So far in 2026, Becker’s has reported on 14 health systems that announced, advanced or finalized hospital projects worth $1 billion or more. Seven of the projects involve new hospitals or patient towers located in the South, including Texas, Georgia,…
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Dougal Hewitt was named chief sponsorship officer of Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health, according to a Nov. 6 news release shared with Becker’s. Mr. Hewitt joins the system from Renton, Wash.-based Providence, where he most recently served as chief mission…
Port Angeles, Wash.-based Olympic Medical Center is considering converting to a smaller critical access hospital, according to a report from Radio Pacific. The potential designation could increase Medicare reimbursement rates, but it would limit the hospital to 25 beds. Olympic…
More hospitals are missing payroll in 2026 than in 2025, and more hospital leaders are warning that they may not be able to pay staff, according to Becker’s coverage over the last three years. So far in 2026, Becker’s has…
As hospitals across Los Angeles County closed psychiatric beds over the past decade, the unmet need concentrated in fewer and fewer places. UCLA Health became one of them. By the time Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health and CEO of…
Nursing students are adopting AI well ahead of the programs training them, leaving faculty to set rules for behavior that is already embedded in how students study, according to a recent Wolters Kluwer survey. Adoption is established but uneven across…
Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System has entered the Medicare Advantage market with its new health plan, a move more than a decade in the making that runs against a tide of health system-owned plan closures across the country. MultiCare Health…
The attorneys general of Oregon, Minnesota, New Mexico and Washington are suing HHS and CMS, arguing the federal government cannot pull existing Medicaid funding from states that don’t adopt the Medicaid work requirement in HR 1. The lawsuit, filed Nov.…
CMS finalized its 2027 outpatient and ASC payment rule Nov. 4, cutting payment for 340B-acquired drugs, expanded site-neutral payments to imaging and continuing to phase out the inpatient-only list. Hospital groups were divided on the rule, with reactions ranging from…
Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health recorded an operating loss of $7.1 million (-0.8% operating margin) during the second quarter of fiscal 2027, which ended Sept. 30, compared to an operating loss of $28 million (-3.5% margin) during the same quarter last…