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DECEMBER 26, 2023

Hospitals acquired by private equity saw a 25% uptick in adverse events compared with controls, according to a new study released today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. There’s ample evidence that private equity buyouts in health care drive up costs. A new study shows quality declines, too.

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JULY 8, 2024

The psychiatric hospital on the city’s east side may need to be shut down, he warned Ohio regulators. The officer, a 27-year veteran of the department, knew that sending the February letter was an unusual thing to do, but meetings with hospital leaders had gone nowhere, and he was at his wit’s end. It was a grisly list.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

to  testify before a Senate committee  about the extreme cost-savings measures mandated by the hospital’s parent company, the now-bankrupt Steward Health Care. The private equity-backed company had been busy buying up hospitals and doctors’ groups, then putting the squeeze on them to maximize profits.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The cyberattack that forced Ascension to shut off access to its electronic health records cost the nonprofit hospital system roughly $1.3 billion, according to STAT’s analysis of financial documents the health system released Tuesday evening. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Within a few days of one another, two teams of accountants released separate estimates on the value of nonprofit hospitals’ tax exemptions. Their wildly different findings underscore the degree to which who’s counting and what they count matters.    The first, a JAMA study published today , pegged that number at $37.4

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JUNE 18, 2024

hospitals need to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. While there is yet no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus, this could emerge at any time, underscoring the urgent need for hospitals to bolster their preparedness for potential additional human cases of H5N1. The three human cases of H5N1 in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Hospitals, pharmacies, and other health care providers are getting stuck in an insurance processing logjam after UnitedHealth Group disclosed a cyberattack within a recently acquired subsidiary that serves as a central hub for payments across the industry.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The world’s first recipient of a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig experienced a rejection episode before recovering and leaving the hospital last week, a Massachusetts General Hospital doctor told STAT. But in his first few days back at home in Weymouth, Mass.,

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JUNE 3, 2024

More than a year ago, Kaiser Permanente made waves when it said it was creating a new, sprawling entity of nonprofit hospitals and doctors with Geisinger as its first takeover — the latest example of health care companies bulking up in an already highly consolidated industry. Nothing has happened since then, at least publicly.

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JULY 23, 2024

Hospitals across the country are facing a severe shortage of supplies of blood culture bottles, critical tools for diagnosing serious and sometimes life-threatening bloodstream infections. The shortage, which has been going on for weeks, could stretch into September, hospitals have been warned.

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APRIL 29, 2024

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s plan to improve cybersecurity at hospitals starts off with incentives, but eventually hospitals will face penalties for not adopting measures to protect patient data, HHS Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm said Monday. billion to pay hospitals to beef up their systems.

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AUGUST 24, 2024

Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is recovering at home after being hospitalized for nearly a week for West Nile virus infection. Covid-19 response, spent six days in hospital as doctors tried to figure out what was responsible for his illness. Fauci, a leader of the U.S.

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MARCH 26, 2024

A new study of hospitals’ charity care spending suggests nonprofit hospitals really aren’t that different from their for-profit counterparts. One major benefit of being a nonprofit hospital is receiving tax exemptions on property taxes, income taxes, and sales taxes.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

This week Medicare regulators released a 79-page report on a pandemic-era home hospital program that allowed approved health systems to deliver inpatient care in people’s homes. Over 300 hospitals enrolled in the program and the goal was to expand capacity at a time when people feared hospitals would be overrun.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

When children’s hospitals around the country were subject to threats and harassment in 2022 over misconceptions about gender-affirming care services, many of them responded by stripping information about the care from their websites.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

I believe it can also be seen as a characterization of work in a hospital, in which future physicians are simultaneously gaining remarkable skills and enduring career-altering abuse. Many chefs describe the television series “The Bear” as an accurate portrayal of the demands of a restaurant kitchen.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Recovery from a cardiac-related hospitalization requires coordinated, timely care to prevent a return to the hospital for an avoidable readmission. A new study concludes that while the picture is getting brighter for all Medicare patients, persistent racial disparities are widening.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Hospitals across the country are struggling to conserve and stretch their supplies of IV fluids in the wake of a shortage brought on by Hurricane Helene, in some cases giving patients Gatorade instead of IVs and warning the issue could lead to delays in elective medical procedures in the near future.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

WASHINGTON — The hospital industry has pushed back against Medicare payment reforms for years, arguing that the policies would financially hurt rural hospitals.  Hospitals that keep providing services like trauma centers, labor and delivery units, and burn units would get financial bonuses, too.  

