Hospitals and health systems are facing many financial pressures this year, and more than half of hospitals are projected to have negative margins for the rest of 2022. 

Here are 10 health systems with strong operational metrics and solid financial positions, according to reports from Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service.

Around 50 front-line employees of Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, N.H., will become employees of Conifer Health Solutions, Valley News reported Sept. 24.

The American Hospital Association is asking a federal judge to deny HHS' request to modify a court order requiring the department to completely eliminate its Medicare appeals backlog. 

Ten hospitals or health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise.

Oversight changes CMS made in its system to identify patients in inpatient services successfully reduced overpayments made for outpatient services these beneficiaries received, the HHS Office of Inspector General said in an audit. 

CommonSpirit Health, a 142-hospital system based in Chicago, reported a loss for the 12 months ended June 30, according to financial documents released Sept. 23. 

A recent survey conducted by Ellevest, a women-centered financial company, found that money is women's top cause of stress.

A recent study conducted by NiceRx revealed which U.S. states are spending the most and the least on mental health services. 

The National Institutes of Health awarded $100 million to support nine Autism Centers of Excellence, according to a Sept. 6 news release.

St. Francis Medical Center, a teaching hospital in Trenton, N.J., has been struggling financially for years, and it will close if a purchase agreement for the facility receives regulatory approval, according to NJ Advance Media. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare, which operates ambulatory surgery centers and provides physician staffing services, is on the brink of bankruptcy, according to Moody's Investors Service. 

Boston-based Mass General Brigham plans to reduce total medical spending by $127.8 million a year, according to a Sept. 22 report from The Boston Globe.

Ohio's attorney general, Dave Yost, ordered Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica to pay at least one of the two $3.8 million monthly payments it owes to the University of Toledo's College of Medicine and Life Sciences within the next seven days to avoid a state-issued lawsuit, CBS affiliate WTOL11 reported Sept. 21.

Chicago-based Claro Healthcare entered a definitive agreement to join healthcare and higher education management consulting firm Kaufman, Hall & Associates, according to a Sept. 22 news release.

The primary care physicians market value is projected to grow to $850 billion by 2030, according to a Sept. 22 analysis from Global Market Insights.

Hospitals lose tens of billions of dollars each year due to revenue leakage. This is a huge problem that hospitals often fail to act upon. But real-time insights from PointClickCare can help healthcare organizations decrease revenue leakage while improving patient outcomes.

From health system partnerships to its acquisition of Cloudmed, here are six headlines about R1 RCM Becker's has covered since June 21. 

U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin have approved $267,000 in funding for Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital to expand neonatal services at Hoops Family Children Hospital, also in Huntington. 

The following are hospitals or care centers that have received donations since Sept. 14: