Freight and IT are among the cost pressures proving hardest for hospitals to absorb this year, according to supply chain leaders. The expenses don’t always command the same attention as product pricing, but leaders say they are increasingly eating into…
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HCA Florida Healthcare — part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare — and the city of Cape Coral (Florida) have announced plans to build a new full-service hospital in the city. Four things to know: 1. The project will convert the…
A total of 348 healthcare organizations landed on Forbes‘ list of America’s Best Employers by State, published Aug. 13. The eighth annual list was created by Forbes and market research firm Statista, which surveyed more than 245,000 employees who work…
A single-payer universal healthcare system would reduce U.S. national health expenditures by more than $1 trillion and avert 114,000 deaths annually, according to a new study from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health. The study, published July 24…
Jennifer Tryon, PharmD, senior vice president and chief pharmacy officer at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health, was elected president-elect of ASHP. Dr. Tryon will begin her term immediately, according to an Aug. 6 news release. She recently completed a term on…
More than 8 in 10 employers say rising healthcare costs are cutting into wage and salary increases, according to a survey conducted by The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions. The 2026 Pulse of the Purchaser survey, released Aug. 12,…
In this episode, Kyle Kramer, FACCA, FAAMA, Chief Executive Officer of Day Kimball Health, discusses the future of rural healthcare, including value-based care, workforce development and the organization’s potential affiliation with the University of Connecticut Health System. He also shares…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health is notifying 3,298 patients that their medical information may have been exposed after an employee clicked a malicious link in a phishing email, according to a filing with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. Vanderbilt discovered…
A year of University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing research points to a consistent finding: the staffing numbers hospitals track most closely to predict patient safety are less reliable than nurses’ own read. Here is what Penn Nursing’s recent work…
U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner, R-Wash., has sent a letter to VA Secretary Doug Collins asking why the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has not implemented several Office of Inspector General recommendations on its EHR modernization program. The open recommendations, issued…