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Aspirus Health seeking merger partners beyond St. Luke’s Duluth

Aspirus Health continues to look for merger opportunities as it works toward a combination with St. Luke's Duluth. The Wausau, Wisconsin-based...

Cigna to exit two health insurance exchange markets

Cigna will halt health insurance exchange sales in Kansas and Missouri while expanding its presence in North Carolina for the 2024...

Telehealth firms turning to hybrid model for youth mental healthcare

Amid the pandemic and a behavioral workforce shortage, the growing need for adolescent mental healthcare has created opportunities for telemedicine startups...

California lending program gives nearly $300M to community hospitals

Madera Community Hospital in California’s Central Valley, which ceased operations last December and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March, moved...

Automating a comprehensive approach to social determinants of health

Hollywood, Florida-based Memorial Healthcare System began a journey just over a year ago to screen all patients for social factors that...

Nurse staffing, cancer care led digital health funding this week

Nursa nabs $80M Series B round Nursa, a nurse staffing platform company, completed an $80 million Series B funding...

Employee wellness becomes a tech play for health systems

Two health systems of vastly different sizes are using technology to tackle a widespread problem—clinician burnout.  Burnout was already...

Corewell Health reports improved financial results

Corewell Health's financial performance improved in the first half of 2023 compared to the prior year, nearly doubling its operating margin...

Appeals court revives UnitedHealth behavioral health lawsuit

A federal appeals court has revived a high-profile class action lawsuit that accuses a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary of improperly denying mental...

Nonprofit systems invest in expansion to meet patient demands

Nonprofit healthcare systems are adding or expanding facilities in an effort to keep up with patients' growing demands, despite a challenging operating...

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Travis Kelce is running away with Sportsman of the Year

Sportsman of the year is one of those nebulous awards that checks off boxes by usually honoring a do-gooder, an activist athlete, some stereotypical...

Have the Arizona Cardinals really gone from Gannon fodder to respectability?

This season was supposed to be a tankapalooza for the Arizona Cardinals. With Kyler Murray down for most of the year, they overhauled their...

Don’t blame us, we tried to warn everyone about Dallas

Well, well, well. I knew it was a matter of time, but wasn’t expecting it to happen this soon. Are the Cowboys that good...

MLB’s new playoff system has created a wonderful, hot mess of a finish

The playoffs are approaching, and perhaps an indirect benefit of expanding them is that the more flawed teams are competing for them, the funnier...

2023 MLB earned run average leaders

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 25: Blake Snell #4 of the San Diego Padres pitches against the San Francisco Giants in the first inning...