A number of healthcare organizations have recently closed medical departments or ended services at facilities to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or address staffing shortages. Here are 60 department closures or services that are ending or have…
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Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth expects fewer than 250 employees systemwide to be affected by its transition of several information technology services to Tech Mahindra and The HCI Group in November, or less than 1.5% of its total workforce, a spokesperson said…
Techstars and the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group selected nine startups for a healthcare accelerator focused on emerging technologies and care delivery. More than 1,200 startups applied for the 2026 Techstars Healthcare Accelerator powered by Permanente Medicine Mid-Atlantic States, according to…
Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health is moving forward with plans to close The Pavilion, a long-term care facility in its former Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center on or before Dec. 1. The closure comes after a proposed acquisition by Lake Erie…
Nearly 600 postmarket studies the FDA required drugmakers and devicemakers to complete after approving their products are behind schedule, according to a Sept. 18 KFF Health News analysis. Some are delayed by more than a decade, and roughly a third…
Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network is in the middle of an Epic EHR implementation that’s expected to do more than unify patient records — it will eliminate 88 separate software applications the health system has accumulated over years…
Healthcare access is increasingly treated as an engineering problem. Health systems across the country are building centralized referral hubs, deploying navigator workflows and redesigning the path from primary to specialty care. The bottleneck isn’t a shortage of desire to treat…