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…
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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…
Rockledge, Fla.-based Health First is laying off 214 employees amid program cuts, including ending its hospital-at-home program. The total positions cut represent about 2% of Health First’s 10,350-employee workforce, according to a Sept. 16 news release shared with Becker’s. The…
OpenAI has disclosed six instances of unexpected or concerning artificial intelligence model behavior as part of a new framework for tracking, investigating and publicly reporting model misalignment. The company outlined the framework in a Sept. 16 post, saying it is…
Holly Shelden was named CEO of Colfax, Wash.-based Whitman Hospital & Medical Clinics, according to a Sept. 17 news release shared with Becker’s. Ms. Shelden succeeds interim CEO Hank Hanigan, who previously led the hospital for more than 11 years…
Twelve independent Arkansas pharmacies have sued Express Scripts, alleging the PBM reimbursed them below the minimum required under Arkansas law tens of thousands of times. The lawsuit was filed Sept. 15 in St. Louis County Circuit Court. The pharmacies allege…
Nearly three weeks after the FDA approved updated COVID-19 vaccines, about half of U.S. children still cannot access them through a federal program because HHS has not decided whether to distribute the shots through the Vaccines for Children program, according…
Lebanon, Ind.-based Witham Health Services signed an affiliation agreement Sept. 16 with Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health to join the system, according to a news release. The news comes after the parties signed a nonbinding letter of intent in mid-April. …
The CDC updated its Viral Respiratory Infections guidance Sept. 11 and changed recommendations for managing healthcare personnel who are exposed to or infected with common respiratory viruses. The recommendations apply to respiratory viruses such as COVID-19, influenza, RSV, parainfluenza, rhinovirus,…
When Providence announced it was shutting down its health plan earlier this year after a $102 million loss in 2025, it joined a growing list of health systems stepping back from the insurance business. Carle Health’s Health Alliance, Michigan Medicine’s…