The Leapfrog Group and the American College of Surgeons have established a new designation for hospitals that provide high-quality surgical care for older adults. The Recognized Leader in Geriatric Surgery designation is based on performance in the American College of…
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When two senior executives retired at St. Cloud, Minn.-based CentraCare, the system did not fill either seat. Rather than replace them directly, Chief Human Resources Officer Kim Egan and her team used the departures to reevaluate its C-suite structure. CentraCare…
A Missouri review board deemed 79% of the state’s pregnancy-related deaths from 2019 to 2023 preventable, pointing to gaps in postpartum follow-up and mental healthcare. The finding comes from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services’ Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review…
Alaska pharmacists will be able to provide a broader range of healthcare services beginning Jan. 1, 2027, under a new state law that expands their scope of practice. The law allows pharmacists to provide medication management and test and treat…
Texas, Florida and California have the most for-profit community hospitals of any state, while five states have none, according to data compiled by KFF. The data, current as of 2024, comes from the American Hospital Association’s annual survey. It reflects…
A widely used surgical risk tool — developed with federal funding and freely available online — has long been off-limits for EHR integration. That may be changing, but health system leaders say the damage from years of workflow friction has…
The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with CVS Caremark that requires the pharmacy benefit manager to change its business practices as part of the agency’s antitrust case alleging the PBM inflated insulin list prices through rebate practices. The FTC…
For most of medicine’s history, the evidence a clinician needed was scarce, scattered and difficult to retrieve at the point of care. Today, the problem has shifted. Clinicians are no longer practicing in an environment defined by too little information.…
The White House launched “Gold Eagle” on July 14, an AI-powered clearinghouse designed to accelerate detection and patching of cybersecurity vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure. The initiative pairs the Treasury Department, DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of…
Here are eight revenue cycle company mergers and acquisitions that have been announced or completed since March 17: 1. IKS Health on July 9 completed its $557 million acquisition of TruBridge, which provides revenue cycle management and EHR services for…