Hospital Administration

Dive Brief: A survey of 200 U.S. surgeons by UBS analysts suggests orthopaedic procedure volumes will stay below 2019 levels throughout this year. The doctors polled online in February and March expect volumes to improve throughout the year but still be down 2% on the comparable period of 2019 in the fourth quarter. Volumes will

Dive Brief: The number of transactions involving hospitals and healthcare systems was down in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2020, but the size of consummated transactions was significantly larger, according to a new report from Kaufman Hall. Altogether, there were 13 transactions that took place during the quarter,

Dive Brief: Concierge primary care startup Tia is partnering with nonprofit health system CommonSpirit to build a series of women’s health clinics connecting inpatient and outpatient care. The Tia-branded clinics will provide multiple services with the goal of creating a one-stop shop for women’s health, including primary and gynecological care. Four-year-old Tia will provide the

Dive Brief: More than 60% of frontline healthcare workers say the pandemic has negatively impacted their mental health, according to a national survey published Tuesday from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Washington Post. About 13% of those surveyed reported accessing mental health services or medications while 18% said they needed such services but didn’t get

Dive Brief: While urgent care centers do keep some lower-acuity patients from visiting costly emergency departments, their presence is not associated with a drop in total healthcare costs, according to a report in Health Affairs. Using commercial claims and enrollment data from 2008 to 2019, researchers found an increase of 1,000 lower-acuity urgent care visits resulted in

Dive Brief: New research quantifying how charitable hospitals in different ownership categories are shows that, in aggregate, nonprofit hospitals spent $2.30 of every $100 in total expenses on charity care, which was less than government ($4.10) and for-profit hospitals ($3.80). The Health Affairs study published Monday examines the financial data more than 4,600 hospitals submitted

Dive Brief: FDA said Thursday it is investigating more than 450 reports of contamination and patient infection linked to reprocessed urological endoscopes over the past four years, including three deaths that occurred outside the United States. Devices from Olympus and Karl Storz were cited in medical device adverse event reports (MDRs) that identified the manufacturers.

Dive Brief: CtW Investment Group is calling on HCA Healthcare shareholders to vote against the current chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee, Charles Holliday Jr., for failing to properly oversee emergency room admissions practices.  The group alleges in its Thursday letter to shareholders that HCA’s ER admissions for Medicare members are excessive and well above the

Dive Brief: Black adults are significantly more likely to encounter discrimination when receiving healthcare than White patients, according to a new study by the Urban Institute underwritten by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. While 10.6% of Black adults said they had experienced some form of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, disability, gender, sexual orientation or

The pandemic weighed heavily on the financial performance of not-for-profit hospitals in 2020, but some of the larger health systems remained profitable despite the upheaval — in large part thanks to substantial federal funding earmarked to prop up providers during the global health crisis.  Industry observers have been closely watching to see how health systems

Dive Brief: Wall Street analysts are predicting recovery of elective surgery volumes after analyzing a consumer sentiment survey and hospital tracking data, but the forecasts come amid a stark warning from the head of the CDC that rising COVID-19 metrics jeopardizes progress. Results from two surveys from Needham and Jefferies suggest people are visiting hospitals

Dive Brief: A new report from Moody’s Investors Service concluded that non-profit and public hospital margins have declined but liquidity has improved during the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily due to advanced Medicare payments under the relief provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. However, overall cash flow slumped. The acuity of inpatients also

About 800 nurses at a Tenet hospital are on the third week of a strike that’s shaping up to be one of the longest among healthcare workers in recent years. At the hospital chain’s St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, nurses represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association have been on strike since March 8 following

Dive Brief: The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of the nation’s hospitals beleaguered and unable to juggle the needs of patients suffering from the coronavirus versus those with other healthcare issues, according to a report issued Wednesday by the HHS Office of the Inspector General. OIG staffers polled administrators from 320 hospitals in 45 states,