So far in 2026, Becker’s has covered four hospitals that were hit with an immediate jeopardy warning. An immediate jeopardy is a rare, serious situation for healthcare facilities, as it requires immediate corrective action and carries the risk of losing…
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The Trump administration has sent warning letters to 519 hospitals nationwide citing them for failing to provide transparent pricing information, the Associated Press reported June 9. The AP exclusively received a list of hospitals that have either received warning letters…
A growing number of health systems are beginning to quantify returns on their AI investments, with some reporting more than $100 million in annual value. Boston Children’s Hospital has reclaimed about 60,000 hours from AI-enabled workflows since partnering with OpenAI…
Health systems have no shortage of successful AI pilots. Ambient documentation, revenue cycle automation, clinical decision support — individual use cases have delivered real results in individual departments. But translating those wins into organization-wide results has proven far more difficult.…
Maria Caruso has been named CFO of HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital. The hospital is part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare. Prior to her new role, Ms. Caruso served as CFO of HCA Florida St. Petersburg Hospital and HCA Florida…
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, frontier AI models the company says accelerated parts of its internal drug design work roughly tenfold, on June 9. The two models share the same underlying system — a new “Mythos-class”…
Cassandra Davis, MS, was appointed COO of Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y., effective June 15, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. Ms. Davis, who joined ECMC in 2008, most recently served as senior vice president of…
Burlington-based University of Vermont Health has eliminated 142 positions. Seventy-six are permanent position eliminations while 66 roles will be restructured with new job descriptions, the health system announced June 9. Most reductions fall outside of direct patient care, though the…
Oakland County Health Department officials confirmed a Legionnaires’ case linked to Woodward Hills Rehabilitation in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., ABC affiliate WXYZ reported June 9. A patient sample collected June 3 tested positive for Legionella. The facility collected water samples on…
The American Hospital Association is urging CMS to change its proposed long-term care hospital prospective payment system for fiscal year 2027. Nearly a quarter of long-term care hospitals closed since 2016 when the dual-rate payment system went into effect. “We…