Here are the developments that marked the last week in healthcare, handpicked by Becker's editors. To receive curated articles like this in your inbox daily, sign up for the Hospital Review newsletter here.
- All of HHS' approximately 80,000 employees received a voluntary buyout offer of $25,000 to resign from their jobs.
- Texas would lose the most healthcare jobs if ACA premium tax credits expire at the end of 2025, according to a March 3 brief from the Commonwealth Fund.
- The second of two rounds of layoffs at Mass General Brigham began March 10, with about 1,500 employees reportedly affected by the overall workforce reductions.
- Thomas Scully resigned from the UVA Health System board in protest of the University of Virginia's treatment of former CEO K. Craig Kent.
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- There have been multiple reports to the American Hospital Association and the FBI of hospitals and health systems receiving data extortion letters.
- As large companies reduce managerial and executive ranks, should healthcare follow suit? Here is what leaders at four health systems told Becker's.
- Chief data officer was identified in a recent analysis as the fastest-growing C-suite role. In hospitals and health systems, however, the position is evolving more than growing.
- Intermountain Health shares proven cost stewardship strategies here.?
- Epic is building AI that can identify care gaps and proactively reach out to patients to schedule appointments, and foresee hospital capacity bottlenecks.
- Over the past four years, more than 80 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies, contributing to the growing majority of rural hospitals that lack labor and delivery services.
- The CIO-CFO balancing act: Learn how to innovate on a budget here.
