Presbyterian Healthcare Services' chief executive avoided directly addressing merger speculation at an Albuquerque business meeting Wednesday, following the collapse of a major deal two years ago. "No updates. ... Our focus is on us. Our focus is on New Mexico. Our focus is on 2025," Dr. Rishi Sikka, the Presbyterian CEO, told a group of business leaders at the Economic Forum of Albuquerque. The response follows a blown deal between Presbyterian Healthcare Services and Iowa-based UnityPoint Health — which disintegrated in 2023 for reasons the state's largest health system has not disclosed. Presbyterian executives had promoted the deal as a cost-cutting and efficiency-improving move that would've created an $11 billion conglomerate.
In a report released by the International Council of Nurses, the shortage of nurses in the current healthcare system should be treated as a global health emergency.
This shortage is detrimental to the United States healthcare system and there need to be changes and solutions to motivate nurses.
This crisis requires immediate solutions and one nurse has stepped up to implement these needed changes. Bre Loughlin, a nurse of over 20 years, created “Nurse Disrupted”, a Madison-based platform that allows nurses to work virtually, according to The Cap Times. This platform gives nurses and their affiliated hospitals the flexibility to utilize their services while giving nurses a new way to work that doesn’t overload them.
A program at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital providing a lifeline for sick kids and their families is looking to expand.
There are currently five nurse navigators at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital who serve as a bridge between patients and providers. The hospital hopes to grow the program and is using the Heroes Ball hosted by the St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Foundation to raise $2 million to help fund five new nurse navigator positions to provide critical support.
Nurse navigators currently work in cardiology, oncology and OB departments. New positions would help patient families with neurology, endocrinology and gastrointestinal needs.
A program at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital providing a lifeline for sick kids and their families is looking to expand.
There are currently five nurse navigators at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital who serve as a bridge between patients and providers. The hospital hopes to grow the program and is using the Heroes Ball hosted by the St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Foundation to raise $2 million to help fund five new nurse navigator positions to provide critical support.
Nurse navigators currently work in cardiology, oncology and OB departments. New positions would help patient families with neurology, endocrinology and gastrointestinal needs.
It has become all too common: A healthcare system and an insurance company approach the expiration date for their contract and become embroiled in a nasty dispute.
Letters from each blaming the other side are sent to patients covered by the insurance company, warning that their physicians may end up out of network if a new contract is not reached before the expiration deadline.
A measles outbreak in Kansas doubled in less than a week to 23 cases and has “a possible link” to outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico that have sickened more than 370, the state health department said Wednesday. And health officials in Ohio say a single case identified in Ashtabula County has spread to nine others. Even before these two growing clusters were reported, the number of measles cases in the U.S. had already surpassed the case count for all of 2024, according to the CDC.