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Alex Kacik is a senior reporter for Modern Healthcare in Chicago. Aside from hospital operations, he covers supply chain, legal and finance. Before joining Modern Healthcare in 2017, Kacik covered various business beats for seven years in the Santa Barbara, California region. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

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Hospital prices could increase to account for higher-than-average labor costs, experts said.

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RaDonda Vaught sentencing raises alarms in medical community

Improving patient safety is about system change, not punishing workers who err, experts say.

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Advocate Aurora Health, Atrium Health to form $27 billion system

Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health would have 67 hospitals and nearly 150,000 employees across Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. It would be the sixth largest system by revenue.

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Kaiser Permanente posts $961 million net loss in Q1

Kaiser Permanente reported $24.2 billion in operating revenues, which didn't keep pace with its $24.3 billion in operating expenses.

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FDA's limitations on J&J vaccine haven't disrupted providers

The FDA scaled back the use of the J&J vaccine because it caused a rare blood clotting disorder.

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Mass General Brigham gets green light for slimmer expansion

State officials green-lit a new 482-bed tower at Mass General Hospital and a 78-bed addition to Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital.

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Supreme Court abortion draft creates tangle of issues for big hospital systems

Multistate systems would have to navigate a confusing patchwork of state laws that pose an array of legal and ethical dilemmas.

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Behavioral health projects fuel healthcare construction and design

More than 70% of the 89 construction and design firms surveyed listed behavioral health as a growing sector.

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Not-for-profit hospitals lean on investment income to cover losses

Rising staffing costs, coupled with lower investment returns and waning COVID-19 funding, puts some financially weaker systems in a precarious position.

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The current CEO of Detroit-based Henry Ford Health will take over CommonSpirit's helm in August, when Lloyd Dean retires.

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Medicare cuts squeeze rural hospitals

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Hospitals with the lowest profit margins were sold more than twice as often as those with the highest profit margins.

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Mask mandate ruling was 'irresponsibly abrupt,' hospital exec says

Masking has become standard infection control protocol for many providers, and that isn't expected to change as other industries shift their guidelines.

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Healthcare workers warn of the harms of consolidation

Federal regulators asked for input as they rework their horizontal and vertical merger guidelines.

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