From announcing a new CEO and president to completing its acquisition of Cloudmed, here are five headlines about R1 RCM from 2022. 

Peter Ostasewski, RN, has been appointed CFO for Penn State Health Medical Group in State College, Pa., effective Dec. 19.

Southern Illinois Healthcare, a four-hospital system based in Carbondale, is eliminating or restructuring 76 jobs in management and leadership, a decision President and CEO Rex Budde called "truly a last resort," The Southern Illinoisan reported Dec. 7. 

Patients are staying longer in hospital — often because there are inadequate resources to discharge them — and the solution may be Congress implementing a per diem Medicare payment to help unblock the bottleneck, the American Hospital Association said Dec.…

Sustained high labor expenses and inflationary pressures will continue to affect the healthcare industry in 2023, keeping the outlook for nonprofit hospital systems negative, Moody's said in a Dec. 7 report.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is calling on regulators to consider the community impact of Sharon (Conn.) Hospital's planned closure of its labor and delivery services following 300 petitions from community members.

The largest nonprofit health systems, Ascension, CommonSpirit Health and Trinity Health, reported net losses in the three months ended Sept. 30 compared to net incomes in the same period a year earlier.

Real estate investment trusts, including those largely involved in healthcare facilities, may be under increasing pressure from investors anxious over the current state of the commercial real estate market.

Economic activity, driven by easing staff hiring conditions and greater inpatient volumes, grew in November for the 30th straight month in the hospital subsector, the Institute for Supply Management said Dec. 7.

The CDC is awarding Georgia $100 million to bolster the state's public health infrastructure, workforce and data systems, NPR affiliate GPB reported Dec. 6.