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For over a decade, I taught college students how to communicate in professional settings. Every class began with a single, all-consuming thesis: “Nobody will ever want to read anything you write at work. Period.” That’s a harsh and, perhaps, disheartening warning. Particularly for bright-eyed, soon-to-be employees about to make their dent in the universe. The real …

Your Colleagues Don’t Read Anything You Write. Here Are 8 Ways to Change That.Read More

Newsweek has ranked Cleveland Clinic the No. 2 hospital in the world, as part of its World’s Best Hospitals 2020 analysis. In the U.S., Cleveland Clinic again earned the No. 2 ranking, while four other Cleveland Clinic hospitals also were listed among the best hospitals nationwide: Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital Cleveland Clinic Florida-Weston Cleveland Clinic …

Cleveland Clinic named No. 2 Hospital in the World by NewsweekRead More

In afternoon trading on Monday, Healthcare stocks were the best performing sector, losing just 6.5%. Within that group, AmerisourceBergen Corp. (Symbol: ABC) and Quest Diagnostics, Inc. (Symbol: DGX) were two large stocks leading the way, showing a loss of 1.4% and 2.1%, respectively. Among healthcare ETFs, one ETF following the sector was the Health Care …

Monday Sector Leaders: Healthcare, ServicesRead More

Amazon has banned 10,000 users for price gouging and removed 1million products for making spurious health claims amid the global  coronavirus outbreak. Unscrupulous online traders have tried to cash in on the health emergency as stocks of hand sanitizer and face masks have run low in stores amid panic-buying. Two-packs of Purrell hand sanitizer, which …

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Tim Dungey, VP of health systems for McKesson Medical-Surgical, passed away on Feb. 22 as a result of cancer. He was 61. Dungey joined McKesson in September 1987, and held executive positions in its extended care, pharmaceutical and acute care businesses. He served as VP, West, for Owens & Minor after O&M acquired McKesson’s acute …

Mourning the loss of Tim DungeyRead More

Vidant Health is laying off nearly 200 workers across eastern North Carolina  to address a budget shortfall, the health system’s CEO said Monday. Dr. Michael Waldrum said in an email that the first steps to eliminate the $18 million budget shortfall during the first quarter of fiscal year 2020 was “to reduce costs, implement operational efficiencies …

Vidant Health announces 191 layoffs, citing budget shortfallRead More

President Trump on Friday signed a bill providing $8.3 billion in emergency funding to combat the coronavirus outbreak. The bill provides $7.76 billion to federal, state and local agencies to combat the coronavirus and authorizes an additional $500 million in waivers for Medicare telehealth restrictions… The measure includes $2.2 billion for health agencies to prepare …

Trump signs $8.3 billion coronavirus packageRead More

“The Executive Order creates opportunity for the United States to increase domestic manufacturing quickly to protect the public in light of the global pandemic. Already, Premier has been working with domestic manufacturers to expand production capacity for respirators, such as N95 masks. In addition, we have also been in discussions with non-healthcare, ancillary manufacturers to …

Premier: Statement on Presidential Executive Order making general use respirators availableRead More

Join us for the highly anticipated IDN Insights: East! This event will highlight some of the most progressive, large healthcare systems and GPOs in the Eastern U.S. Attendees will have the chance to network with their peers and customers, and learn about how large IDNs measure successful contracts, best practices to ensure long and lucrative relationships …

New Speakers & IDNs Added to IDN Insights: East!Read More

According to the annual Benchmarking Report from the Urgent Care Association (UCA), the total number of urgent care centers in the U.S. reached 9,616 as of November 2019, representing growth of 9.6% from the prior year. The report also indicates that almost 97% of urgent care patient encounters lasted one hour or less, demonstrating the …

Urgent Care Industry Grows to More than 9,000 Centers NationwideRead More

The Cleveland Clinic saw its operating income spike 47% to $390 million, according to numbers released Wednesday during the annual State of the Clinic address. The system’s revenue rose 18% last year to just shy of $11 billion. That marks a significant change from 2018 when the Clinic’s operating income fell 19% and revenue rose …

Cleveland Clinic Records Financial Growth in 2019Read More

Having trouble getting hold of medical masks? China is the world’s largest producer of them, with a reported daily capacity of 20 million pieces, but by the estimate of its manufacturers domestic demand alone is around 50 to 60 million per day. Chinese mask makers were only operating at 76 per cent capacity in mid-Feb. …

There Aren’t Enough Medical Masks to Fight CoronavirusRead More