Ninety-four more hospitals earned a five-star quality rating from CMS in 2026 compared to 2025. CMS publishes its Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings annually. The ratings, updated May 13, reflect a hospital’s performance across five quality measures: mortality, safety, readmission,…
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CMS released its updated star ratings May 13, and 199 hospitals were assigned one star for overall quality. CMS assigns star ratings to hospitals in the U.S. and its territories based on 46 hospital quality measures, which are divided into…
Jeffrey Flaks, president and CEO of Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare, has spent 22 years at the system watching the industry talk itself out of change. He has seen the headwinds used as excuses, the risks of going first cited as reasons…
Janie Thompson has stepped down from her role as COO of Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kan. The hospital is part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare. “After more than seven years in hospital leadership with HCA, I’m putting healthcare…
Ashtabula, Ohio, has the highest student loan debt relative to its residents’ incomes of any U.S. city, according to a May 13 ranking from personal finance website WalletHub. Because student loan debt is less sustainable in some places than others,…
HCA Healthcare recorded the highest net income, while Tenet Healthcare posted the highest operating margin among the nation’s four largest publicly traded for-profit health systems in the first quarter of 2026. HCA, Tenet, Community Health Systems and Universal Health Services…
Orange, Calif.-based UCI Health’s academic rehabilitation hospital will open this summer. The 52-bed facility will nearly quadruple the system’s critical rehabilitation care services in the region, and will be Orange County’s first academic rehab hospital, according to a May 12…
Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer signed a bill into law May 12 that allows experienced PAs to practice without a formal on-paper agreement with physicians and formally adopts the “physician associates” title. Under the law, PAs with more than 6,000 hours…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is imposing a six-month nationwide moratorium on new Medicare enrollments for hospices and home health agencies as part of a broader effort to combat fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicare program. CMS…
For the second consecutive year, Vermont ranked as the healthiest state for older adults in the U.S., according to the United Health Foundation’s “America’s Health Rankings 2026 Senior Report.” The United Health Foundation is a nonprofit founded by UnitedHealth Group.…