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NRC (NRC), through The Governance Institute, released a report titled The Governance Advantage: Four Considerations for Hospital and Health System Board Assessment, outlining a new framework for evaluating and developing hospital and health system boards.
The Blue Ribbon Committee highlights four considerations: treating effective governance as a strategic advantage, ensuring assessments drive continuous board improvement, building trustee fluency through “education, experience, and exposure,” and aligning governance with the “Great Governance Migration” as systems consolidate across regions and states. The report urges boards to assess the governance they will need for future, more volatile operating conditions and to focus on better, not more, governance.
NRC Health (NRC) announced that its NRC Health Rounding solution received a 91.6 Overall Performance Score in a new KLAS Research First Look report. The evaluation, based on interviews with 11 healthcare leaders, highlights strengths in partnership, support, implementation, configuration flexibility, and usability.
The report notes A grades for partnership, likelihood to recommend, willingness to buy again, and solution capabilities. Healthcare leaders cited centralized rounding workflows and a strategic partnership approach as key benefits. NRC Health is also adding ambient listening with agentic AI to further support rounding documentation and follow-through.
NRC Health (NRC) announced its 2026 awards program winners, honoring hospitals, health systems, medical groups, and specialty providers for excellence in patient experience, experience management, consumer loyalty, innovation, and brand performance. New awards include the Innovation Co-Design and Best in Brand categories. Honorees will be recognized at HUB26 in Nashville on September 2, 2026.
Mercy has received the 2026 NRC Health Excellence in Patient Experience Award, its fifth consecutive year earning this national recognition. The honor is based on real-time patient feedback and willingness to recommend, with more than 1.25 million Mercy patient encounters annually contributing through its partnership with NRC Health (NYSE:NRC). Mercy is one of only three large U.S. health systems, among those with at least 25 hospitals, to be recognized for the April 1, 2025–March 31, 2026 period.
NRC Health (NASDAQ:NRC) released new nSight research, “The Currency of Time: Easy Access to Care Isn’t Enough to Earn Patient Loyalty,” showing that confidence, trust, and clear communication have a stronger association with patient loyalty than access speed alone.
The analysis combines nationally syndicated consumer research with feedback from tens of millions of patients across hundreds of organizations. Findings include loyalty dropping from 98% with no friction to 58% when issues occur before, during, and after care, and that 59% of older consumers reported no access barriers versus 37% of Gen Z and Millennials. NRC Health will host a national webcast on August 18 to discuss the results.
NRC Health (NASDAQ: NRC) reported second quarter 2026 results with Total Recurring Contract Value (TRCV) of $151.9 million, up 11% year-over-year, and revenue of $35.4 million, an increase of 4% from the prior-year quarter.
The company reported a GAAP net loss of $3.3 million (–9% margin), or ($0.15) per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $0.1 million a year earlier. Adjusted net income was $6.9 million (19% of revenue), and Adjusted EBITDA was $9.4 million (27% margin). Operating cash flow totaled $1.4 million, with Free cash flow of $0.1 million, reflecting approximately $2.9 million of cash payments tied to accelerated stock vesting and bonuses. On July 15, 2026, the board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per share, payable October 9, 2026, to shareholders of record on September 25, 2026.
NRC Health (NASDAQ:NRC) announced a strategic partnership with the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) to expand support for healthcare organizations seeking to improve patient experience, safety, and workforce engagement.
The collaboration combines NRC Health’s analytics and experience platform with HXF’s leadership and coaching programs, targeting areas such as enterprise alignment, care transitions, leadership rounding, safety culture, and clinician engagement. According to NRC Health, effective leadership rounding is associated with a 15–20-point increase in patient loyalty, while structured care transition programs have helped drive more than 30% improvement in readmission outcomes.
NRC (Nasdaq:NRC) announced that The Governance Institute has formed a Blue Ribbon Committee on Health System Governance. This multidisciplinary group of board leaders, clinicians, academics, advisors, and capital markets experts will convene in summer 2026 to update healthcare governance practices for complex not-for-profit health systems.
The Committee will focus on board design, integrated decision-making, performance expectations at enterprise scale, and improved information flow, and will help translate The Governance Institute’s Governance Trilogy framework into practical tools and board assessment approaches.
NRC Health (NRC) launched new ambient listening and agentic AI capabilities for leader rounding in healthcare settings. The system captures real-time conversations, generating AI summaries that document key topics, actions, and coaching opportunities while leaders stay present with patients and staff.
Early pilots show up to 60X more narrative detail, over 90% of rounds with context-rich documentation, and about 5X more comment data at some sites, supporting stronger analytics, follow-up, and patient experience.
NRC Health (NASDAQ: NRC) reported Q1 2026 results with total revenue $34.8M (up 4% YoY) and TRCV $152.1M (up 13% YoY, sixth consecutive sequential increase). GAAP net income was $3.2M (9% margin); adjusted EBITDA was $9.4M (27% margin). Cash flow from operations was $7.2M (21% of revenue). The board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per share, payable July 10, 2026 to holders of record June 26, 2026.