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The University of California Irvine plans to build a $1 billion hospital campus that will house a 144-bed acute-care facility, ambulatory care center, and cancer center. The hospital will focus on key clinical programs such as oncology, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics and digestive health, and will include a 24-hour emergency department. The first patients are expected …

UCI to build $1B hospital on Irvine campusRead More

U.S. hospitals lost more than $20 billion from suspending elective surgeries over three months at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset in this country, according to an article published recently in the Annals of Surgery. A Transunion brief released Wednesday suggested hospital patient volumes won’t return to pre-pandemic levels at any point this year. It showed …

Hospitals lost $20B by pausing electives last yearRead More

HCA Healthcare announced it has entered into a new joint venture business with A Plus International Inc. (A Plus), a global manufacturer of healthcare products, to expand access to personal protective equipment (PPE) by manufacturing surgical and procedure masks in the United States. HealthTrust’s wholly owned subsidiary, Resource Optimization & Innovation (ROi), will serve as …

HCA Healthcare invests in domestic PPE production, HealthTrust will serve as distributorRead More

Trinity Health ACO (Livonia, MI), a Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO), achieved a 95% quality performance score and $24.4 million in shared savings in performance year 2019. The Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model was created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and is in its fifth year. It sets financial …

Trinity Health ACO achieves $24.4M in shared savings for 2019Read More

ANAE invites you to a Supply Chain Leader Webinar on February 4, at 2:00 p.m. ET, with Tony Johnson, SVP and Chief Supply Chain Officer, at Baylor Scott & White Health.  John Pritchard, publisher of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting and president of ANAE, will interview Tony and cover current priorities of his health system …

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OptumCare, the part of UnitedHealth Group that provides direct patient care, plans on adding thousands of physicians in the next year, UnitedHealth’s CEO said during a Jan. 20 earnings call. Currently, OptumCare employs or is affiliated with 50,000 physicians and 1,400 clinics. OptumCare expects that its employed and affiliated physicians will grow by at least 10,000 during …

Optum expects to add 10,000 physicians this yearRead More

According to Premier, shortages are shifting from the personal protective equipment (PPE) scarcities that characterized 2020 to exponential demand for the supplies that play a vital role in COVID-19 testing, diagnostics and treatment. According to Premier data across a representative sample of health systems, since May 2020, average daily usage of sterile water has increased …

Premier releases data on shortages of supplies for COVID-19 testing, diagnostics and treatmentRead More

HCA Healthcare to acquire Meadows Regional Medical Center (Vidalia, GA) for $73 million. The parties previously signed a letter of intent in October 2019.The hospital’s parent company, Meadows Health Alliance, its board of directors, and the Toombs County Hospital Authority approved the sale of the medical center and its assets to HCA last week. The …

HCA plans to acquire Meadows Regional Medical Center for $73MRead More

The annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is one of the best ways to diagnose the financial condition of the healthcare industry. CEOs, and CFOs from many of the most prestigious and most well-respected health systems in the world presented. Here is a list of what these health systems are doing to ensure they stay vital …

The No. 1 lesson from the 2021 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference: Healthcare is ‘too vital to fail’Read More

Orlando Health plans to open its six-story, $145 million hospital in Horizon West, Fla., Jan. 30.  The 214,000-square-foot Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital will have space for 120 patient beds, outpatient imaging capabilities and laboratory services.  It also will be seamlessly integrated with a 78,000-square-foot emergency department and medical pavilion that have been open on the campus …

Orlando Health to open $145M hospital this monthRead More

Scores of health care workers are still declining to take the COVID-19 vaccine, presenting problems to the pandemic response by sending the wrong message to the public and risking staff shortages if workers become sick. In New York state, more than 40 percent of health workers, who are first in line to get the shot …

Health workers refusing vaccine is new growing US problemRead More