Fitch Ratings downgraded West Reading, Pa.-based Tower Health's revenue bond rating to "BBB" from "A."

The opening of Medical University of South Carolina Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital has been pushed back again, according to local news station WCSC.

New York City-based GlobexUS Holdings — also dubbed Horizon — announced Dec. 3 a $5 million Series A funding round.

The hospitals featured on Becker's Hospital Review's 100 hospitals and health systems with great orthopedic programs list for 2019 have earned recognition for quality of care and patient satisfaction for orthopedic and spine surgery.

Health insurers are requesting the Trump administration to extend the comment period for its proposed price transparency rule an additional 90 days, according to Politico's Pulse newsletter.

The new CEO of Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, La., said the most critical health issues the hospital is prioritizing are premature birth rates and maternal deaths, according to the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report.

Humana and Philips partnered on two new programs that use remote medical alert systems to monitor Medicare Advantage members who are at risk of health complications, the companies said Dec. 4.

Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking presidents during the past few weeks.

Almost $6 billion in fraudulent payments is expected to be recovered by HHS' Office of Inspector General, federal officials said in their semiannual report to Congress.

A small hospital in Tennessee submitted "suspicious" claims to BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee to collect improper payments, the health insurer alleged in a news release shared with the Tennessean.

Springfield, Mo.-based Cox Medical Center South informed a couple that, after a stillbirth, their baby's remains are missing, providing no explanation as to how or where the infant's body is, according to the Springfield News-Leader.

HIV testing, treatment and prevention efforts must improve in order to achieve the U.S. goal of reducing the new infection rate by 90 percent in the next 10 years, according to a CDC Vital Signs report published Dec. 3. 

Hospitals in Louisiana saw much larger volumes of flu patients this November compared to the same month last year, reports CNN.

Health officials from HHS, the CDC and the National Institutes of Health met with House leaders Dec. 4 to discuss emergency preparedness for flu season.

Viant Medical has signed a consent order with the state of Michigan to end its sterilization operations in Grand Rapids by the end of the year. 

The FDA sent a warning letter Dec. 3 to American Contract Systems, a medical devicemaker and contract sterilizer, sayings its facility in Houston failed to validate its sterilization operations. 

Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, N.C., has tapped Adia K. Ross, MD, to serve as CMO, the hospital announced.

As a team leader and throughout my 20-plus year career, there have been specific instances where a star teammate has faltered.

Ford's GoRide Health non-emergency transportation service is in the process of shuttering across the five regions of Ohio and Michigan in which it was available, with an expected end date of Dec. 13, according to a notice on the service's website.

With the announcement that Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin have stepped back from their management positions to take more advisory roles in the company they co-founded, Google CEO Sundar Pichai now leads all of Alphabet, including its expansion into healthcare.