Tenet Healthcare saw the highest operating margin, and HCA Healthcare posted the highest net income among the country’s largest publicly traded for-profit health systems in the second quarter of 2026. HCA, Tenet, Community Health Systems and Universal Health Services have…
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In this episode, Nick Stavros, Chief Executive Officer, Community Medical Services, discusses the organization’s steady growth, navigating Medicaid and regulatory changes, and the opportunities AI presents for improving care and operations. He also shares his philosophy on servant leadership and…
AdventHealth structures its leadership development around a three-part framework: lead self, lead others, lead results. AdventHealth’s Audrey Gregory said the order isn’t incidental — it’s the whole argument. Most health systems build development programs aimed at the third stage and…
Health systems are fielding more requests for AI than ever, but ask their technology leaders which department is generating the loudest demand, and the answer has less to do with the function itself than with how ready that team already…
NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County has performed its first breast tumor cryoablation procedure, becoming the first hospital in the NYC Health + Hospitals system to offer the minimally invasive breast cancer treatment. The procedure gives eligible early-stage breast cancer patients…
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services recorded an operating income of $516.7 million (11.1% operating margin) during the second quarter of 2026, compared to an operating income of $500.3 million (11.7% margin) during the same period last year, according…
Ten states have not expanded Medicaid, leaving an estimated 1.2 million adults without insurance, according to a July 27 KFF analysis. The rest of the country, including the District of Columbia, has expanded Medicaid, allowing adults who make up to…
Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health broke ground July 27 on its hospital and medical office building in West Lafayette, Ind. It is an approximately $200 million project, according to a July 27 LinkedIn post from the health system. The 40-bed…
Members of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, Pa., began a five-day strike July 27, the union’s first since 2004. Six things to know: 1. The strike involves 950 workers at a 260-bed acute care…
David Cole, MD, became president of the Medical University of South Carolina in 2014, when the Charleston-based institution operated as a single-campus academic health system. Over the next 12 years, he led its expansion into an 18-hospital statewide network delivering…