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Scott Becker - 7 Healthcare News Stories We Are Following Today 1-21-26
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A special thank you to ECG Management Consultants. ECG has been working exclusively with healthcare organizations for more than 50 years. ECG offers a comprehensive range of services spanning the entire healthcare ecosystem. ECG's roots in contracting and reimbursement run especially deep. Their payer strategy experts have worked in all 50 states and have built relationships with every national and regional healthcare plan. They recognize the issues that matter the most to both providers and insurers and understand the unique market dynamics impacting provider reimbursement. ECG asks the tough questions and tells clients what they need to hear, not just what they want to hear. To learn more about ECG, visit ecgmc.com and thank you for listening to the Beckers Healthcare Podcast. Thank you to ECG Management Consultants. This is Scott Becker with the Becker's Healthcare Podcast and these are seven stories that we're following today that help to tell the picture and story of what's happening in healthcare. And thank you for listening. The first two stories deal with nurses and strikes in union activity. And we're seeing a lot of that throughout the healthcare ecosystem. The first thing is 30,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses give strike notice. This creates tremendous stress for systems and obviously the nurses feel like they've got a very good point as well. Second, along the same lines, New York City nurses strike enters day four. This was a couple days ago by the time you listened to this, so we'll see how that's moving forward. But again, a sign of the times is the challenges with margins and challenges in healthcare so nobody really winning. Health system struggling and nurses upset about pay and compensation. The third story we're following is Ella Jeffries at Becker's Healthcare outlines the biggest IT risks facing health systems 2026. This continues to be a hot button issue throughout health care. The fourth story we're following today, Sutter Health breaks ground on a $380 million cancer center. Increasingly, health systems are putting their money and dollars back into the biggest specialties that are both very important and also drive revenues and profits. So we're seeing more and more building around cancer centers, orthopedics, cardiovascular, and again, cardiology and oncology. Cancer and heart disease mean the two biggest killers, the two highest mortality rates in the country. And not surprisingly, they're also big dollar specialties. So we see more and more health systems like Sutter Health putting money into orthopedics, oncology and cardiovascular. Fifth story following today. Story of a rural hospital in Washington that's on a roadmap to recovery, one that had been close to closure trying to get better and better. That's the East Adams Rural Hospital and a constant challenge out there for rural and smaller health systems. They're working hard to get themselves back in the right spot. That's the story that we're following today. Six story A sign of the times More and more focus on physician leadership and physician executives. University of Miami Medicine starts to offer a physician only executive education program. Fascinating to see this focus on great physician leaders. And finally, a seventh story that we're following today. Great leadership at a hospital in New Mexico where they've built out a physician first culture that that's driving workforce wins at their hospital. And this deals with the Three Crosses Regional Hospital in New Mexico. And again, fascinating to see the work done by leadership there. Dr. Mohammed Khan and more are trying focus on physician leadership and a great culture for physicians. Again, these are seven stories that we're following today at Beckers Healthcare. We hope you find this helpful and we are so thankful for you listening to the Beckers Healthcare podcast. Thank you very, very much.