Rockledge, Fla.-based Health First will transfer ownership of its Health First Cancer Institute building to Titusville, Fla.-based Parrish Healthcare as part of the health systems' collaboration. 

Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region as a Category 4 storm Sept. 26, resulting in flooding and widespread power outages across the state. 

The rise of more transparent, "Cost Plus" pharmacy models is stirring debate within the pharmaceutical space as smaller players put pressure on the large PBMs.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont held a meeting the week of Sept. 16 with leaders of Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings and Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health to try and provide "tough love" to revive a stalled $435 million deal for Yale New Haven to take on three Prospect hospitals in Connecticut. 

An off-season spike in respiratory syncytial virus may have contributed to a rise in sudden unexpected infant deaths during the pandemic, according to a new study from researchers at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine. 

Multiple hospitals and health systems have suffered downgrades to their financial ratings this year amid rising expenses, ongoing operating losses and challenging work environments.

While consumers are hesitant to utilize generative AI for their own health research, they have a strong trust in their physicians to effectively leverage these tools in delivering care, a Sept. 26 survey from Deloitte found. 

A number of healthcare organizations have recently closed medical departments or ended services at facilities to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or address staffing shortages.

Improving a health system's margins goes beyond cost-cutting in today's challenging healthcare landscape; it requires mastering the fundamentals and creating alignment throughout the organization. 

Health systems' second-quarter financial results point to the beginning of a slow and sustained recovery, but challenges including high labor costs and the ongoing disconnect between revenue generation and expense requirements persist. 

Academic medical centers merge top-tier patient care with leading-edge research and education. The chief financial officers overseeing these institutions play a pivotal role in guiding financial strategies, handling substantial budgets, and fostering strategic partnerships to ensure financial stability and growth.

Hospitals are finding new ways to provide maternal care amid OB-GYN unit closures and growing research about maternal care deficiencies.

Average annual earnings for millennial physicians under age 40 climbed from $326,000 in 2022 to $338,000 in 2023, or around 4%, according to one new survey.

Health systems are appointing and elevating chief transformation officers to lead growth strategies and change management efforts.

Epic is urging Carequality, an interoperability network, to disclose the findings of a previous dispute involving Particle Health, which raised concerns about the company's data-sharing practices.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente will lay off 43 employees across several of its California locations Nov. 22, according to multiple WARN notices obtained by Becker's. 

New Jersey state Attorney General Matt Platkin filed a lawsuit on  Sept. 26 against Virtua Health and its network of hospitals in Voorhees, Mount Holly and Camden, alleging that the Marlton, N.J.-based health system's drug-testing policy for pregnant patients is discriminatory and violates patients' privacy.

Meditech is looking to improve its Expanse EHR platform with the addition of conversational and generative AI.

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has built the biggest hospital-at-home program in the country by getting buy-in from leadership and clinicians and through tech partnerships, executives said at a recent conference.

Rockledge, Fla.-based Health First is one of 19 new health systems moving to an Epic EHR. Here are six things to know.