DSO affiliation among U.S. dentists more than doubled over the past decade, rising from 7.2% in 2015 to 16.1% in 2024. That growth creates opportunity, but it also raises the operational stakes. A revenue cycle that works cleanly across two…
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A regional health system was running its urgent care network at a loss and struggling to meet patient demand. Rather than retreat, it partnered to rebuild the service line around a retail-style operating playbook attracting new patients to the system,…
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Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has established a care collaboration with Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-based Burjeel Medical City. Roswell Park will provide expertise to support and strengthen Burjeel Medical City’s multidisciplinary thoracic cancer program, according to a…
Clinicians at CHRISTUS Health keep describing their AI platform the same way: ”This is life-changing.” But when it came time to deepen the partnership, leadership did not rely on early wins alone. They looked at how much the platform had…
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Behavioral health units carry a disproportionate share of workplace violence in healthcare, and the staff assaults, burnout and turnover that follow put both care quality and margins at risk. Classroom de-escalation training rarely matches a live incident, but new safety…
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Value-based care is entering a new phase and the health plans setting the pace are no longer focused on payment reform alone. They are building deeper partnerships with providers, putting clinical data to work and pursuing measurable gains in quality…
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Charleston, W.Va.-based Vandalia Health opened an oncology and clinical expansion at Kingwood, W.Va.-based Mon Preston Memorial Hospital. Construction on the almost $6.9 million project began in 2025, according to a July 29 news release from Vandalia Health. The new facilities…
Cancer research groups and industry leaders are trying to raise awareness of a surgery that could reduce patients’ ovarian cancer risk by almost 80% — fallopian tube removal. While evidence of the surgery’s nearly 80% risk reduction was published Feb.…
St. Louis-based SSM Health has expanded the cancer center at St. Joseph Hospital-Lake Saint Louis (Mo.). The “multi-million-dollar transformation” increases treatment capacity and patient access to oncology services, according to a July 9 news release from SSM Health. The cancer…
The American Society for Radiation Oncology has elected Beth Erickson, MD, as president. Dr. Erickson is chief of brachytherapy services and the J. Frank and Vera B. Wilson Professor of Radiation Oncology at Milwaukee-based Medical College of Wisconsin, according to…
