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Kansas City, Mo.-based St. Luke’s Health System has launched outbound pharmacy delivery from its new Consolidated Service Center, centralizing medication distribution to 14 acute care and St. Luke’s Cancer Institute pharmacy locations as of June 19. The rollout marks the first phase of a broader shift toward a more integrated pharmacy operation, according to a […]
The Federal Trade Commission has approved UPS’ $1.6 billion acquisition of Andlaur Healthcare Group, a Canadian provider of temperature-controlled logistics and distribution services for the healthcare sector. The green light allows UPS to proceed with the transaction first announced in April, as the company continues to deepen its push into healthcare logistics. Under the deal, […]
Moderna’s experimental mRNA-based flu vaccine demonstrated a stronger immune response than a currently available standard flu shot in a late-stage phase 3 trial, clearing a path for regulatory approval and advancing the combo flu and COVID shot, CNBC reported June 30. The trial, which involved more than 40,000 adults 50 and older, showed that the […]
The Justice Department, through its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown investigation, has charged 324 defendants in schemes involving more than $14.6 billion in intended losses to Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs. Five things to know: 1. The 2025 operation was the largest in the department’s history, more than double the previous record of […]
Heritage Valley Kennedy Hospital in Kennedy Township, Pa., will officially close at 11:59 p.m. on June 30 due to declining patient volumes and diminishing reimbursements, a spokesperson for the hospital confirmed to Becker’s. Beaver, Pa.-based Heritage Valley Health System acquired the hospital in 2019 and operates two other hospitals in Beaver and Sewickley, Pa. The […]
Providence workers are set to begin a two-day strike July 2 at Hospice of Petaluma (Calif.) and Memorial Hospice in Santa Rosa, Calif. The action marks their first-ever strike and comes amid ongoing contract negotiations. The strike involves more than 100 nurses, social workers, home health aides, chaplains and other hospice workers, according to their […]
American medicine is facing an epidemic of physician burnout that threatens the overall quality of healthcare. Unhappy clinicians are bad for patients and for business, leading to an estimated $5 billion in losses annually due to turnover, reduced clinical hours and inefficient care, according to an analysis by investigators at Mayo Clinic, Stanford University School […]
As federal lawmakers continue to debate major reforms to Medicaid spending, entrepreneur Mark Cuban is proposing what he believes is “the best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid.” In a June 26 post on X, the billionaire and co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs called for the naming and shaming of large employers whose full-time […]
Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System has appointed two new vice presidents, Patrick Brown, MD, as vice president and chief medical information officer and Philip Karp as vice president and CTO, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. Dr. Brown previously served as vice president and CMIO at Centra Health in Lynchburg, Va. At BayCare […]
Theravive - Therapy News And Blogging - A new study published in Frontiers of Medicine looked at the effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and health education on carotid intima-media thickness and major adverse cardiovascular events in Black men and women. “This study was a follow-up assessment of cardiovascular events in individuals with evidence or early CV disease, who underwent a one-year intervention of either Transcendental Meditation or health education,” study author Dr. Keith Norris told us. “We were interested in seeing if there might be a long-term positive impact on CV events such as hospitalization due to myocardial infarction, unstable angina, coronary revascularization, stroke, or heart failure, or as death from CVD.”