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Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare will change the name of Intermountain Dixie Regional Medical Center to Intermountain St. George Regional Hospital, effective Jan. 1, the health system announced July 16.

Health systems like the Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic are taking on adviser roles with businesses that want medical experts to inform their COVID-19 reopening plans. But what pressures and dilemmas do these types of partnerships present for health systems? 

UnitedHealth Group's Optum is partnering with Boulder (Colo.) Community Health to help the system remain independent and improve care for patients in the Boulder area, the organizations announced July 14. 

Amazon plans to launch 20 health centers in five cities to provide primary care to employees.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health recently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The for-profit hospital operator's new CEO says the company is now set up for growth, according to the Nashville Business Journal. 

Cognitive dissonance, or having conflicting attitudes, beliefs and behaviors, is affecting how people respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Walmart, which is pushing deeper into the healthcare arena, is a "sleeping giant to watch" in the industry, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a note to clients, reports Bloomberg. 

The COVID-19 pandemic shut down elective and nonurgent procedures across the country, as hospitals raced to increase capacity for coronavirus patients and stay-at-home orders were implemented. As a result, hospitals had to make strategic pivots to their surgical services. One…

The CEO of Sky Lakes Medical Center, a rural hospital in Klamath Falls, Ore., sees little way around consolidation for some rural hospitals that have been pushed to the brink by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The hospital response to the COVID-19 pandemic looks different today than it did three months ago, with many hospitals choosing not to forgo elective surgeries despite an increase in coronavirus patients, according to the Los Angeles Times.