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White Plains Hospital plans major expansion
White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital, part of New York City-based Montefiore Health System, is expanding its facilities with a new 10-story, 475,000-square-foot addition.
FDA warns against California facility making compounded weight loss drugs
The FDA issued a warning to patients and healthcare professionals to refrain from using compounded drugs distributed by Ontario, Calif.-based Fullerton Wellness, expressing concerns about the sterility of the drugs following reports of contamination.&n…
Cedars-Sinai to put $20M into health equity initiatives
Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is handing out $20 million in grants to local nonprofits to promote health equity in homelessness and housing, access to care and community response, the health system confirmed to Becker’s.
Virtual nursing results at 8 systems: 24 stats to know
Faced with a shortage of nurses, a rise in high-acuity cases and an increase in labor spend, hospitals and health systems have turned to virtual nursing programs for solutions. Here are 24 statistics tied to virtual nursing models, according to Becker’…
MedStar expands in-home care to 4 hospitals
Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health is expanding its partnership with DispatchHealth to include four Baltimore hospitals.
Lehigh Valley breaks ground on 3rd micro-hospital: 4 things to know
Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network, part of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, broke ground Nov. 1 on its third neighborhood hospital.
Insight Health officially takes over 2 Steward Ohio hospitals
Flint, Mich.-based Insight Health System has officially taken over Trumbull Regional Medical Center and Hillside Rehabilitation hospital, both in Warren, Ohio, from Dallas-based Steward Health Care, a Nov. 4 Insight news release shared with Becker’s sa…
How Intermountain is helping shape this Microsoft tool
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health joined a collaboration with Microsoft, Epic and other health systems to enhance nursing workflows using ambient listening technology.
Maui Health workers begin strike: 6 things to know
The United Nurses and Health Care Employees of Hawaii, a chapter of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, began a three-day strike Nov. 4 at Maui Health facilities.
MaineHealth hospital president to join New York system
Bradley Chapman, president of MaineHealth Memorial Hospital in Conway, N.H., has accepted a new position as senior vice president and president of Upper Allegheny Health System, part of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health, according to The Conway Daily …
