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Lurie Children’s receives $25M donation for health and wellness initiative

Chicago-based Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital has been gifted $25 million on behalf of Kathleen and John Schreiber. 

Oracle sells $7B in debt to fund Cerner deal; Fitch downgrades credit rating

Oracle has sold $7 billion in debt to fund its purchase of Cerner, Bloomberg reported Nov. 7, after which Fitch Ratings downgraded the company’s credit rating.

New Hackensack surgical tower ‘most technologically advanced’ in US, CEO says

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health is finishing up a new $714 million surgical tower its chief executive says is the “newest, most technologically advanced” in the nation, NJBIZ reported Nov. 7.

Columbia U, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital name critical care chief

Dr. Hülya Bayır has been named chief of the division of critical care and hospital medicine for the pediatrics department at New York City-based Columbia University’s college of physicians and surgeons, as well as for Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital…

5 hospital, health system CIO moves

The following are five hospitals and health systems who have recently appointed new CIOs or have CIOs with new, additional positions:

Mount Sinai posts broad salary ranges under NYC’s new transparency law

Mount Sinai Health System is based in New York City, which subjects it to the city’s new salary transparency law. The health system has updated its job postings to comply — and its pay ranges are particularly broad, The Wall Street Journal reported Nov…

Allegheny CEO gets new title: ‘chief living health development officer’

Cynthia Hundorfean, president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network, has been given a new title: chief living health development officer. 

The pitfalls of the ‘glass cliff’ for women of color in leadership

When women of color are selected for high-level leadership positions, hidden expectations are often placed upon them — and they tend to be unrealistic, according to a Nov. 6 article published in Fortune. 

4 health measures on the Nov. 8 ballot

Voters nationwide are heading to the midterm polls Nov. 8. Several states have healthcare referendums on the ballot.

HCA Virginia hospital closes NICU

Richmond, Va.-based Chippenham Hospital closed its neonatal intensive care unit Nov. 1, Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Nov. 4.