between January 2022 and July 2023, nurses in Massachusetts filed 12,600 unsafe staffing reports, according to a Sept. 18 news release from the state's nursing association. 

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine is beginning its search for a CEO and the next dean of its medical school. 

TriStar Hendersonville (Tenn.) Medical Center has appointed Lawana Leonhardt, MSN, RN, as the facility's first associate chief nursing officer. 

The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Duke University in Durham, N.C., tied for the top spot in U.S. News and World Report's Best Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs rankings.

Michelle Gaskill-Hames, BSN, MHA, was appointed regional president of Kaiser Permanente for Southern California and Hawaii. 

UPMC, MetroHealth and Keck Medicine of USC are among the health systems that announced new CFOs in the last month, with several hospitals also following suit as the fourth quarter approaches.

Recent data have shown a median improvement in 2023 operating margins for healthcare nonprofits except for the first two months of the year.

California is one legislative signature away from becoming the first state to legally require chain pharmacies to report all medication errors and create staffing level guidelines, according to CBS News.