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…
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Flint, Mich.-based Insight Health Systems is set to take over shuttered Chicago-based Weiss Memorial Hospital and Oak Park, Ill.-based West Suburban Medical Center. Weiss Memorial closed Aug. 8, 2025, and West Suburban shuttered June 11 after the facility’s last functional…
A denial nobody had time to appeal. A fax that never got indexed to the right encounter. An authorization pending for three weeks. Each one is revenue your organization has already earned and is not collecting. None of these is…
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Cleveland-based University Hospitals named Melissa Cohen vice president of venture development and investment at UH Ventures, the health system’s innovation and commercialization arm. In the newly created role, Ms. Cohen will oversee the design, operation and deployment of UH Ventures’…
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Health system marketers are increasingly asked to defend their budgets in the same terms as any other department: with a number attached to a specific outcome. Dona Landers, director of digital marketing at Cincinnati-based Christ Hospital Health Network, offers two…
A cyberattack on the Alabama Board of Nursing’s online licensing system has taken it offline, affecting more than 80,000 nurses, WBRC reported Sept. 16. “Our number one priority is to protect the data of our licensees,” Honor Ingels, chief policy…
St. Louis-based Ascension on Sept. 16 released consolidated statistical data alongside its fiscal 2026 financial results, comparing the twelve months ended June 30, 2026, with the same period a year earlier. The 91-hospital system closed fiscal 2026 with 79,626 fewer…
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No private equity investor intends to own a physician practice platform indefinitely. The private equity model depends on eventually returning capital to investors, traditionally through a sale to another sponsor, an initial public offering (IPO), or a strategic acquirer. Today,…