Industry Trends

The number of hospital consolidations for the first quarter still lags pre-COVID-19 pandemic first quarters but the revenue side of the equation rose to levels not seen since 2018.

Many anticipate that investment slowdown to continue into 2023, but there’s a good chance the home health industry will buck that trend.

In addition to lower deal volume, disclosed spending decreased from previous quarters.

Bay Area Hospital — the largest on the Oregon Coast — was, and remains, in a deep financial swamp, likely the worst of any hospital in the state.

As serious medical conditions continue to rise, outpatient surgeries and patient days are likely to increase, boosting Zacks Medical-Hospital industry players' revenues. However, growing competition in this market remains a common theme.

The American Hospital Association said a report from the Lown Institute on nonprofit hospitals' charity care and community benefit spending "is wrong and cannot be taken seriously."

Advocate Health Enterprises is one of the largest integrated health systems in the U.S. and is the investment arm of Advocate Health.

Healthcare private equity firms and other backers are homing in on value-based care (VBC) companies as key investment targets, according to Bain.

Health First shared a statement citing inflation — higher prices for labor and construction — as a reason why the county’s largest employer will still relocate Cape Canaveral Hospital, but it will no longer build what Health First called a “wellness village.”

The deep learning capabilities of modern AI have reached the technical tipping point where today’s algorithms can offer healthcare organizations the attractive proposition of helping them make better business decisions, shape better clinical outcomes, and more broadly speaking, improve patient care and delivery experience.