Philanthropist Tom Golisano has committed $225 million to six children’s hospitals, expanding the Golisano Children’s Alliance to 21 members nationwide. The six recipients are: Alongside joining the alliance, each children’s hospital will rebrand campuses or programs to adopt the Golisano…
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The CDC reorganized its National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, consolidating offices and renaming divisions and branches, according to a Sept. 9 Federal Register notice. The changes took effect Sept. 4. Here are three things to know:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology topped Forbes’ 2026 ranking of America’s top colleges, a list that includes several schools affiliated with academic health systems. Forbes’ “America’s Top Colleges” ranking, published Sept. 10, includes 500 four-year institutions. It evaluates schools using…
The Trump administration is directing $11.7 million through the Rural Health Transformation Program to support rural nursing care facilities and strengthen Vermont’s healthcare workforce. Vermont is committing $9 million of the funding to tuition benefits for healthcare professionals in underserved…
Succession planning in the age of AI: Building the next generation of revenue cycle leaders
AI is absorbing much of the entry-level, repetitive work that once taught generations of revenue cycle professionals the business. That raises a workforce question the industry is only beginning to answer: If the traditional training ground changes, what takes its…
Restaurant chain Chili’s Bar & Grill has committed to raising $150 million for Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The funding will be distributed over the next 15 years and used to support the new Chili’s Clinical Center at…
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown and Saint Thomas West in Nashville, Tenn., could lose their Medicare provider agreements effective Sept. 18 after the health system failed to submit an acceptable safety plan following an Aug. 14 medication error, according to…
Hospital and health system CIOs across the U.S. have made a flurry of leadership moves, including new appointments, promotions and retirements. Some executives have stepped into expanded roles within their organizations, while others have exited as health systems rethink how…
Septicemia is the most expensive condition treated in hospitals, amounting to $60 billion in annual costs, a Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project report found. The report, published February 2026, used 2022 data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s…
EHR migrations have become one of the defining capital projects of the year for hospitals and health systems, with price tags ranging from a few million dollars for a single critical access hospital to well over a billion for the…