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Strategic outlook for hospitals Post-COVID
Strategic planning for healthcare operations after COVID requires a couple of key components: 1) understanding the constants; and 2) adapting to the changes. The challenge is identifying what falls into each category. -
Summit Medical Group, CityMD rebrand as Summit Health
Summit Medical Group, the largest physician-owned multispecialty group in New Jersey, and CityMD, a New York City-based urgent care provider, have rebranded as Summit Health. -
How Clara Barton Hospital and Clinics' da Vinci surgery program is expanding patient services in a rural community
Robotic surgery represents an evolutionary turning point in surgical care. Robotic platforms support minimally invasive procedures associated with lower infection rates, faster recoveries, and increased patient satisfaction. These surgical programs are also enabling critical access hospitals to expand the services they provide to their communities. -
HOPD-to-ASC conversions: Key operational and business office factors to know
Conversions of provider-based entities (i.e., hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs)) to freestanding ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are on the rise. -
Hospital rebrands: 6 recent name changes
Below are six hospitals that have announced or finalized name changes since Feb. 1. -
Gawande: Mass vaccinations at stadiums, convention centers are crucial
The pace and scale of COVID-19 vaccination needed to curb the pandemic requires the use of conventional healthcare sites and high-throughput, mass vaccination events at stadiums, arenas and convention centers, Atul Gawande, MD, and colleagues write for the New England Journal of Medicine. -
Amazon expanding health centers to 5 states
Amazon is opening health centers in five states to provide primary care to its employees. -
UPMC opens COVID-19 rehab program in Italy
UPMC is opening a rehabilitation program in Italy to treat the lingering effects of COVID-19, the Pittsburgh-based health system said March 9. -
Positioning community hospitals for success as strategies begin to change
Over the past year, community hospitals were challenged with addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, while limited resources, clinician burnout and community outreach continue to be an issue. -
Former Haven CEO Dr. Atul Gawande on what went wrong for the healthcare venture
Haven, the healthcare partnership formed by Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathway, is disbanding less than three years after forming. Atul Gawande, MD, Haven's former CEO, explained why the venture wasn't set up to succeed in a discussion Feb. 26 with Robert Wachter, MD, chair of the University of California San Francisco's department of medicine. -
'Building authentic partnerships' + other strategies to lead mass vaccination events: 3 health systems weigh in
Stadiums, racetracks and more — something health systems have become increasingly familiar with as they spearhead mass COVID-19 vaccination events. They've proved a successful model to quickly get shots in arms, but what does it take to hit the ground running with an effort of such scale? -
Oak Street Health will expand to 14th state
Oak Street Health, a Chicago-based network of primary care centers for Medicare beneficiaries, plans to expand into Georgia this summer. -
Walmart may roll back its ambitious push into healthcare
More than 150 million customers visit Walmart's stores, app and website each week, and the retail giant is looking to use its reach to expand into healthcare. However, the company may be slowing the ambitious push into the healthcare it laid out in 2018, according to Insider. -
Colorado hospital, 13 clinics to rebrand
Delta (Colo.) County Memorial Hospital and 13 clinics will rebrand to Delta Health March 1, according to the Montrose Press. -
CVS to reduce office space by 30%
CVS Health plans to reduce its office space by 30 percent as part of a cost-savings initiative, Eva Boratto, the company's CFO and executive vice president, said during a Feb. 16 earnings call. -
Top business schools skip MBA rankings this year
Harvard Business School in Boston, Columbia Business School in New York City, Stanford (Calif.) Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in Philadelphia are among the top-ranking business schools that opted to skip annual MBA rankings by The Economist and the Financial Times, according to The Wall Street Journal. -
When vaccine acceptance emphasized, more people willing to get vaccinated, MIT study finds
Vaccine hesitancy isn't caused only by personal fears about safety and efficacy, but from an inaccurate belief that a person's peers aren't getting vaccinated, according to a working paper from researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Mass. -
HCA to advise Tennessee art centers, symphony on reopening live performances
Nashville, Tenn.-based TriStar Health, a part of HCA Healthcare, has entered a two-year partnership with the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and the Nashville Symphony to help the organizations implement guidelines to safely reopen after a lengthy closure due to COVID-19. -
Competing hospitals partner to fill emergency care gap in rural South Carolina after ER closure
Bon Secours St. Francis and the Medical University of South Carolina, two healthcare providers in Greenville County, S.C., are teaming up to address the lack of emergency medical services in the northern part of the county, according to a Feb. 15 Greenville News report. -
8 ways hospitals are using text messaging to navigate the pandemic
COVID-19 has forced hospitals to pull out all the stops in the fight against the coronavirus.
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