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Top 10 community hospitals for heart care in 2023, per Fortune

Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center in Indianapolis has been named the top community hospital for heart care in 2023 by Fortune and healthcare improvement and technology company Premier. 

Spectrum Health to pay $6M to settle alleged ERISA violations

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health has agreed to pay $6 million to settle an alleged violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Pension and Investments reported March 20.

USPI's last 5 years: A recap

United Surgical Partners International became the largest ASC chain in the U.S. in 2022.

3 quantum computing, AI projects Cleveland Clinic, IBM have in the works

From using quantum computing to screen and optimize drugs, to using quantum-enhanced prediction models for cardiovascular disease, Cleveland Clinic and IBM’s 10-year Discovery Accelerator partnership is using artificial intelligence, quantum computing …

Women in healthcare need healthcare, too: How 1 CEO plans to improve access

Forty-five percent of women forgo preventive healthcare, according to a recent poll conducted by the Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention and Ipsos. Millicent Gorham hopes to see those numbers fall. 

Rush looks to build new $70M outpatient care facility

Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center will build a new $70 million, 60,000-square-foot outpatient facility at a former Sears site on the West Side, NBC Chicago reported March 21.

Bill Gates: 'We need a fire department for pandemics'

Governments around the world could stand to learn a thing or two from firefighters when it comes to preparing for infectious disease outbreaks, Bill Gates wrote in an op-ed published March 19 in The New York Times. 

Trinity Health taps regional CEO

Stonish Pierce was named president and CEO of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health’s Georgia Region, which includes Athens, Ga.-based St. Mary’s Health Care System and Mercy Care in Atlanta.

4 health systems launching, expanding home-based care programs

Here are four health systems that launched, expanded or announced plans to launch a “hospital-at-home” program:

No 'cookie-cutter' wellness apps: Why Providence, Prime Healthcare and Memorial Hermann built their own

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare developed its own proprietary mental health app at the outset of COVID-19 in early 2020, to fulfill a need hospital leadership saw during a “very dark time in healthcare.”