Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital plans to host a ribbon-cutting Feb. 11 to celebrate the grand opening of its new 32,000-square-foot innovation center. The facility, located in the city’s Ybor City neighborhood, will house the health system’s innovation, IT and analytics…
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The American Hospital Association has named WVU Medicine Potomac Valley Hospital in Keyser, W.Va., as the 2026 recipient of its new Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award. The award will be presented at the 39th annual AHA Rural Health Care…
UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., will begin accepting admissions to its hospital-at-home program Feb. 4 after pausing new admissions during a partial government shutdown, the health system confirmed to Becker’s. The health system stopped accepting new hospital-at-home patients…
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is migrating its entire technology infrastructure to the cloud through a partnership with Amazon Web Services, a move that will help the health system build a stronger technology foundation. “This is part of a much bigger…
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare President and CEO Jeffrey Flaks has been named Press Ganey’s inaugural HX26 Innovator of the Year, an award recognizing healthcare executives who embed innovation into daily operations. Introduced in 2026, the Innovator of the Year award honors…
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A partial government shutdown took effect Jan. 31 after Congress missed a midnight Jan. 30 deadline to pass a revised federal funding package — disrupting some health systems’ hospital-at-home programs as Medicare waivers tied to the service temporarily lapsed. Although…
AdventHealth Castle Rock (Colo.) has launched a virtual nursing model aimed at streamlining inpatient admissions and enhancing bedside care. The virtual admit nursing program, now live, is a nursing-led model wherein trained virtual nurses complete or assist with inpatient admissions,…
The Orlando (Fla.) VA Health Care System is implementing ambient artificial intelligence technology to assist with clinical documentation. The tool listens to clinician-patient conversations and generates draft medical notes in real time. Clinicians can review, edit and finalize the notes.…
Renton, Wash.-based Providence has reduced its IT application portfolio by more than a third, saving “millions” of dollars in the process, a leader told Becker’s. The 51-hospital system has downsized from over 2,000 applications five years ago to about 1,300…
Tulsa, Okla.-based Saint Francis Health System has rolled out a hospital-at-home program it says will continue even if Medicare reimbursement stops. The health system launched acute hospital care at home in collaboration with local payer CommunityCare, which is jointly owned…