As Congress negotiates reimbursement rates, Rick Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, is urging lawmakers to halt any further payment cuts that could compromise patient care and hospital services nationwide. 

Financial strains are pushing healthcare shift workers to take on side gigs. What kinds of strains is that putting on the workforce?

The deal aims to resolve concerns over the company's breathing device division after complaints and a controversial recall brought the attention of government watchdogs.
 

Members of C-suites around the world are making room for a new teammate: the CAIO. In healthcare, some organizations are hiring for the even more specialized position of CHAIO, for chief health AI officer.

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.”