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As the White House works to steer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. toward politically safer topics ahead of 2026 midterm elections, the HHS secretary said April 8 he plans to launch a health podcast. Citing concerns about unpopular anti-vaccine rhetoric, the…
While average hospital margins ticked up from 1% in January to 1.9% in February, they are still well below 3%-plus margins hospitals reported in the second half of 2025, according to Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report, released April 9.…
A Florida woman who treated more than 4,000 hospital patients without an advanced nurse tech license license was sentenced April 7 to five years probation. In January 2025, Flagler County Sheriff’s Office and AdventHealth Palm Coast (Fla.) Parkway began an…
Lancaster, Ohio-based Fairfield Medical Center’s credit rating was downgraded to “B1” from “Ba3” by Moody’s. The downgrade reflects the hospital’s challenging financial performance and headwinds to material improvement, Moody’s said in its April 8 report. Fairfield Medical has a negative…
The Health Resources and Services Administration projects the U.S. supply of licensed practical nurses to be short by 30% by 2038. While hospitals are not the primary employer of LPNs, many have reintroduced this workforce into their ranks in recent…
For many health systems, patients and revenue are lost in the space between a provider’s recommendation and a completed patient visit. Referral leakage and fragmented workflows continue to erode both patient outcomes and organizational performance. During a recent conversation hosted…
Marc Miller, president and CEO of King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, was paid 283 times what the median system employee received in 2025, according to a proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Miller’s total…
Hospital transactions continued an upward swing in the first quarter of 2026, according to Kaufman Hall’s M&A quarterly activity report released April 9. The 22 announced transactions were a five-year high for first quarters and the report noted “signs of…
Lauren Faison-Clark, CEO of Doctors’ Memorial Hospital in Perry, Fla., will leave her role at the end of May to assume a leadership position with South Bend, Ind.-based Beacon Health System. Ms. Faison-Clark has served as CEO of the hospital…