Hospitals nationwide continue to trim service lines as margin pressure, thin volumes and workforce shortages collide, and the fallout extends well beyond the inpatient setting. In the last month, 11 hospitals and health systems have announced plans to close, consolidate…
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St. Louis-based Ascension didn’t just acquire AMSURG’s more than 300 ASCs in its $3.9 billion deal that closed in early June, it acquired the machinery that runs them, and it’s telling the market it has no plans to touch it.…
Healthcare consumers stopped benchmarking their experience against the hospital across town. They benchmark it against banking, retail, travel and entertainment, and they expect the same convenience, transparency, personalization and communication from their care. Most health systems were not built for…
Sep 21, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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Presenters:
- Veronique Au, MD, MMM, Associate Vice President of Ambulatory Medicine, Vituity
- Michael Antoniades, President, Ingalls Memorial Hospital UChicago Medicine
- Shereef Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A., President, Oregon Health & Science University
- Hazelin H.L. Ngan, MHA, MA, CPXP, CPHQ, LSSBB, PMP, Chief Experience Officer, NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County
- Dwight W. McBee MBA, BSN, RN, CPXP, Senior Vice President & Chief Experience Officer, RWJ Barnabas Health
A physician in Texas was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for operating a medical clinic as an illegal pill mill. Maryam Qayum, MD, owned, operated and was the sole prescriber at Recare Health Clinic in Houston. The clinic was…
Atlas Healthcare Partners has landed two joint ventures so far in 2026 — one with Prisma Health, one with Fairview Health Services — continuing a run of deals that has made the Phoenix-based ASC operator a sought-after partner among nonprofit…
The big four for-profit hospital operators posted a common thread in their second-quarter 2026 results: softened outpatient and ASC volumes. Tenet Healthcare and HCA Healthcare leaned on acuity mix and pricing to largely offset the fewer procedures, though pricing didn’t…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has named Michael Schlosser, MD, as chief clinical officer and executive vice president, and Charles Gressle as president of the company’s new Ambulatory Operations Group. In the new role, Dr. Schlosser will assume responsibility for the…
The Justice Department’s decision to decline prosecution of Campus Eye Management Holdings while separately indicting its founder turned a spotlight on a corporate structure that has become the default architecture for private-equity-backed provider roll-ups. The structure, with the management services…
California has performed the first cardiac arrhythmia ablation in an ambulatory surgery center in the state, following a CMS policy change. In 2025, CMS added several complex cardiac arrhythmia ablation procedures to the ASC Covered Procedures List for 2026. California…
In seven specialties, nurse practitioners now average at least $150,000 a year, with the average annual salary for NPs surpassing $137,000. Here are 10 stats on the compensation landscape for nurse practitioners in 2026: