Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare has sued the California Nurses Association, an affiliate of National Nurses United, as well as NNU, alleging the union targeted its CEO and other executives and their families with harassment and intimidation near their homes. The…
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Saratoga (N.Y.) Hospital’s pharmacy has become the first hospital-based inpatient pharmacy in the country to earn Age-Friendly Pharmacy Recognition from the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists — the result of a process that started with a much smaller question: What…
Backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, 17 researchers filed a complaint Sept. 16 against NIH, accusing the agency of infringing their First Amendment rights by allegedly rejecting funding to grants with certain words or phrases. The proposed class-action lawsuit…
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has signed and served subpoenas compelling Oracle executive chair Larry Ellison and co-CEO Mike Sicilia to testify about the company’s $27 billion VA EHR contract. The committee voted 19-0 to force the testimony after…
Here are 21 health systems that have had their credit ratings upgraded by Fitch Ratings or Moody’s Investors Service in 2026: Broward Health’s credit rating was upgraded to “A2” from “A3” by Moody’s. The upgrade reflects the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based…
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions convened Sept. 16 to consider three of President Donald Trump’s nominees for top HHS posts: Nicole Saphier, MD, for surgeon general, Chris Klomp for HHS deputy secretary, and Timothy Westlake, MD,…
The hospitals on the U.S. News & World Report pediatric Honor Roll rarely change. Neither, it turns out, do the people running their IT departments — eight of the 11 CIOs here have held their current title since at least…
Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health has restored telephone service across all of its locations as the health system continues recovering systems affected by a cybersecurity incident. The health system said in a Sept. 16 update that patients can again call physician…
Almost 90% of seven-day hospital readmissions are not preventable, according to a study published Aug. 31 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Researchers at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital reviewed 244 seven-day readmissions among 204 adult patients discharged from…
Sanford Health’s latest expansion is pushing the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based system into a new phase of growth: one that increasingly blends its deep rural footprint with a major urban presence. On Sept. 1, Sanford acquired North Memorial Health, a two-hospital…