Rural health systems are contending with eroding margins, persistent workforce shortages and shrinking access as service lines close. CMS’ $50 billion Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program offers a rare chance to redesign care delivery rather than simply stabilize it —…
UC San Diego has launched the Institute for Applied Health Intelligence, a multidisciplinary initiative aimed at using AI and other digital technologies to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. The institute will bring together experts from UC San Diego Health…
Hospitals have faced a rise in swatting calls over the last decade, and some states, like Wisconsin, have seen a string of swatting calls in the last week. “Swatting” involves a person making a false report to emergency services or…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has spent 81 years building an integrated care model that consistently outperforms national benchmarks on cancer mortality, cardiovascular disease and overall premature death. For most of that history, experiencing that model meant being a Kaiser member…
Registered nurses at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s-Downtown hospital in Sioux City, Iowa, have voted to remove United Food and Commercial Workers Local 222IN as their bargaining representative. The vote was 80-71 in favor of union decertification, according to the National Labor…
Tremaine Gibson was named COO of Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, according to a July 5 news release shared with Becker’s. Mr. Gibson assumes the role after serving as vice president of…
Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, Davenport, Iowa-based Genesis Health System and Mercy Health Network have agreed to pay more than $4.64 million to resolve allegations that Genesis overbilled the federal government for its use of the Impella heart pump device. The…
Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital Health System and Haleyville, Ala.-based Lakeland Community Hospital entered into an affiliation agreement, effective July 1. The agreement is not an acquisition or purchase, according to a July 2 Huntsville Hospital Health System news release. Lakeland Community…
Tyler Williams has been named interim CEO of DeFuniak Springs, Fla.-based North Walton Doctors Hospital, according to a July 2 LinkedIn post. In his new role, Mr. Williams will lead the hospital through its next period of growth and long-term…
Epic President Sumit Rana will step down from the electronic health record company Aug. 14 after more than two decades with the organization. In an email sent to Epic employees July 3 and shared with Becker’s, Mr. Rana said he…
