Mayo Clinic latest health system to report hit by volatile equities market
Mayo Clinic's investment returns swung $964 million lower into negative territory in 2018 year-over-year as the not-for-profit system weathers volatile markets.
Not-For-Profit Hospitals
Baylor Scott & White is the latest system to weather investment losses
Baylor Scott & White is the latest health system whose non-operating results took a hit on weak investment returns. Despite that, its revenue and operating margin inched up.
Investor-Owned Hospitals
Hospital CFOs losing confidence they can adapt to new business models
A new Kaufman Hall survey finds hospital and health system CFOs are losing confidence that their organizations can manage the financial effects of evolving business conditions.
Academic Hospitals
Jefferson Health may purchase Temple University Health System's cancer center
The Philadelphia-based academic health systems have an exclusive 90-day window to determine whether the acquisition will be a good fit. They will also evaluate the sale of Temple's interest in Health Partners Plans.
Specialty Hospitals
Children's National Health System and HSC Health Care System ink partnership
Children's National Health System and HSC Health Care System signed a letter of intent to partner. The Washington, D.C.-based pediatric providers aim to finalize the partnership next year.
Critical Access Hospitals
Provider with ties to lab scheme shutters Texas clinic
Little River Healthcare, the bankrupt company that's poised to shutter two hospitals, closed a primary- and specialty-care clinic in Temple, Texas.
Behavioral Health Hospitals
Emergency rooms fill up with psych patients — and then they wait
As dozens of patients wait in busy hospital ERs for psychiatric evaluations and inpatient bed placements, mental health experts search for solutions.
Safety Net Hospitals
California's drug-pricing plan could pare down 340B program
Former California Gov. Jerry Brown wanted to pare back the 340B program in his state during his tenure, but hospitals defeated his proposal in the Legislature. Now an executive order from new Gov. Gavin Newsom could overhaul the program.
