{"id":9775,"date":"2022-10-17T19:36:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/ed-lovern-of-ascension-st-agnes-talks-covid-operation-challenges\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T19:36:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:36:36","slug":"ed-lovern-of-ascension-st-agnes-talks-covid-operation-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/ed-lovern-of-ascension-st-agnes-talks-covid-operation-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Lovern of Ascension St. Agnes talks COVID operation challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Two and a half years in to the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing shortages remain. Health systems are paying higher prices to secure workers. Supply costs are elevated and some service lines have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. As a result, many hospitals were operating in the red in the first half of 2022, with executives concerned about the financial ramifications when federal relief funding gives out.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Lovern, president and CEO of Ascension Saint Agnes, joins The Check Up to talk about the operating challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Not a Modern Healthcare subscriber? Sign up today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernhealthcare.com\/operations\/ed-lovern-ascension-saint-agnes-covid-staffing-shortage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two and a half years in to the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing shortages remain. Health systems are paying higher prices to secure workers. Supply costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}