As rural hospitals across the country face mounting financial pressures and shrinking margins, the question of survival is no longer simply about keeping doors open — it’s about whether the traditional acute care model is still the right fit for…
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Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings has shared plans to lay off 125 employees at its Orange, Calif.-based Prospect Medical Group location, according to a June 20 WARN notice obtained by Becker’s. The layoffs are due to ” the sale of…
Healthcare has a daunting and growing supply and demand problem. We have a growing population in the United States and not enough physicians, nurses, allied healthcare providers and technicians. It is a very clear and simple math problem. We have…
Several Iowa businesses and health plans are suing to block a new state law regulating pharmacy benefit managers, arguing it violates federal law and the Constitution, Iowa Capital Dispatch reported June 23. The lawsuit, filed June 23 in the U.S.…
Hospital pharmacists are increasingly involved in direct patient care roles, and in 2024, more than 75% of U.S. hospitals assign pharmacists to provide care for most inpatients, according to a report published June 25. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists…
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, is calling on the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers to voluntarily abandon the current drug rebate model, or risk its elimination by the government, Bloomberg reported June 24. “There’s a possibility that we have a…
Although the number of adverse health events has been climbing in Minnesota since 2015, hospitals decreased medication errors by 44% in the last year, according to the state’s health department. In 2024, Minnesota hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers reported 624…
Knoxville, Tenn.-based Cherokee Health Systems has officially changed its name to River Valley Health. The rebrand reflects the organization’s evolution from a small mental health clinic in Morristown, Tenn., to a regional healthcare provider offering integrated services. According to a…
The American Hospital Association has launched a new ad campaign asking Congress to protect access to hospital care as lawmakers consider legislation that the group says could harm patients and communities across the country. The ad, released June 23, focuses…
A nonprofit based in Warren, Ohio, that runs Trumbull Regional Medical Center and Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital is fighting claims that it owes nearly $300,000 to Roche Diagnostics, 21 WFMJ reported June 24. Insight Foundation of Trumbull denied nearly all allegations…