Health systems are asking nurse managers to oversee 24/7 units while balancing staffing, budgets, quality, length-of-stay goals and the needs of dozens of employees. Some are now confronting another question: How do they persuade nurses to want the job? At…
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Effective Feb. 1, the National Council Licensure Examination will have a $350 registration fee for test-takers in the U.S., an increase from the current $200 price. “This is the first adjustment to the NCLEX registration fee since 2000,” the National…
As regional health systems prepare to transition patient panels into the new CMS ACCESS model, hospital executives are discovering a painful operational reality: you cannot execute a modern population health contract on an antiquated fee-for-service EHR chassis. When health systems…
Just as other healthcare challenges have evolved in the past two decades, so too have those related to security. “The big thing when you’re considering how healthcare security has changed is that it’s moved beyond traditional access control and asset…
Complying with the NIH’s public access policy could add as much as $104 million a year in article processing fees for NIH-funded researchers, according to a modeling study published Aug. 24 in JAMA Internal Medicine. The NIH updated its Public…
Sayre, Pa.-based Guthrie Clinic reported a $35.9 million operating loss (-1.8% margin) for the fiscal year ended June 30, improving from a $45.3 million operating loss (-2.4% margin) in the prior fiscal year. The health system reported $2 billion in…
U.S. News & World Report rankings still shape how physicians refer, how patients choose and how health systems are seen. Yet many organizations treat reputation as a seasonal push rather than a year-round discipline. This whitepaper lays out how marketing…
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Epic doesn’t just want to sell health systems software anymore — it wants to staff their IT departments, too. That’s the idea behind Epic Rangers, a new long-term staffing program the EHR giant unveiled at last week’s Users Group Meeting.…
Pennsylvania health officials have confirmed two measles-associated deaths. The individuals were unvaccinated. The deaths are the first measles-related fatalities in Pennsylvania in 35 years, the commonwealth’s health department said Aug. 25. They are also the first two U.S. measles deaths…
Dan Miller was appointed president of HCA Healthcare’s East Florida Division, according to an Aug. 25 news release shared with Becker’s. He succeeds Charles Gressle, who becomes president of the company’s new Ambulatory Operations Group effective Sept. 1. Mr. Miller…