At Cedar Crest Hospital in Belton, Texas, pharmacy leadership spent the past year focused on one core shift: modernizing medication distribution to improve safety in a high-risk psychiatric setting. Edith Okolo, PharmD, director of pharmacy, said 2025 marked a major…
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Cleveland Clinic generated $18 billion in operating revenue and completed nearly 16 million patient encounters in 2025, President and CEO Tom Mihaljevic, MD, said during a Jan. 26 annual address. It was a record number of patient encounters, a health…
Benjamin “BJ” Predum has been named Central Coast market president at Dignity Health, effective Feb. 2, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. In the role, Mr. Predum will oversee the following California hospitals: Mr. Predum joined Dignity Health…
Across health systems, chief medical information officers say physician frustration is not driven by a single broken workflow, but by the compounding effect of documentation burden, chart review overload, inbox volume, payer friction and fragmented digital tools that pull clinicians…
While healthcare job gains drove overall U.S. employment growth in December, the sector’s momentum has slowed below its 2024 and 2025 averages. Healthcare added an average of 56,000 jobs per month in 2024, but that figure fell to 34,000 in…
CMS proposed its 2027 Medicare Advantage and Part D capitation rates and payment policies Jan. 26, putting forth a slowdown in payment growth after a $25 billion boost for 2026. Five things to know:
Morgantown, W.Va.-based Mon Health is transitioning its hospital and clinic signage to Vandalia Health, reflecting the branding of its parent health system. Mon Health merged with Charleston (W.Va.) Area Medical Center in 2022 to create Vandalia, which is headquartered in…
Minneapolis-based Hennepin Healthcare is making service line changes that will result in the elimination of about 100 positions, citing a broader effort to stabilize its finances and protect core clinical services. The health system said Jan. 26 it will close…
As health systems head into 2026 amid margin pressure, policy uncertainty and rising demand, executives are converging around a shared set of priorities. Across responses from CEOs, CFOs and senior leaders, the message was consistent: growth must be disciplined, operationally…
As GLP-1 pills for weight loss enter the U.S. market, some pharmaceutical companies are testing the possibility of a gene therapy to stimulate GLP-1 production, The Washington Post reported Jan. 24. GLP-1 medications, such as Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy and Zepbound,…