The John Hopkins Howard County Medical Center Foundation launched a new campaign to raise $3 million to expand its behavioral health unit in Columbia, Md.  ..read more

Physicians surveyed by McKinsey shared insights on the workforce shortage, including changes that could be made to encourage them to remain with their current healthcare organization ..read more

Revenue cycle automation platform Candid Health raised $29 million in Series B funding.  ..read more

UTHealth Houston is entering into a partnership with OpenAI, the organization that developed ChatGPT ..read more

The rising cost of care, growing Medicare Advantage pain points, and frustrations over not receiving appropriate or timely payments from commercial insurers are key factors driving health systems to take a tougher stance in contract renewal negotiations ..read more

University of Illinois Chicago's pharmacy school was gifted a $36 million endowment gift from the estate of late Chicago pharmacy owners Herbert and Carol Retzky, the Chicago Tribune reported Sept. 13.  ..read more

McLaren Bay Region, a 415-bed hospital in Bay City, Mich., is consolidating services and employees, citing "transformational changes affecting the global healthcare industry ..read more

In 2024, Florida hospitals reported lower nurse vacancy and turnover rates than the national average, according to a report from the Florida Hospital Association.  ..read more

The hospital workforce is critical to the care process and is most often the largest expense on a hospital or health system's balance sheet. Even before the pandemic, labor expenses — which include costs associated with recruitment and retention, employee benefits and incentives — accounted for more than 50 percent of hospitals' total expenses, according to the American Hospital Association.  ..read more

At the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Sept. 11, Rep. Morgan Griffith, chair of the subcommittee, called the United Network for Organ Sharing's 38-year operation of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network a "monopoly ..read more