Hospital Administration

Dive Brief: A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital went live with a new Cerner EHR platform over the weekend in a major step for the agency’s massive and embattled health IT modernization program. The new EHR is up and running at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, along with the center’s four

Brief Intermountain Healthcare Published Oct. 26, 2020 Dive Brief: Intermountain Healthcare and South Dakota-based Sanford Health announced Monday that the two had signed a letter of intent to merge.   Together the two will operate 70 hospitals — many of which will be located in rural communities across the country — and 435 clinics and insure

Months into a crisis that highlighted flaws in the global supply chain, concerns around personal protective equipment still linger for healthcare providers. Thankfully, the pain today isn’t as acute. Hospitals are in a much better position now than at the beginning of this year. They’ve sourced through new channels, begun stockpiling efforts and used newly

Dive Brief: Hospitalizations for several medical conditions at a major New York City-area hospital system plunged after the COVID-19 pandemic began, a new research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine by researchers at New York University and the University of Michigan medical schools finds. And even amid a recent rebound, admissions still remain well below

When the coronavirus pandemic first broke out in the U.S., “flattening the curve” became the mantra for helping support hospitals and save beds for patients who most needed them. Some hospitals even wrapped up parts of construction early to make more room for COVID-19 patients. Construction Dive has tracked some of the largest medical center

Dive Brief: The American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and other healthcare-related trade groups have asked Congressional leaders to continue the suspension of the Medicare “sequester” well into next year. The sequester was part of a 2012 deal to avoid hitting the federal debt ceiling. It was suspended under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic

Dive Brief: HHS is amending a guidance change it made in September that received industry pushback for jeopardizing whether some hospitals could keep and use some of the nearly $175 billion in relief funds meant to buoy providers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals had warned the formula change could result in devastating effects for providers

Dive Brief: Private-equity backed Envision Healthcare and Cigna have reached a deal to retain the physician services group in the insurer’s network in Florida.  Envision has a network of more than 6,000 clinicians including anesthesia, emergency medicine, radiology, neonatology, surgical and office-based healthcare in the state, the company said Wednesday. The multi-year agreement ensures that

Dive Brief: Spiking COVID-19 caseloads in many of its markets, along with higher operating expenses and lower admissions across the board drove Tenet to a net loss from operations of $197 million in the third quarter. That’s slightly better than losses of $227 million the same time last year. But “the third quarter of 2020

Dive Brief: Health systems rapidly scaled up their telehealth, artificial intelligence and revenue cycle programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, according a report from the Nokia-GE Healthcare-UPMC-backed Center for Connected Medicine and Klas Research. But their speedy implementation magnified opportunities for improvement many want to address in the coming year. The survey of 117 executives representing

As health systems are set to start reporting their third quarter earnings results this week, new research highlights hospitals’ ongoing fears about financial viability, patient volumes and supply stocks. That’s as new hotspots in the Midwest report rising COVID-19 case loads and hospitals prepare for the pandemic to collide with flu season, potentially causing stress

As the nation heads further into flu season, it’s unclear whether more shutdowns are likely as people are driven indoors, risking worse spread of the novel coronavirus at a time hospitals are already strained by the flu. The decision to shut down businesses and gatherings earlier this year may have been a prudent public health

Dive Brief: Nonprofit health system CommonSpirit will start offering behavioral health in the primary care setting through a partnership with virtual care provider Concert Health, Lloyd Dean, chief executive of the Chicago-based organization, announced Wednesday at the HLTH conference. Dean also teased an expanded partnership between CommonSpirit, the largest U.S. nonprofit health system by revenue,

Providers are urging HHS to reverse course on a reporting change required for them to use billions in federal COVID-19 relief funds, fearing it could force some providers to return the cash. At issue is a change issued in September to the formula required for providers to account for lost revenue. But HHS has already