As health systems continue to grapple with financial pressures from rising labor and supply costs and reimbursement challenges, days cash on hand remains an important measure of financial stability. Here are the days cash on hand at 55 health systems…
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U.S. hospitals are showing early signs of growth, but the path forward remains complicated, according to Strata’s Monthly Healthcare Industry Financial Benchmarks. “The nation’s hospitals and health systems saw incremental improvements to close the first quarter, but we have yet…
Emergency departments have become the default front door to the health system—but they were never designed to absorb the full weight of today’s demand. Health systems continue to respond in familiar ways: adding beds, expanding facilities, and pushing for incremental…
San Antonio-based Methodist Healthcare broke ground April 30 on a freestanding emergency room in San Antonio, bringing the system’s total number of freestanding ERs to 11. Methodist ER Medina Valley will serve as an extension of Methodist Hospital Westover Hills…
Michigan Medicine is notifying about 551 patients of a privacy incident involving unauthorized access to medical information through a national health information exchange after its EHR vendor Epic flagged unusual activity. The Ann Arbor-based academic medical center said it was…
Union Community Care, a nonprofit health system that operates across Lancaster, Lebanon and Chester counties in Pennsylvania, has signed a prime vendor agreement with Medline. The agreement gives Union Community Care access to Medline’s portfolio of medical-surgical products, including lab…
Six nursing and physician associate associations said they are “profoundly dismayed” and “deeply concerned” by the Education Department’s ruling to cap student loans and classify nursing and PA degrees as graduate, instead of professional degrees. On April 30, the Education…
Aetna President Steve Nelson has been appointed to the board of directors for data analytics company Health Catalyst. Mr. Nelson’s appointment, effective May 1, comes after Ben Albert was named CEO and Justin Spencer was named board chairman earlier this…
Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers have found GLP-1 drugs were associated with fewer peptic ulcer diagnoses among patients with Type 2 diabetes. The study, published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, analyzed EHR data from more than 66,000 adults…
The American Medical Association has outlined a policy framework to address AI-generated deepfakes impersonating physicians. According to an April 29 press release shared with Becker’s, the framework, developed by the AMA Center for Digital Health and AI, establishes protections for…