Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare are among the largest for-profit health systems in the U.S. Here are how both health systems stack up in facilities, teams, financials, strategy and more. HCA Healthcare: 192Tenet Healthcare: 49 HCA Healthcare:…

Washington, Ind.-based Daviess Community Hospital has shared plans to close its DCH Clinic of Jasper, effective May 30.  All services and providers at the clinic will relocate to other DCH locations to continue seeing patients, according to a May 21…

As health systems adapt to shifting financial pressures and strategic imperatives, the country’s largest players are reshaping their footprints through bold mergers and portfolio overhauls. Organizations like Ascension and Community Health Systems have streamlined their operating models via strategic hospital…

As much as geography and culture might separate our two health systems, our shared mission gives us common cause to fight for an endangered federal program that provides a lifeline to the families and communities we serve: Medicaid. Make no…

The massive reconciliation bill that passed the House of Representatives in a 215-214 vote May 22 includes provisions to increase Medicare physician payments by 2.25% in 2026 and implement ongoing annual inflation-based payments thereafter.  Five things to know: 

Some of Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings’s hospitals in Connecticut have secured interest from ‘multiple buyers’ after a $435 million deal with Yale New Haven Health (Conn.) to buy all three facilities was dubbed “impossible” in February, The Middletown Press…

Multiple hospitals and health systems have suffered downgrades to their financial ratings this year amid rising expenses, ongoing operating losses and challenging work environments. Here are eight hospitals and health systems that received credit rating downgrades from Fitch Ratings or…

Moulton, Ala.-based Lawrence Medical Center, an affiliate of Huntsville Hospital Health System, will permanently close its emergency department at 7 p.m. on May 23 and plans to phase out inpatient services as part of a strategic shift to become an…

Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health posted an operating income of $96.5 million (2.8% operating margin) in the first quarter of 2025, up from an operating income of $29.5 million (0.9% margin) during the same period last year, according to its…

CMS updated its hospital price transparency guidance May 22, requiring hospitals to post the actual prices of items and services, not estimates. The update comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order Feb. 25 aimed at boosting healthcare price…