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Costco has cultivated an enviable 7% annual employee turnover rate by paying more, investing in benefits and treating long-tenured hourly workers as an institutional asset. With registered nurse turnover hitting 17.6% nationally in 2025 and the cost of losing a…

The University of Southern California Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has received a $300,000 grant from the Centene Foundation and Health Net to expand services at its USC Pharmacy and Wellness Center in South Los Angeles. The funding…

The American Hospital Association has filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting HHS’ motion to dismiss AbbVie’s lawsuit challenging the agency’s longstanding definition of “patient” under the 340B Drug Pricing Program.  The brief, filed July 14, argues AbbVie is attempting to bypass…

CVS Health wants to position itself as the primary data host for the Trump administration’s push on healthcare interoperability, CEO David Joyner told Politico in a July 16 interview. Mr. Joyner, who oversees a company spanning pharmacies, primary care clinics…

Ask a health system CIO which of their peers does technology best, and most have an answer ready. Ask them to size up their own budgets against the industry, or to name the executive title healthcare could live without, and…

Drug costs are emerging as one of hospitals’ fastest-growing expense categories, outpacing labor and other nonlabor costs as organizations continue to navigate a challenging financial environment, according to Kaufman Hall’s latest “National Hospital Flash Report.” Nationally, drug expense per adjusted…

St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, owned by Tower Health and Drexel University, has signed a non-binding letter of intent to form an alliance with three other health systems to support strong pediatric care across the city. Six things…

Active U.S. drug shortages increased to 227 in the second quarter of 2026, marking the third consecutive quarterly increase, according to a new report from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.  While shortages remain well below the record 323 reported…

A cyberattack on New Jersey law firm Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis has exposed data on 12,801 patients across three health systems in the state. Greenbaum discovered unauthorized access to its systems through a compromised user account in November 2025…

The FDA has approved Merck’s Lipfendra (enlicitide), a once-daily oral therapy to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in adults with high cholesterol or heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia. The approval was supported by two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials involving 3,207 adults already taking…