This week’s top stories include providers aiming to extend the public health emergency that ushered in waivers and flexibilities during the pandemic, and clinicians at DOD, Coast Guard and VA sites could not update medical information for hours.

UnitedHealth Group showed a slight year-to-year improvement in the first quarter of this year in posting a $5 billion profit, up from $4.9 billion in Q1 2021, according to the organization’s first quarter earnings report.

CFOs across industries are looking across their business to understand how inflation might impact their company’s financials, according to a survey of executives by asset management firm Mercer.  

Trinity Health Michigan, based in Livonia, will be rebranding eight hospitals and hundreds of care sites across the state, which will all adopt the Trinity Health name and logo.