The proposed sale of Stewardship Health is part of Steward's plan to shore up its finances and bolster its nationwide network of 33 hospitals after the Dallas-based company last year fell behind in paying bills and rents.
MyMichigan Health and Ascension have signed a definitive agreement under which Ascension Michigan's hospitals in Saginaw, Tawas and Standish will become part of MyMichigan Health.
In nearly 90 minutes of arguments, a consensus appeared to emerge that the abortion opponents who challenged the FDA's approval of the medication, mifepristone, and subsequent actions to ease access to it, lack the legal right or standing to sue.
Andy Anderson, MD, CMO and chief quality officer at RWJBarnabas Health, discusses cost containment issues such as pharmaceutical stewardship, lab testing stewardship, and hospital length of stay management.
The hospital is increasingly transferring out seriously ill patients who need procedures it no longer provides, as owner Mount Sinai seeks to close it.
The pressure points inflicted by private equity ownership in health care extend far beyond Steward Health Care, and lawmakers have a long menu of policy reforms they can consider to erect new guardrails in a changing environment.
