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It’s the sort of toxic behavior that can dramatically affect worker morale. BY MELINDA BRIANA EPLER6 MINUTE READ They can happen at work or in a personal capacity: Microaggressions are everyday slights, insults, and negative verbal and nonverbal communications that, whether intentional or not, can make someone feel belittled, disrespected, unheard, unsafe, othered, tokenized, gaslighted, […]

Noah Schwartz Hospital officials told Becker’s they don’t view Costco’s entrance into healthcare as a threat to their business but as an opportunity for expanded care to reach new patients. Costco is joining competitors such as Walmart, Best Buy and Amazon in breaking into healthcare through a new partnership with virtual care marketplace Sesame. “Costco

Paige Twenter Physician input is crucial to making and enforcing tough business decisions as financial stressors on the healthcare industry grow in strength, according to leaders at Ballad Health. The system’s CEO, Alan Levine, told Becker’s that Ballad, like many other systems and hospitals, has had to reduce service lines. Some of these choices “are

Alexis Kayser (Email) Amid staffing shortages and dipping engagement levels, workforce retention is top-of-mind for many healthcare leaders. But oftentimes, the problem extends beyond frontline employees and into management — even C-suites. In the first 11 days of September, Becker’s recorded 11 executive exits from hospitals and health systems. The trend keeps pace with CEO

Advanced practice providers are the most requested specialty, according to a report from AMN healthcare. By Will Maddox  September 8, 2023|9:00 am Searches for nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified registered nurse anesthetists outpaced inquiries for family physicians last year, according to data compiled by Dallas-based healthcare staffing firm AMN Healthcare. The data reflects patients

— Here’s my legislative solution to put an end to this by Arvind Venkat, MD September 16, 2023 Venkat is an emergency physician and state representative. As an emergency medicine resident in the early 2000s, I cared for a patient in her early 60s with back pain. Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care

Alan Condon – Friday, September 8th, 2023 Cleveland Clinic is one of a few top health systems that has expanded its international presence in recent years, increasing the diversity of its healthcare operations while promoting its clinical expertise in new markets. The 23-hospital, 6,699-bed system has locations in Ohio, Florida and Las Vegas, as well

Giles Bruce A rural Appalachian healthcare provider has boosted its connectivity by switching to Starlink satellite internet from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Virginia Business reported. Health Wagon operates mobile clinics that visit 13 sites in six Virginia counties, as well as two bricks-and-mortar medical clinics and a dental clinic, according to the Aug. 31 story. The

by Amy Faith Ho, MD, MPH September 3, 2023 The first time I was assaulted in healthcare, I was a third-year medical student. An incarcerated, agitated patient handcuffed to a gurney rail in the emergency department fought so hard, the entire metal rail separated from the bed. The 6-foot piece of heavy steel would’ve gone

Bipartisan legislation aims to get more Americans into high-deductible insurance, but perils would remain. WASHINGTON, DC : Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), chairman of the health subcommittee, chairs a during a House Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing, September 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. The hearing concerned a variety of legislation facing the committee, including increased access to