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JUNE 19, 2024

Just two weeks ago, it appeared Novant Health was on the precipice of finalizing a deal to acquire two hospitals north of Charlotte, even though federal antitrust regulators, North Carolina officials, and economists were worried the deal would give Novant near-monopoly power in the region.

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APRIL 4, 2024

The prices charged by hospitals are exorbitant and rising. Here’s just the tip of the iceberg: $722.50 for a nurse to push a drug into an IV. 21,500 for ten stitches. Private health insurance premiums paid by working age adults are rising rapidly.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Private equity firms are leading the buyout of R1 RCM , a major provider of billing and administrative services for hospitals and physician groups. But R1’s hospital customers — some of the biggest systems in the country — were influential in steering the company to that outcome.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

government agency has threatened Johnson & Johnson with sanctions if the company proceeds with plans to alter payment methods for some hospitals that participate in a federal drug discount program. In a letter sent on Tuesday, the U.S. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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APRIL 25, 2024

Now, in an unusual step, the hospital where she works is trying to get the medicine approved on its own. LONDON — Claire Booth, a gene therapy researcher in London, had hoped that a biotech company would take her team’s work on an experimental medication for an ultra-rare children’s disease and get it to market.

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JUNE 25, 2024

For the first time, organ donors who were declared brain-dead were moved out of the hospital and into an independent, freestanding center to have their organs removed. With these patients out of the precious and limited ICU beds, the hospital could devote its time and resources to living patients.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Patients who received higher doses of buprenorphine, a common medication used to alleviate opioid withdrawal and cravings, were less likely to be hospitalized and less likely to discontinue treatment, according to a new study.    The findings run counter to federal guidelines about buprenorphine dosing.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

government agency said that a planned move by Johnson & Johnson to alter payment methods for some hospitals participating in a controversial drug discount program was “inconsistent” with federal law and requires approval before the company can proceed. The statement by the U.S. The move is slated for Oct.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A few decades ago, hotels were supreme. They had strong relationships with their customers, who were deeply loyal to particular hotels they trusted. But that has changed with the rise of online travel agencies (OTAs) like Booking.com and Expedia. Since the late 1990s, these OTAs have dramatically reshaped the travel industry.

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MARCH 13, 2024

As an intern at Duke University Medical Center in the ’90s, he’d sometimes be tasked with poring through a patient’s medical history to uncover the cause of their latest hospitalization. Back then, the stacks of paper records could tower 18 inches tall.

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MARCH 7, 2024

A new monoclonal antibody product to protect against respiratory syncytial virus was 90% effective at preventing little children from being hospitalized with RSV, according to new data from the first season it was in use.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Yet amid this endless cycle of anxiety, one place surprisingly gave me solace: the hospital. As a long-time patient of Texas Children’s Hospital, I saw early on how health care stood apart — a field untouched by the grasp of immigration status, a space where humanity held precedence over nationality. Beginning Nov.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

BARCELONA, Spain — Some of the patients waiting in the oncology ward of a hospital here, with its green-tiled floor and white walls, had arrived for a newfangled remedy for blood cancers, what’s known as a CAR-T therapy. Rather, they would be receiving a CAR-T brewed up right here at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.

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JUNE 21, 2024

But the relatively small system has an outsized reputation for keeping locals healthy and out of hospitals, according to the CEO of the health care network that struck a deal to acquire it. based nonprofit collective of doctors, hospitals, and health insurers, last year. Kaiser Permanente formed the Washington, D.C.-based

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JULY 25, 2024

That’s when thousands of new medical school graduates enter teaching hospitals across the country and provide care to patients as doctors for the first time. “Everything is new and full of possibilities,” said Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

NEW YORK — One Brooklyn Health, a safety net hospital system that serves some of this city’s poorest and sickest patients, would seem to be exactly the place to benefit most from the effort to remove race from calculations that assess kidney disease.

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MARCH 22, 2024

That’s why she and her organization have partnered with a hospital’s sports performance center to design fitness programs for Eleven-0’s members, who can also participate in research. “You feel like you’re getting what the Patriots next door get every day,” she said on a recent Friday afternoon.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Though health savings accounts, pharmacies, and major hospitals have all been attacked in 2024, a single data breach accounted for the vast majority of people’s data being exposed: Change Healthcare. Year after year, more Americans are affected by health care data breaches.

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