A hospital in Croatia is the first European member of Cleveland Clinic Connected, a program that offers organizations access to Cleveland Clinic branding, consultative services and education opportunities. The hospital, Radiochirurgia Zagreb, is a specialty hospital for early cancer diagnosis…
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Care New England’s Butler Hospital, a private nonprofit psychiatric and substance abuse hospital in Providence, R.I., said Aug. 7 it will close its addiction treatment unit, citing the indefinite strike by members of SEIU 1199NE. The 29-bed unit closure follows…
Cottage Children’s Medical Center, based at Santa Barbara (Calif.) Cottage Hospital, has joined Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Care Network. Through the collaboration, Cottage Children’s and CHLA will coordinate specialty care, train nurses and residency fellows, and share clinical best practices,…
Patient volumes at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center have fallen sharply in recent months, coinciding with staffing disruptions at HHS and the cancellation of research grants under the Trump administration, according to an Aug. 7 report from KFF…
Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare has added 15 new services at five outpatient facilities recently acquired from Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health, which shut down in May. ChristianaCare’s acquisition of the practices and services preserved more than 200 jobs in Delaware County that…
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As AI technology continues to advance and once revolutionary digital health tools become the new normal, healthcare leaders are learning more about what works and what does not. From patient privacy and physician education, six industry leaders shared with Becker’s…
Care access — including the staffing that drives it — is one of the biggest operational challenges hospitals face today, Caleb Miller, senior vice president of surgical services and ambulatory care at Urbana, Ill.-based Carle Health, told Becker’s. The eight-hospital…
A few decades ago, readmissions were seen as a mark of volume. Today, they are a marker of vulnerability. Especially in rural America, they expose the thin edge where clinical complexity meets social fragility. Ballad Health recently convened a systemwide…
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora is rescheduling elective procedures that were recently postponed due to staffing issues in the sterile processing department. On July 22, a UCHealth spokesperson said some elective surgeries were postponed due to insufficient staffing…
Rush University Medical Center, based in Chicago, temporarily diverted ambulances and canceled surgeries July 28 after a malfunction knocked out the air conditioning in the hospital’s main tower during a heat wave. A chilled water line disabled the building’s HVAC…