Clinical pharmacists at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett (Wash.) voted July 28 to join The Pharmacy Guild/IAM, affiliated with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, according to a union news release shared with Becker’s. The bargaining unit includes…
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Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare posted net revenues of $20.2 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up from $18.6 billion posted over the same period last year. HCA said its managed care and insurer revenue took a hit in the…
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Rural healthcare leaders are turning resource limits into a sharper lens for technology investment. As federal initiatives like the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program infuse rural health systems with new capital, the organizations seeing the most impact are not…
Ascension has identified four critical factors in mid-career nurse burnout that are often overlooked. Mid-career nurses, defined as those with five to 15 years of experience, are now the most burned-out group, a finding that comes as no surprise to…
Physicians on RVU-based compensation plans often have no way of knowing whether the rate they are being paid is fair, and according to one gastroenterologist, that is often by design. The structural disconnect of wRVUs is well documented. Provider productivity,…
Jennifer Eslinger will become president and CEO of Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health on Sept. 21, marking the first permanent CEO appointment since Health Assurance Transformation Co. acquired the system and converted it to a for-profit organization. She told Becker’s she…
NewYork-Presbyterian has adopted Signal 1’s AI Management System (AIMS) to govern and monitor artificial intelligence tools deployed across the New York City-based health system. The platform will oversee AI technologies ranging from cancer and structural heart disease detection tools to…
AstraZeneca has held talks with Bristol Myers Squibb about a potential merger that would create one of the world’s largest drugmakers with a combined market value of nearly $400 billion, according to an Aug. 2 report from Financial Times. The…
For a growing number of health systems, Epic optimization is becoming as consequential as the go-live itself. Epic is continuing to roll out new tools for its customer base in 2026, part of the company’s push to expand the role…
Saint Joseph Health’s hospitals and other facilities in Kentucky have adopted the CommonSpirit Health name, according to a July 29 Facebook post from CommonSpirit — Kentucky. The Lexington, Ky.-based system is now operating under the CommonSpirit name across its Kentucky…