Franciscan Health plans to end inpatient and emergency care at its 226-bed hospital in Hammond, Ind., by the end of 2022.

S&P Global Ratings issued a negative outlook for Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare.

Across the U.S., a total of 631 rural hospitals — or about 30 percent of all rural hospitals — are at risk of closing in the immediate or near future due to persistent financial losses on patient services, inadequate revenues…

The median proportion of operating expenses hospitals dedicate to charity care is 1.4 percent, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. 

A recently shuttered Iowa hospital is eligible for the new rural emergency hospital designation, according to CMS' final rules for the designation. 

North Kansas City (Mo.) Hospital has received $3 million on behalf of the Nancy Ruth Botham estate, the largest donation in the facility's history.

Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences was awarded more than $2 million from the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration to equip and support primary care providers in screening, diagnosing, treating, and referring children with behavioral health conditions.

Salt Lake City-based University of Utah was gifted $3.6 million from the Mark and Kathie Miller Pediatric Genomics Fund to support pediatric genetic research programs at the Center for Genomic Medicine.

Large health systems are reporting big losses this year while insurers continue to turn billion-dollar profits.

CMS will increase hospital outpatient payment rates by 3.8 percent in 2023, but the American Hospital Association said the adjustment is "insufficient given the extraordinary cost pressures" from labor, supplies, equipment, drugs and other expenses.