Norristown, Pa.-based Suburban Community Hospital, part of Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare, will transition from an acute care facility to a behavioral health campus on July 1. The transitions will affect 109 employees, according to a Pennsylvania WARN notice. However, around…
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Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has opened a new cancer center as a care partner of New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Through the care partnership, physicians at the Hartford HealthCare Fairfield Cancer Center will collaborate and consult with experts…
Against a backdrop of rural and safety net hospital closures all over the nation, Congress is actively considering measures which will likely accelerate these closures, leaving communities without their hospitals and state taxpayers on the hook. In advocating for these…
CIOs are strategizing how to transform their businesses while harnessing the power of emerging technologies like AI, CIO’s State of the CIO 2025 report found. Here are eight things to know from the May 5 report that surveyed 906 IT…
Nearly 1 in 10 infants were admitted to a neonatal ICU in 2023 — a 13% increase since 2016, according to CDC data. National birth certificate data on NICU admissions have been available since 2016, the report said. The percentage…
The Virginia Board of Nursing has suspended the license of a 26-year-old nurse accused of abusing and maliciously wounding patients for years in a hospital’s neonatal ICU, according to a May 2 order of suspension. In late 2024, HCA Healthcare’s…
Galveston-based University of Texas Medical Branch has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft to enhance its AI and cloud capabilities. An initial project will move the four-hospital system’s Epic EHR to Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The deal will also allow University…
Hospital executives across the country are sounding the alarm: rising costs, worsening workforce shortages, financial headwinds, and policy instability are converging to threaten the foundation of care delivery. The traditional models — built for a different era — are increasingly…