Two hospitals shared plans to close the week of Feb. 16, highlighting the mounting financial and operational challenges that many healthcare facilities face across the country. Regency Hospital-Meridian (Miss.), a long-term acute care facility, is no longer accepting new admissions…
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Challenges such as emerging technology, government regulations, workforce shortages and increasing labor costs have driven a number of health system strategic leaders to pivot their approach for 2026. Faced with these challenges, leaders are creating new ways to empower frontline…
Frist Cressey Ventures is partnering with health systems on its new $425 million fund. The venture capital firm is working with limited strategic partners including Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health and Columbus-based OhioHealth to invest in early-stage health tech and AI…
Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital plans to build an $810 million research center on its main hospital campus. The facility will be the organization’s second advanced research center and is expected to be completed in 2029, a hospital…
Rome (N.Y.) Health has launched a virtual nursing program on its 2 East medical-surgical unit, adding remote support for bedside nurses focused on patient education and discharge planning. The program places dedicated virtual nurses alongside bedside nurses to assist with…
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare’s Palm Beach Health Network is planning a revamped campus for its Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. Palm Beach Health Network has launched a long-term strategic partnership with real estate investment firm Easton Street…
The University of Texas System Board of Regents has approved a $300 million, multiphase expansion project at the University of Texas Medical Branch’s League City Hospital Campus. The project is designed to expand the hospital’s emergency and inpatient capacity to…
Marshall University School of Pharmacy in Huntington, W.Va., became the first pharmacy school in the U.S. to record a 100% pass rate on the 2025 West Virginia pharmacy law licensure exam. The exam, officially known as the Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence…
The physician assistant workforce grew 27.9% nationwide from 2020 to 2024, according to the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants’ 2024 Statistical Profile of Board Certified PAs by State. South Carolina led the nation with a 48% increase in…
The Justice Department and the state of Ohio on Feb. 20 filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against OhioHealth, alleging the system used anticompetitive contract provisions to drive up healthcare costs for patients and employers in central Ohio. Four things to…