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A Catholic Hospital System's Affiliate Will Pay $23.50 a Share for Surgery Partners, a 49 Per Cent Premium. Bain Capital Offered $25.75 Last Year and Is Keeping Its Stake.

HealthSpan Partners, an affiliate of the Cincinnati-based Catholic health system Bon Secours Mercy Health, agreed on 26 October to buy Surgery Partners for $23.50 a share in cash, in a deal valued at about $5.7 billion including debt. Bain Capital, which owns about 39 per cent, will roll its shares into the buyer. The deal needs a vote of disinterested shareholders and regulatory approval, and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027.

By Thomas Gutierrez · October 27, 2026

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Private Equity Hospitals Charged $669 More Per Patient. Costs Did Not Fall.

A Campaign for Accountability analysis comparing seventy-one private equity-owned hospitals with seventy-one closely matched peers found that PE-owned hospitals collected $669 more in operating profit per patient after acquisition. Their operating costs per patient showed no statistically significant change.

By Margaret Holloway · October 9, 2026

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A Clinical AI Reads Every Patient's Chart Every Morning. Most Hospitals Don't.

Healthleap, which scans hospital patient records daily to flag undiagnosed conditions, raised $38 million and expanded from three hospital partners to more than fifty in a year. The malnutrition detection it started with is now the model for a broader class of clinical surveillance tools.

By Daniel Okafor · October 9, 2026

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Gaza's Hospitals Run Entirely on Generators. Their Diesel Is Funded Until Saturday.

Gaza's Health Ministry says the World Health Organization will stop supplying diesel to more than 20 hospitals and health centres from 19 September because of a funding shortfall. The WHO has not commented. Gaza's hospitals have run on generators since the power was cut in October 2023, and the generators were already running on oil changed a quarter as often as they should be.

By Thomas Gutierrez · September 14, 2026

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One Contract Pharmacy in 1995. Thirty-Two Thousand Five Hundred Now.

The 340B discount programme was built so safety-net hospitals could buy drugs cheaply for their own patients. It ran through a single contract pharmacy in 1995 and through 32,528 of them by 2024. Two bills now in Congress propose opposite explanations for how that happened.

By Thomas Gutierrez · September 7, 2026

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Indiana Takes Away the Emergency Department's Release Valve

Hospitals across the state have agreed to stop turning ambulances away when the emergency department fills up. Diversion was never extra capacity. It was a way of moving a full department's problem onto the ambulance and the patient inside it.

By Thomas Gutierrez · September 2, 2026

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The Hospital Runs on a Supply Chain With One of Everything

A hospital can substitute a drug, a surgeon and a shift. It usually cannot substitute the single-source device a procedure was built around, and nobody notices which items those are until one of them stops arriving.

By Thomas Gutierrez · August 30, 2026

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The Emergency Department Hires Security Before It Hires Nurses

Assaults on hospital workers are frequent enough that security has become a standing cost, and the spending competes directly with the staffing whose absence contributes to the problem.

By Thomas Gutierrez · August 27, 2026

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The Hospital Bought a Device With a Software End Date

Imaging systems and infusion pumps are capital assets depreciated over a decade or more, running software the manufacturer stops supporting long before the hardware wears out.

By Thomas Gutierrez · August 25, 2026

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Travel Nursing Was Supposed to Be Temporary

Hospitals brought in contract nurses to cover a crisis and have not been able to stop. The rates came down, the dependency did not, and the permanent staff who remain now work beside colleagues paid differently for the same shift.

By Thomas Gutierrez · August 21, 2026

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The Delivery Room Is the First Thing a Rural Hospital Closes

Obstetric units require staffing around the clock for a volume that cannot pay for it. Hospitals keeping the lights on elsewhere are shutting maternity first, and the distances patients travel are becoming the clinical problem.

By Thomas Gutierrez · August 19, 2026