Michelle Adamolekun, executive vice president and chief people and culture officer for Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health, left the organization in early August, a health system spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s. Ellen Pancoast, vice president of people operations, is serving as interim…
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Nearly $12 billion in Medicaid funding is being restored to Texas, ending months of negotiation between the state and CMS. The funding authorizes payments to hospitals, physicians, rural clinics, nursing facilities and behavioral health providers across the state, according to…
As healthcare leaders assess the forces reshaping the revenue cycle workforce, connecting with younger employees is an increasingly valuable skill set. Some of those employees, as Mayo Clinic’s Nikki Harper pointed out during Becker’s IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, are…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is seeing softer elective surgery volumes as patients lose coverage through the health insurance exchanges, with broader affordability pressures potentially contributing to the slowdown, CFO Mike Marks said Sept. 15 at the Jefferies Healthcare Services and…
A 10-day stretch of high temperatures this summer recorded about 15% of the 145,321 heat-related emergency department visits in the U.S. between Jan. 1 and Sept. 10, according to research published July 17 in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly…
Some 73% of medication reconciliation errors happen as patients move between care settings, patient safety organization ECRI said in a Sept. 16 report flagging care transitions as one of healthcare’s most dangerous moments. The figure comes from an ECRI analysis…
St. Louis-based Ascension has reached an agreement to transfer full ownership of its co-owned Arizona managed care health plan, Mercy Care, to CVS Health subsidiary Aetna, a spokesperson for Ascension confirmed with Becker’s. Ascension co-owns the plan with San Francisco-based…
East Adams Rural Healthcare, a Ritzville, Wash.-based rural emergency hospital, has selected Azalea Health as its new EHR vendor. East Adams moved off its previous enterprise EHR platform after determining the system was too complex and costly for an organization…
The U.S. cancer death rate declined 35% between 2015 and 2024, averting more than 4.8 million deaths, according to the American Association for Cancer Research’s 16th annual Cancer Progress Report, published Sept. 16. While the overall cancer death rate continues…
The proposal for New York City-based Maimonides Health to join NYC Health + Hospitals’ received unanimous approval from the New York State Public Health and Health Planning Council Sept. 17. Five things to know: 1. The transaction still needs approval…