As hospitals and health systems accelerate their digital transformation efforts, many are confronting a silent but growing leadership gap: the absence of succession planning for CIOs. CIOs have become ...

Titus Regional Medical Center, a 174-bed acute care facility in Mount Pleasant, Texas, is exploring a strategic partnership with a larger health system. “As the region’s last independent rural health ...

Hospitals in the Midwest score the highest in hospital performance metrics, a recent study found. The study, published June 11 in PLOS One, analyzed Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare ...

When medically complex patients require hospital care, they tend to experience longer recovery times than other patients do ...

Physician assistant compensation rose in 2024 for the second consecutive year, according to Medscape‘s 2025 Physician Assistant Compensation Report. The report is based on survey insights from 2,066 ...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed legislation that aims to increase oversight of hospital mergers and acquisitions. The legislation — House Bill 1460 — would give the Pennsylvania ...

Mineola, N.Y.-based NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island cut time from door-to-activation of the neurointerventional radiology team by 12.5 minutes, or 35.2%, for patients with strokes. The hospital asked ...

The FDA has approved a polypill as an initial treatment for hypertension in adults for the first time. Here’s what to know: 1. Widaplik — manufactured by George Medicines — is a polypill that contains ...

When clinical leaders at Mercy Health St. Elizabeth Youngstown (Ohio) Hospital first proposed the goal of reaching zero hospital-acquired infections, some physicians balked. It was a lofty, ...

Muhlenberg in Bethlehem, Pa., has opened a new hybrid electrophysiology lab.  Three things to know: 1. The Steve and Jeanne Follett Hybrid Electrophysiology Lab is the first in Pennsylvania to feature ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new members to the CDC panel that oversees vaccine recommendations June 11. The appointments come two days after HHS terminated all 17 members of the ...

Over the past four years, several high-profile hospital deals have been terminated — some before agreements were finalized, others after decades of collaboration. Here are six hospital partnerships ...