Washington University in St. Louis, commonly known as WashU, recently received its largest gift: $200 million for the nation’s first school for public health since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bursky Family Foundation — established by alumni Andrew Bursky, chair of…
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In 2025, the average U.S. hospital lost $5.19 million from registered nurse turnover. Financially and operationally, a persistently high turnover rate among early-career nurses presents a growing risk for the industry, according to Press Ganey’s “State of Nursing 2026” report.…
A new program designed by a Decatur, Ill.-based university and a hospital’s charitable foundation will provide eligible nursing students up to $50,000 in scholarships and tuition assistance. On May 11, Decatur Memorial Foundation and Millikin University announced their partnership and…
When locum tenens staffing works, it’s invisible. When it doesn’t, everyone feels it — clinical leaders, finance teams, and operations alike. Many organizations have learned that throwing more vendors and more technology at the problem only adds noise. MedicusOne was…
Chicago-based Cook County Health, one of the nation’s largest public health systems, has launched a new website and communications toolkit to educate the public about looming Medicaid eligibility changes — and is positioning the effort as something other health systems…
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Roughly 50 insurers signed an AHIP and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association commitment to standardize electronic prior authorization across most medical services, according to an April 24 news release. The approach will apply to services commonly requiring prior authorization, including…
Women in healthcare leadership continue to navigate contradictory expectations — decisive but accommodating, authoritative but approachable. The tactics for cutting through those expectations are shifting from vague advice about leaning in toward concrete organizational practices around clarity, sponsorship, environment and…
Many health systems are treating climbing denial rates as a documentation problem. They’re not. They’re the output of a deliberate, structural shift in how payers operate—one that has outpaced what any human workflow can sustainably address. Initial claim denial rates…
Oakland-based University of California Health launched a tool in its EHR to help treat hypertension in patients systemwide. The UC Way Hypertension Medication Algorithm uses a stepwise approach to increasing medication types and doses, according to a March 18 system…
AI chatbots often project overconfidence, expressing certainty where it doesn’t exist. That’s dangerous for healthcare. So researchers affiliated with Beth Israel Lahey Health, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, all based in Cambridge, developed a framework to make…