Alex Kacik

Most not-for-profit hospital boards lag investor-owned hospital chains when it comes to expertise, compliance and accountability, held back by recruiting challenges and outdated governance models.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

More than 200 rural hospitals are at risk of closing over the next three years amid payment cots and rising expenses.

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

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

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