The Heywood Urgent Care Center at 266 Main St. is shifting its business model, effective Dec. 1 and suspending its urgent care services for the general public. Instead of seeing patients who may or may not have a primary care provider, the practice is changing to provide same-day sick care visits only to those patients whose primary care physician is a member of the Heywood Medical Group.
Lewis County Health System is one step closer to being reimbursed millions of dollars from the county. The Health and Human Services Committee unanimously approved moving $2.5 million from this year’s fund balance and $1 million per year over the next two years.
Lion Star LLC, the group that operates Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Friday, saying it owes as much as $50 million to creditors. But CEO Sean Fowler says the company shows signs of profitability and “our assets handily outweigh our liabilities.”
They’re vital to their communities, but rural hospitals and clinics across the U.S. are facing growing challenges to stay open with providers scaling back or closing.
The Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) painted a bleak financial picture of the state's healthcare industry on Monday, with the release of a new report citing hundreds of millions of dollars in operating losses so far in 2023.
MLK Community Hospital, a crucial safety-net facility serving the South Los Angeles area, may run out of money to pay its bills as soon as next year, hospital leaders are warning.