Two Massachusetts hospitals have been dealing with a network outage in recent days, causing them to divert ambulances to other facilities. Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., went on “Code Black” diversion Oct. 12 after experiencing the IT issue before restoring…
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Cleveland Clinic launched its Centers of Excellence program in 2010 with big goals of revolutionizing value-based care for large employers nationwide. The health system made a splash with its plan for direct-to-employer contracts and large national partners agreeing to send…
Stanford Medicine’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., is laying off 87 workers amid financial challenges, including reductions in federal funding. The layoffs, which affect about 1% of the 361-bed hospital’s workforce, will take effect Dec. 12, according…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $2 million federal grant to expand deployment of an AI-powered data extraction tool. HHS’ Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health extended Vanderbilt’s award for the Democratized AI-Guided Chart Abstraction Platform through…
Surgeons at Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health performed the nation’s first fully robotic living-donor liver transplant. The surgery involved a woman with rare autoimmune liver disease who received the partial liver tissue from a living donor who had donated a kidney…
Building a culture of curiosity can foster quality care, improve nurse satisfaction, enhance patient safety and build trust, according to Sue Behrens, DNP, RN, vice president and chief nursing officer of Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, and…
In this episode, Iliana A. Mora, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Sinai Chicago, joins the podcast to discuss how she balances compassionate leadership with the operational demands of running a major urban health system. She shares insights…
In this episode, Lynn Barr of Caravan Health and John Budd of ECG Management Consultants discuss the urgent challenges facing rural hospitals, the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Fund, and strategies to move beyond short-term fixes toward sustainable care models…
In this episode, Scott Becker highlights five major labor stories in healthcare, including the Kaiser Permanente strike, and more.
The federal government shutdown is entering its third week as lawmakers on Tuesday again failed to pass a funding bill. For the eighth time, the Senate failed to pass the House-approved measure to fund the government through Nov. 21, The…