California Health Worker Union, Hospital Association Tout Dueling Ballot Initiatives

The issue of affordability has reignited a long-simmering battle between California’s medical industry and one of its largest health worker unions.  SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, with approximately 120,000 members, has put forward two ballot initiatives to cap the pay of medical executives and require community clinics to spend the vast bulk of their revenues on…

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Crothall Healthcare Celebrates Hospital Partners Honored in 2026 Practice Greenhealth Awards

We are incredibly proud to celebrate our hospital partners who have been recognized in the 2026 Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards. Several of our partners were honored across multiple award categories, including the prestigious Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award list, the organization’s highest honor for hospitals.  At Compass Healthcare, sustainability is a core part of how we support our partners and our communities. These awards are more…

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Good News: Teen Pregnancies Hit New Low In the US

By MIKE MAGEE Last week, policy wonks from the right and the left, finally found a topic they could agree on – Kids are no longer having (as many) kids. Specifically, teen pregnancies dropped an additional 10% in the US in 2025. This is an acceleration of a trend which began two decades ago. Teen births…

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Abridge Goes Beyond Documentation: 4 Updates

Clinical AI startup Abridge held a New York City event to signal it’s done being thought of as just an AI scribe. The company announced a Nvidia foundation model partnership, an Eli Lilly investment, new capabilities for its platform, and the intent to help mediate the relationship between payers and providers. The post Abridge Goes…

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Oceans, Away

By KIM BELLARD It probably didn’t show up on your calendar, but Monday was World Ocean Day. It’s a day meant to catalyze “collective action for a healthy ocean and a stable climate,” and has been around since 2002 (although the U.N. didn’t officially recognize it until 2008). Its website claims a network of over…

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