Healthcare consulting firm Kaufman Hall reports that hospital credit rating downgrades declined in 2025 while the number of upgrades increased, representing a tempering of downgrade activity in recent years. It says growing volumes, increased supplemental funding and improved labor and expense management “contributed to improved financial performance for many borrowers.”…
A new survey of healthcare professionals and administrators found that unauthorized artificial intelligence (AI) tools and apps are in wide use across hospitals and health systems in the U.S., including for direct patient care. Wolters Kluwer Health, which conducted the survey, calls these unauthorized tools “shadow AI,” and says their…
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Last week saw numerous mainstream media accounts of the troubles facing specific rural hospitals and the resulting negative impacts on the small communities they serve. Williamston, N.C. NPR affiliate WUNC in Chapel Hill, N.C., focused on the small town of Williamston, N.C., the seat of Martin County, which has approximately 22,000…
Sage Memorial Hospital (SMH), which serves the Navajo Nation in Ganado, Ariz., has reopened its surgical services department for the first time in nearly two decades. On Jan. 21, it performed a colonoscopy and endoscopy, culminating an historic return for the hospital’s general surgery department, which closed in 2006 due…
Is your facility curious about robotically assisted mitral valve repair? Cleveland Clinic, which has now performed more than 2,600 of these operations, has plenty to share with you about it. And it claims that its safety and efficacy are “comparable” to open repair. Cardiothoracic surgeon Per Wierup, MD, PhD, whom Cleveland…
A study by investigators at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha suggests that by embedding a standardized glucose management protocol into the electronic health record (EHR), perioperative teams can better control the blood sugar levels of diabetic patients. The study, published in Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology,…
According to an article by non-profit news outlet San Antonio Report, the Board of Managers of University Health, a locally owned and operated health system serving San Antonio and Bexar County, Texas, has voted to enter a $50 million deal to acquire two medical towers next to a shuttered CHRISTUS…
A new study by researchers at Corewell Health East William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., posed this question: “What are the public’s attitudes toward recent U.S. state laws permitting internationally trained surgeons to practice without completing U.S.-based residency training?” The study, published in JAMA Surgery, found that while the…
Community Health Systems of Franklin, Tenn., announced Tuesday that a subsidiary entered a definitive agreement to sell “substantially all” of the assets of the 180-bed Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville, Ala., along with its associated outpatient centers and practices, to Huntsville Hospital Health System (HH Health) for $450 million, “subject to…
