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

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  - This is Scott Becker with the Beckers Health
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  - Care Podcast.
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  - We're gonna discuss this morning
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  - five or six stories that were found in
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  - health care,
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  - and then they give a sense of some
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  - of the things that are happening in health
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  - care. And thank you for listening. First, there's
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  - a story reported by Madeline Sheets, Madeline Ashley
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  - Sheets, on 15 maternity services closures in 2026
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  - so far. This is, of course, a lot
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  - about just not being able to staff these
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  - well and and and a little bit scary
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  - for those communities that will have less maternity
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  - services.
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  - Second, a story by Jacob Emerson about Dignity
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  - Health, bling off a 139
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  - workers across two California hospitals. Again, aside of
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  - the times is sort of you end up
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  - with more and more stress on the finances
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  - of hospitals.
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  - A third story written today by Andrew Kias
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  - talks about how over the last
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  - fifteen years or so,
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  - a 150
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  - rural hospitals have closed and also discusses what
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  - it takes to stay open.
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  - Fourth and fifth, just a couple stories coming
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  - out of Epic.
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  - A story about how Judy Faulkner,
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  - the remarkable CEO and leader of Epic,
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  - has kept Epic best in class for a
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  - sixteenth straight year and the remarkable work that
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  - she's done there. That was authored by Naomi
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  - Diaz at Becker's HealthCare.
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  - And finally, a story about the epic president,
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  - Sumit Rana, stepping down. Again, Epic has had
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  - this
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  - crazily remarkable
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  - run, and these are five of the stories
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  - that we're following today in health care. There's
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  - so much more. We cited service differentials, which
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  - we'll talk about in a separate podcast, three
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  - forty p discussions, which we'll also talk about
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  - in a separate podcast. So so much going
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  - on, but we thought we'd touch on at
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  - least these five this morning for our listeners.
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  - Thank you for listening to the Becker's Healthcare
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  - podcast.
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  - We we love our audience. We are so
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  - thankful for you. God bless you every day.
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  - Thank you.