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Scott Becker - 7 Healthcare News Stories We Are Following Today 1-21-26 · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

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  This is Scott Becker with the Beckers Healthcare
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  Podcast,
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  and these are seven stories that we're following
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  today that help to tell the picture and
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  story of what's happening in health care. And
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  thank you for listening.
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  The first two stories deal with nurses and
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  strikes in union activity,
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  and we see a lot of that throughout
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  the health care ecosystem.
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  The first thing is 30,000
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  Kaiser Permanente nurses give strike notice.
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  This creates tremendous stress for systems,
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  and, obviously,
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  the nurses feel like they've got a very
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  good point as well.
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  Second, on the same lines, New York City
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  nurses strike enters day four. This was a
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  couple days ago at the time we listened
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  to this. So we'll see how that's moving
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  forward. But, again, a sign of the times
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  is the challenges with margins and challenges in
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  health care.
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  So nobody really winning, health system struggling, and
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  and nurses upset about paying compensation.
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  The third story we're following is and what
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  Jefferies at Becker's Health Care outlines
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  the biggest IT risks facing health systems 2026.
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  This continues to be a hot button issue
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  throughout health care.
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  The fourth story we're following today,
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  Sutter Health breaks ground on a 380,000,000
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  cancer center.
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  Increasingly health systems are putting their money and
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  dollars
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  back into the biggest specialties
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  that are both very important and also drive
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  revenues and profits. So we're seeing more and
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  more building
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  around cancer centers,
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  orthopedics,
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  cardiovascular,
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  and, again, cardiology
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  and oncology,
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  cancer and heart disease remain the two biggest
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  killers, the two highest mortality rates in the
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  country.
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  And and not surprisingly, they're also big dollar
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  specialties, so we see more and more health
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  systems like Sutter Health putting money into orthopedics,
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  oncology, and and cardiovascular.
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  Fifth story we're following today, story of a
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  rural hospital in Washington
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  that's on a road map to recovery, one
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  that had been close to closure, trying to
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  get better and better.
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  That's the East Adams Rural Hospital, and a
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  constant challenge out there for rural and smaller
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  health systems. They're working hard to get themselves
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  back in the right spot. That's,
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  this story that we're following today.
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  Sixth story, a sign of the times,
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  more and more focus on physician leadership and
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  physician executives.
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  University of Miami Medicine
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  starts to offer a physician only executive education
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  program.
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  Facing to see this focus on great physician
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  leaders.
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  And finally, a seventh story that we're following
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  today,
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  great leadership at a hospital in New Mexico
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  where they've built out a physician first culture
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  that's driving workforce wins at their hospital.
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  And this deals with the Three Crosses Regional
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  Hospital in New Mexico. And, again, fascinating to
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  see the work done by leadership there, doctor
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  Mohammed Khan, and more
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  are
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  trying to focus on physician leadership and a
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  great culture for physicians.
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  Again, these are seven stories that we're following
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  today at Becker's Healthcare. We hope you find
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  this helpful, and we are so thankful for
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  you listening to the Becker's Healthcare podcast. Thank
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  you very, very much.