When Alejandro Quiroga, MD, describes the more than $1 billion acute care tower Children’s Mercy is building in Kansas City, Mo., he frames it less as an expansion than a necessity. The tower, planned for the system’s flagship Adele Hall…
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Some of the most exceptional care in the country is delivered close to home, in the community hospitals that serve as trusted anchors for neighborhoods, towns and regions across America. Becker’s is proud to release the 2026 edition of its…
California enacted new staffing rules for psychiatric hospitals June 1, establishing minimum nurse-to-patient ratios and financial penalties for facilities that fail to comply. The emergency regulations, issued by the California Department of Public Health, were developed after a San Francisco Chronicle investigation into dysfunction,…
Health systems across the country are well past the pilot stage and deploying AI across clinical, operational and financial functions. Below are 50 examples of health systems using AI in 2026, as covered by Becker’s: Ambient AI and clinical documentation…
Health systems are navigating a moment that resists the old playbooks — with federal budget pressure, AI adoption, workforce strain and shifting reimbursement all intensifying at once. For many executive teams, the response has reached beyond strategy into something more…
At a time when healthcare executives are being asked to stretch scarce federal resources as far as possible, the 340B Drug Pricing Program is a much-appreciated lifeline. Despite the program being around for over three decades, the need for its…
Mount Nittany Health has completed its Epic go-live after choosing an uncommon path for a smaller health system: implementing the EHR independently rather than through a larger health system’s Community Connect program. The State College, Pa.-based health system went live…
Terre Haute, Ind.-based Union Health has named Joseph Scuorzo, DO, as chief medical information officer. Dr. Scuorzo is a hospitalist and medical director of Vituity. He has led quality initiatives focused on improving protocols, strengthening the lab-EHR interface and enhancing…
Eli Lilly has given some 340B hospitals five business days to begin submitting claims-level data or risk losing access to discounted drug pricing, escalating a growing dispute over transparency requirements in the federal drug discount program. In a June 1…
About $300 billion in revenue generated by rated pharmaceutical companies is expected to face generic and biosimilar competition through 2031 — a shift with direct implications for how hospitals and health systems manage their drug budgets over the next several…