UnitedHealth Group (UHG) (NYSE: UNH) CEO Stephen Hemsley expressed optimism despite a set-up with the company's health services division, reaffirming its commitment to reform following the company's “mistakes” during the insurance giant's second-quarter revenue call on Tuesday. The company has also reaffirmed its plans to acquire Amedisys (NASDAQ:AMED). Despite numerous challenges over the past year, the company reported revenue of $111.6 billion in second quarter, representing an increase of $12.8 billion compared to the previous year. The company attributes this increase to the growth of UnitedHealthcare and Optum. UHG suspended its 2025 outlook in May, but has now updated its…
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This article is part of the HHCN+ membership As patients remain hospitalized, the home care landscape is evolving rapidly as they often have more complex and keen needs as they leave the hospital faster. This shift is changing the dynamic shape between non-health home health and home health services. Providers respond to increasing pressures to diversify the challenges in the way two industries collaborate and navigate the challenges. These changing tides have also led some companies to consider diverging through service lines or acquisitions, while others have doubled their collaboration with complementary service providers. “There are actually two different approaches,”…
Data on the specific experiences of nurses originally from the Philippines will be collected as part of annual NHS research on staffing for the first time this year. Filipino nurses and other healthcare workers will have their own distinct ethnicity option in the 2025 NHS Staff Survey, it has been revealed. Daniel Collard, registered midwife and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) mandated standards specialist at NHS England, announced the move on social media this week. The addition of the new option has subsequently been confirmed in the changelog documentation for the 2025 survey. Previously, when asked for their ethnicity, people…
Dallas – (Business Wire) – July 30, 2025 -Qualizeal Inc., the world's fastest growing quality engineering (QE) services company, has announced it has been appointed to the business advisory board for the well-known healthcare industry visionary Aiman Abdel-Malek. This strategic move aims to leverage Dr. Abdelmalek's transformational leadership experience in the healthcare, life sciences and medical device sectors to strengthen Qualizeal's position as a leader in the enterprise digital transformation environment.KAM%9:D AC6DD C6 = 62D6 762EFC6D>F = E: > 65:2)':6H E96 7F == C6 = 62D6 96C6I K2 9c67lq9eeadi ^^ hhh)3fd:? 6ddh:c6)4@>^? 6hd^9@> 6^a_ad_fah`e`_db^6? ^q c6 = lq? @7@==@hqm9eeadi ^^…
The latest Skills for Care report entitled ‘Size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in England’, revealing the return of social care vacancy rates to pre-COVID levels has generated significant response from industry leaders, highlighting both cautious optimism and persistent concerns about the sector’s long-term sustainability. While acknowledging the positive trajectory, sector chiefs have emphasized that the improvement masks deeper structural challenges that require urgent government intervention. Oonagh Smyth, Chief Executive Officer at Skills for Care, cautioned against complacency, noting that “while the vacancy rate in social care has reduced, it’s still three times that of…
HealthTech Company is already tackling care contradictions in more than 100 hospitals US new york, July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -C8 Health, Healthcare for Best Practices Implementation Platform, Announced today $12 million Participated from the Series A funding round led by Team 8, 10D and Vertex Ventures Israel. The round will provide total funding for C8 $18 millionincluding a $6 million A seed round led by Vertex Ventures Israel and 10d. Conflicts in care have a negative effect on patient outcomes and explanations $345 billion Annual waste in the United States alone. Care best practices may already be documented and stored,…
Ryan Cameron, hospital vice president of technology and innovation, says healthcare understands empathy, but consumers can expand, but empathy is problematic. Putting these two together can mean big things. The concept, which has been used in the gaming industry for decades, helps pediatric surgeons understand exactly what they do before picking up a scalpel.It's happening in Nebraska for kids. In a partnership with Insight Surgery, the 231-bed Omaha-based Children's Hospital will develop a 3D-based, individual surgical plan and amputation guide to enable clinicians to see how each step of the surgical procedure is performed. The first use case allowed orthopedic…
Members of Unite, a public sector union representing nurses among a range of staff groups, have voted to reject an 3.6% NHS pay rise. With a majority of 89%, Unite’s consultative ballot of members overwhelmingly voted against the 2025-26 Agenda for Change pay offer, which was issued to NHS staff in England, Wales an Northern Ireland. “The NHS can’t be repaired while the government continues to erode pay and drastically cut NHS budgets” Sharon Graham Unite, which has not revealed the vote turnout, now joins the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), the GMB and the Welsh branch of the Royal…
This article is part of the HHCN+ membership The Trump administration's immigration crackdown has urged care providers at home-based caregivers, fearing that changing policies for migrant workers could lead to intrinsic staff losses, and providers are beginning to realize these threats. In early July, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notified Honor CEO Seth Sternberg that some of its employees could be revoked. “Given the notification from DHS, we will begin to reaffirm the eligibility of current employees who have already been verified and are permitted to work,” Sternberg told Home Health Care News. “If an employee's approval is…
As of 2025, more than half of eligible beneficiaries are registered in the Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, according to the new KFF report. As MA penetration increases, home health providers are struggling to grow or maintain, and MA growth is expected to continue. According to the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee (MEDPAC), registration for an MA plan impacts federal spending. In 2025, per-person payments will rise by 20%, adding $84 billion to federal spending. This is a significant increase from the $18 billion spent in 2015 when about a third of eligible beneficiaries joined the MA plan, according to the report.…