Only 61 hospitals earned five-star ratings for both overall hospital quality and patient experience. Becker’s compared CMS’ Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, which captures patients’ experiences during a recent hospital stay, with the agency’s Overall Hospital…
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Ahead of anticipated cuts and headwinds from HR 1 in 2027, health systems reported a wide range of financial performance in the second quarter of 2026. Tenet Healthcare led the systems with a 26.7% operating margin on $5.6 billion in…
Most health system continuity plans were built for a different disaster — severe weather, mass-casualty events, scheduled maintenance. Those are forecastable or finite. A cyber event is neither. It arrives without warning, often starts at a vendor you can’t see,…
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In recognition of National Assisted Living Week, from Sept. 14-19, the National Center for Assisted Living released statistics on the current state of the industry in a Sept. 13 news release shared with Becker’s. Here is what to know. 1.…
Health system CHROs and other HR leaders are navigating one of the most complex industry environments in years while also preparing their organizations for technology and workforce changes still ahead. For some, that has expanded the job beyond traditional HR…
For health system IT leaders, deciding whether to fire a vendor rarely comes down to reading a service-level agreement dashboard. It comes down to a harder question: whether the relationship, as it stands today, is one they would enter into…
Value-based care has entered the mainstream. The latest national measurement from AHIP found that nearly 45% of U.S. healthcare payments flowed through models holding providers accountable for quality and cost in 2024—nearly twice the share reported a decade earlier. Yet…
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In this episode, Sri Adusumalli, Vice President & Chief Health Information Officer, Penn Medicine, discusses using AI to improve access, simplify clinical workflows and transform care delivery. He also shares lessons from Penn Medicine’s internally developed Chart Hero generative AI…
In this episode, Morgan Lorio, MD, FACS, Orthopaedic Spine and Hand Surgeon, discusses healthcare economics, physician reimbursement, administrative costs and his concept of clinical macroeconomics, which examines how financial decisions ultimately affect patient care and clinical value.
In this episode, Arun Kumar, MD, Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at MU Health Care, and Amy Begemann, Senior Director of Cardiovascular, Neuroscience and Ancillary Services, join the podcast to discuss their certification journey and the process behind…