Distributors of mifepristone, an FDA-approved drug to induce an abortion, may continue shipping the medication for now, according to a May 11 order from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court initially made this order May 4 before extending it May…
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Physician productivity increased in the first quarter of 2026, but so did the cost of sustaining it. Strata’s “Monthly Healthcare Industry Financial Benchmarks” report, drawn from data across more than 135,000 physicians, found that overall work relative value units climbed…
Food insecurity as clinical risk: How health systems are scaling nutrition-integrated access
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For health systems, food insecurity is emerging as a clinical, operational and financial variable that demands a structured response. With the One Big Beautiful Bill Act reducing Medicaid eligibility and tightening Supplemental Nutrition Access Program (SNAP) access for millions of…
From Community Health Systems closing a deal that saw it exit Pennsylvania, to Prime Healthcare acquiring its 55th hospital, here are 16 hospital mergers and acquisitions completed in 2026: 1. Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare completed its acquisition of Franciscan Health…
Todd Conklin, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Care New England Health System
In this episode, Todd Conklin, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Care New England Health System, joins the podcast to discuss how AI is transforming healthcare operations and decision-making. He shares perspectives on the shift toward more continuous,…
Physician burnout costs hospitals an estimated $500,000 every time it results in a departure, according to industry estimates. Multiply that across a 60,000-person workforce, and culture is not a soft initiative but a balance sheet issue. That’s the premise behind…
Visa renewals are processing again, but health systems and international physicians still have no clear path forward. In late April, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services updated its website to indicate physicians were no longer subject to a visa processing…
Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health has named Bradley Stevens, who served the system as a nuclear medicine technologist more than 20 years ago, as vice president of ambulatory services. Mr. Stevens most recently worked at Penn Medicine’s Lancaster (Pa.) General…
The “cicada” SARS-CoV-2 variant, which earned its nickname after staying relatively dormant following its discovery in 2024, has accounted for a small proportion of COVID-19 cases since the CDC began tracking the variant. In the week ending April 11, the…
For health system leaders, the pressure to move fast on artificial intelligence has rarely felt more acute. New tools emerge weekly, vendor pipelines are full and board-level expectations are rising. But Sunil Dadlani, executive vice president, chief information and digital…