Beth Jones Sanborn
Agnesian HealthCare, Monroe Clinic and their affiliates will adopt the SSM Health brand, while still honoring their legacy names.
ERs are filling up nationwide, triggering ambulance diversions and bed shortages. Here's a roundup of reports from various geographical regions of the U.S.
The Missouri-based health system will expand with more than 30 new co-branded facilities containing with smart glass rooms, transparent charting, mobile x-ray equipment.
Wide variations in hospital performances can have a major financial impact on patients, health systems and surrounding communities, according to researchers at the health system.
The system also announced $12 million investment in JFK Medical Center cardiac catheterization lab.
Devin McGraw had also been working as ONC's chief privacy officer, a position that ONC head Donald Rucker has said will not be filled.
Cost-reduction plans will largely consist of staff cuts and contract renegotiation with suppliers and vendors, system said.
In 2016, the total national spending on pay-for-quality hit $354.5 billion.
AMA report finds 75.6 percent of physicians had practices that treated uninsured patients in 2016, compared to 81.3 percent in 2012.
Report argues hospitals must prepare protocols for dealing with ICE enforcement, ensure safe place for immigrants seeking care.