Credit and capital | C-suite priorities | A bankruptcy contagion?

Along with the obvious hits to patient traffic and population health, the COVID-19 pandemic delivered a financial upending to U.S. healthcare. Is it over yet? 

Healthcare executives were already struggling to establish a more resilient workforce before the pandemic, and that challenge has only worsened in the years since.

Healthcare saw an alarming spike in Chapter 11 filings last year, lengthening a trajectory that started taking shape in mid-2022.

Going by criteria set and applied by Money magazine, only two of America’s 6,000 or so hospitals deserve the title “best of the best.”

A grocery-delivery giant is partnering with a commercial provider of medical house calls to bring healthy meals to patients in their homes.

Support for a nurse who was threatened online may be growing after fellow nurses spotlighted the incident on TikTok. They’re also leveraging the situation to call for greater protection against potentially violent patients.

Lobbyists for physician groups have testified against the proposal, concerned it could punish providers for not relaying meaningless findings to patients. 

The study’s authors emphasized that a person can still occasionally eat meat, fish or dairy products and still see substantial benefits—the key is to keep such foods to a minimum.