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UVA Health bolsters global telehealth coverage
Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health is creating a telehealth clinic that will focus on medically underserved communities all over the world.
Independent Health CFO getting new title
Buffalo, N.Y.-based Independent Health’s president and CEO Michael Cropp, MD, will be passing his president title on to Jim Dunlop, the independent, nonprofit health system’s current executive vice president and CFO.
States, specialties with highest demand for travel nurses
California has the highest demand for travel nurses, and med-surg was the specialty in highest demand, according to a Nomad Health report.
Penn Medicine completes first successful pig liver experiment on donor
Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania researchers completed the first successful experiment of circulating a deceased donor’s blood through a genetically engineered pig liver.
Trinity hospital's plan to cut maternity care rejected
Connecticut’s office of health strategy has rejected Johnson Memorial Hospital’s proposal to close its labor and delivery unit, arguing that it would adversely affect the less wealthy, reduce access to care and not save patients money, CT Insider repor…
Arkansas system names interim CEO
LaDonna Johnston, RN, was named interim president and CEO of Searcy, Ark.-based Unity Health.
Cancer centers' masking approaches vary in wake of viruses' resurgence
This is the first year since the COVID-19 pandemic began that hospitals must independently decide if and how to implement masking, and cancer centers across the country are taking different approaches.
Nurses at Tenet hospital vote to unionize
Nurses at Framingham (Mass.) Union Hospital have voted to join the Massachusetts Nurses Association.
Nitrosamine measures might disrupt anesthetic supply, Dr. Eric Tichy says
Hospitals should start conserving supply of short-term anesthetics as drug manufacturers become more conservative with nitrosamine measures, according to Eric Tichy, PharmD.
Pharmacist becomes Philadelphia hospital CEO
Former health system pharmacy leader Shawn Parekh, PharmD, recently became CEO of a Philadelphia hospital.
