Drug shortages in the U.S. continue to plague hospitals, pharmacies and patients, even as new cases fell to a 20-year low in 2025. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ most recent year-end report on drug shortages found that lower numbers…
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AdventHealth Sebring (Fla.) broke ground Jan. 21 on a $130 million medical tower to help patients receive care closer to home. The 100,000-square-foot tower will comprise cardiovascular operating rooms, a cardiovascular lab, an advanced outpatient cardiac catheterization lab, new CT…
UT Health San Antonio deployed an AI agent for a recent compliance shift, saving up to $80,000 annually. The organization created the tool to meet Joint Commission certification requirements as it converted its ambulatory clinics to hospital outpatient departments in…
Sixty-three healthcare providers across the U.S. are urging stronger oversight and transparency in national health data exchange frameworks, warning that current safeguards are inadequate to protect patient privacy. In a Jan. 22 letter to Mariann Yeager, CEO of The Sequoia…
Marysville, Ohio-based Memorial Health has named Laura Lay senior director of revenue cycle, according to a Jan. 23 post on the health system’s LinkedIn page. Ms. Lay joins Memorial Health from Norwalk, Ohio-based Fisher-Titus Medical Center, where she served as…
Seanna-Kaye Denham Wilks, PhD, has been appointed chief operations officer of NYC Health + Hospitals/McKinney, a 320-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation center in New York City, effective Jan. 5. Dr. Denham Wilks brings nearly 20 years of healthcare leadership experience…
Orthopedic medtech company Zimmer Biomet is laying off employees at numerous locations, according to a Jan. 23 report from CBS affiliate WSBT. Most of the layoffs are outside of the company’s headquarters in Warsaw, Ind., the report said. Zimmer Biomet…
For years, the primary conversation around workforce compliance was simple: “Don’t get fined.” But if you are working in healthcare Human Resources (HR) or operations today, you know the reality is much more complex. To understand this shift, Propelus®, a…
Community Health Systems plans to sell an Alabama hospital for $450 million and CommonSpirit is in talks to sell more North Dakota hospitals to Altru. Here are four hospital M&A moves that Becker’s reported during the week of Jan. 19: …
Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health plans to open four new small-format emergency hospitals across North Texas over the next two years as part of a broader strategy to expand access to care in underserved areas. The new facilities —…