A Republican representative from Florida has introduced legislation that would eliminate the federal H-1B visa program, which allows employers to hire highly skilled foreign professionals through temporary work visas. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., introduced the Ending Exploitative Imported Labor Exemptions,…
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Fifty percent of executives say staff shortages have moderately or significantly reduced capacity to serve patients, a Covista report found. The healthcare infrastructure company polled 167 healthcare executives and 1,347 healthcare clinicians across disciplines and geographies between Nov. 4 and…
As financial pressure mounts across rural healthcare, revenue cycle management companies are rapidly expanding offerings aimed specifically at small, independent and community hospitals. The shift has been accelerated by staffing shortages, payer complexity and a new wave of federal rural…
Frey Medical Management, a rural hospital transformation company, is the new owner of Luverne, Ala.-based Crenshaw Community Hospital, according to a Jan. 31 post on the hospital’s Facebook page. The 25-bed hospital comprises inpatient, outpatient, medical and surgical care and…
As rural hospitals face the brunt of workforce shortages, their CEOs are taking a more proactive — and creative — approach to recruitment and retention. Recruitment has become a greater strategic focus for Rozanna Penney, CRNA, president and CEO of…
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Congress must make telehealth authority permanent to contain healthcare costs Dr. Gallagher is a cardiologist and founder and chief strategy officer at Access TeleCare The temporary federal funding package enacted in November that ended the federal government shutdown also re-started…
As rural hospitals across the nation continue to face mounting financial challenges and closures, East Adams Rural Healthcare’s Ritzville (Wash.) Hospital is emerging as a success story through aggressive operational and financial changes, with hopes to become the state’s first…
As states finalize plans to administer billions of dollars through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program, rural hospital leaders are beginning to articulate what they hope the funds will enable, from shoring up fragile service lines to building long-term infrastructure…
Andy Zukowski, CFO of Greenville, N.C.-based ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, is tackling healthcare industry uncertainties head on with his finance team as a new year dawns. North Carolina is facing a budget…
In recent years, a swell of states has adopted laws to lessen the requirements for foreign-trained physicians to join the U.S. workforce. The laws aim to combat the nation’s growing physician shortage, which is becoming more urgent as patient acuity…