St. Louis-based Ascension is on track to reduce avoidable emergency department visits by 5% within just two years across most of the markets it operates in across 19 states. Behind this progress is a ...

Faced with a $12 billion budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed substantial cuts to healthcare initiatives in a revised budget plan. The May Revision, ...

It’s been a big week of CFO leadership changes across major U.S. health systems. Here are three health system CFO moves that Becker’s has reported on since May 12: 1. Jonathan Ma was named permanent ...

Members of Service Employees International Union1199 New England began an open-ended strike May 15 at Care New England’s Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I. Five things to know: 1. The strike involves ...

Siemens Healthineers will relocate Varian manufacturing operations from Baja, Mexico, to Palo Alto, Calif. Varian produces radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy and brachytherapy systems and ...

Epic has launched a new educational initiative to improve EHR usability and satisfaction among nurses. The new program, called Nursing SmartUser classes, debuted in May during National Nurses Week. It ...

In a statement submitted to the Senate Finance Committee on May 14, the American Hospital Association emphasized the need to strengthen domestic medical supply chains and reduce vulnerabilities tied ...

A total of 339 hospitals in the U.S. have a central line associated bloodstream infection rate of zero, as based on the healthcare-associated infections dataset from CMS. The Healthcare-Associated ...

Seleem Choudhury, DNP, RN, has been appointed president and CEO of UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks in Glendale Heights, Ill., effective June 15. Dr. Choudhury brings two decades of experience ...

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health reported an operating loss of $85 million (-0.9% operating margin) in the third quarter of 2025, compared to an operating loss of $365 million (-3.9% margin) during ...

Baltimore-based University of Maryland School of Medicine has appointed Tarek Hanna, MD, as chief of the diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine clinical service.  Dr. Hanna will also serve as chair ...

Healthcare Organizations Already Accepted into Program as Holiday Weekend Data Breach Risks Escalate TORRANCE, Calif., May 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Celerium today announced the launch of its Data ...