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Again, this is Scott Becker with the Becker's Healthcare Podcast. These are six of the stories that we're following this week. And so notwithstanding it be generally feeling like a tough week and month in health care as we watch federal reimbursement challenges, Medicaid potential cuts, and a lot more. Overall, some positive news this week. So so that's great to see.

First, though, we're following University of Utah CFO talks about meeting demands in health care, and trying to hit both clinical partnerships and doing the same amount of stuff with the same footprint, doing more with the same footprint. And one of the stores you're seeing in health care currently is meeting demand, systems stretching to meet demand, volumes going up, but revenue is not really rising. And there's a story about that in today's Becker's health care digital edition. They talk about their growing to meet community needs within their existing footprint, and that's the story at at University of Utah. Second, Beth Israel Leahy slashes operating losses in q one.

That's a good sign out of a really well run system, Beth Israel Leahy. I was thrilled last year to give a a a talk at one of their health systems thanks to Ian L. Campbell. What a great system and a great pleasure. The system as a whole has total operating revenue of about 2,400,000,000.0, up from 2,200,000,000.0 a year ago, and and sort of moving in the right direction.

Third, six health systems with boosted outlooks. That's always a good story to see. This story, which is not exhaustive, included NuViance, Rex Health, Kettering, Tampa General Hospital ran by TGA, ran by John Kors, Tex Texas Medical Center, and UCHealth. Just again, good to see some health systems with better outlooks. Fourth, a great story on what systems should ditch media metric metric madness.

And this is the concept of watching every single step that a physician does to drive that physician crazy. Maria Taylor Mariah Taylor in the AME have a great story on why you shouldn't overdo this because you're just gonna drive your physicians crazy and lead to more burnout. Out. And I think that's right. If you keep performance metrics, sure, but don't drive your people crazy.

Fifth, great discussion on a program by Ascension called Recognize and Rescue and how they're cutting mortality of your system. Ascension gets better and better, quite frankly. It's a not for profit system. It's working and getting better and better. Erica Carbajal from Becker's Health reports on this.

Finally, sixth, how Anova built a culture of safety in one. This is a story about doctor Steven Jones, They know of a system, how it really grew to embrace and be great at clinical excellence. Again, doctor Jones is one of the great leaders in the country, so no surprise at their success. Those are six of the stories that we're following today, and glad to see some systems with boosted financial outlooks. That's always good to see.

Also just quickly note, we just signed up Caitlin Clark to speak at the Becker CEO CFO roundtable this coming fall. We're also hoping for a commitment from the great one to speak. Those that fall hockey know who the great one is. Thank you for listening to the Becker's Healthcare podcast. Thank you very much.