Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare expects a 20% reduction in ACA exchange enrollment this year with the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits set to pressure hospital earnings and payer mix. The company is projecting adjusted EBITDA of up to $4.8 billion…
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Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health has named two chief nursing officers to lead several of its Michigan hospitals. Carolyn Leja, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nurse of Trinity Health Grand Rapids and Nicholas Strait, DNP, RN, will serve as CNO of…
A California lawmaker is putting pressure on the University of California to build a medical school in Kern County, which has been federally designated as a physician shortage area since 1978. On Feb. 10, Jasmeet Bains, MD, a Democrat representing…
Grand Forks-based University of North Dakota launched a federal funded nursing program to prepare students to care for older adults in acute care and long-term care settings. The Gero-STARR program will recruit first-semester nursing students enrolled in the university’s bachelor’s…
Salt Lake City-based Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah will be the first U.S. academic medical center to manufacture a novel prostate cancer imaging drug, flotufolastat F 18. The drug was developed by Blue Earth Diagnostics and will…
Price transparency laws for healthcare organizations were first implemented in 2021 and have progressively strengthened since, but have they helped patients? The laws were introduced during President Donald Trump’s first term and require hospitals to publicly post their payer-specific negotiation…
Buckhannon, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital has launched a healthcare training pathway for high school students. The MedED Program will train high school juniors and seniors how to be patient care technicians, according to a Feb. 10 system news…
Most medical students in the U.S. receive little or no formal training in guiding patients and their families through end-of-life care, WSU Insider reported Jan. 14. A study from Pullman-based Washington State University, published Dec. 3 in Academic Medicine, analyzed…
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 Every day, your health system makes thousands of operational decisions—referrals, scheduling, site of care, discharge planning. What if each decision could simultaneously optimize for quality, patient experience, and margin across every one of your payment contracts?…
Gregory Piper was appointed president of Beacon Allegan, a 25-bed critical access hospital in southwest Michigan. Mr. Piper has served in the role on an interim basis since November 2025. Before his interim appointment, he held leadership roles at the…