by Jordana Choucair | Sep 7, 2021 | Providers
Providence has allocated more than $220 million toward hiring and retaining more health care professionals. The nonprofit hospital system will use the money to support several initiatives: $1,000 bonuses to all employees up to the director level who have been at...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 3, 2021 | Providers
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is urging the Biden administration to declare a national nurse staffing crisis and adopt new policies to bolster the workforce. In a letter sent to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, the ANA warns that the prolonged pandemic response...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 2, 2021 | Providers
A judge ruled against dozens of hospitals that sued HHS over changes for disproportionate share hospital payments. The federal judge sided with HHS, stating that the hospitals’ desire to recalculate those payments was outside of her review per the Medicare Act....
by Jordana Choucair | Aug 30, 2021 | Providers
The U.S. saw an average of 100,000 daily COVID-19 hospitalizations over the past week for the first time since winter. Hospitalizations nationwide have increased by nearly 500 percent in the past two months, particularly across Southern states where vaccination rates...
by webmaster | Aug 25, 2021 | Providers
Kaufman Hall’s latest National Hospital Flash Report found that hospital margins and volumes remain below pre-pandemic numbers. Hospitals in the South and Midwest saw the biggest year-over-year drops in margins driven by high rates of the delta variant and...
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