Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare said it still expects a $600 million to $900 million EBITDA headwind in 2026 tied to changes in the ACA exchange environment, including the expiration of enhanced subsidies. The outlook is unchanged from guidance the system…
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Pharmacy is no longer a cost center defending its budget. It is an enterprise lever, and the executives running it are being asked to behave — and be staffed — accordingly. At the 2026 CPO Summit, the chief pharmacy officers…
Epic continues to expand its footprint across health systems through new implementations, product updates and partnerships. In the past 30 days, organizations have gone live on Epic, adopted new artificial intelligence tools within the EHR, and participated in federal data-sharing…
Health systems are experiencing rising call volumes while using phone systems that weren’t designed for today’s digital expectations. AI-based technologies are changing the landscape, enabling organizations to improve the patient experience and reduce costs. During Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting in…
AI is a people-and-process story — not a tech one. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, the CIOs, CDOs, and CMIOs running Cleveland Clinic, Penn Medicine, Jefferson Health, Prisma Health, Northwell Health, Allina Health, Ochsner Health and CommonSpirit told each other…
Members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East at Dunkirk, N.Y.-based Brooks-TLC Hospital System have ratified a one-year contract extension, according to an April 23 union news release shared with Becker’s. The contract, which covers more than 160 hospital workers, expires…
Seth Karp, MD, system surgeon-in-chief and chair of the section of surgical sciences for Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health, will step down Oct. 15 to join Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as surgeon-in-chief. Dr. Karp will also serve as chair of the…
Ritzville, Wash.-based East Adams Rural Healthcare will move forward with a reset of its rural health clinic after nearly closing amid financial challenges at its Ritzville Hospital. EARH shared in February that financial difficulties would force the clinic to shut…
Hospital and health system leaders have more emergency department data in front of them than ever. However, without adjusting for patient acuity and comparing against a cohort of similar departments, much of that data can be more misleading than useful,…
In 2018, Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth set out to redefine what healthcare could look like by asking consumers a simple question: What does an ideal healthcare setting feel like? System leaders identified a similar trend in the answers. Patients wanted…