Following its 2018 merger, Bon Secours Mercy Health faced a fragmented patient monitoring environment, with inconsistent technologies, networks and clinical workflows across facilities. Through a 10-year collaboration with Philips, the health system is building a standardized enterprise monitoring platform across…
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The Trump administration is preparing to narrow federal rules requiring employers to accommodate workers’ pregnancy-related conditions, The New York Times reported Nov. 2, citing seven people familiar with the plans. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act passed with bipartisan support in…
In this episode, Bryan Croft, Executive Vice President of Hospital Operations and Chief Operating Officer at Cedars-Sinai Health System, joins the podcast to discuss rethinking ambulatory strategy and addressing healthcare affordability through considerations such as the 340B program. He also…
While former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill is often credited with saying, “All politics is local,” for Damond Boatwright, CEO of Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System, the saying matters four times as much when it comes to healthcare.…
When Albert Wright Jr., PharmD, became CEO of Morgantown-based WVU Medicine in 2014, the system had five hospitals. It now has 31 across four states, and its largest deal yet just took it into Pittsburgh’s suburbs. That reach is deliberate,…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has completed its acquisition of Northern Regional Hospital, a 133-bed hospital in Mount Airy, N.C. The deal marks the system’s second rural hospital acquisition in northwest North Carolina in five months. The Surry County (N.C.) Board…
Payer friction is often treated as a series of isolated challenges: an eligibility issue, a prior authorization delay, a documentation gap or a denial to resolve. But across a fragmented revenue cycle, those challenges rarely stay contained. As friction moves…
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Corvallis, Ore.-based Samaritan Health Services joined Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System Nov. 1, completing an affiliation announced in 2025. As part of the agreement, MultiCare has committed to investing $700 million over 10 years to expand access to care, recruit…
Amazon has spent years trying to break into healthcare, and while some bets have fizzled, the company’s footprint in the industry is still expanding. Amazon has pursued that goal through a mix of acquisitions, launches and experiments, not all of…
Lincoln, Neb.-based Bryan Health is moving a 125-year-old National Historic Landmark across its Bryan East Campus to clear space for a larger emergency department and neonatal ICU, according to an Oct. 30 news release shared with Becker’s. The Fairview mansion,…
