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Meta says advertising tool does not collect sensitive info from hospitals

Facebook parent company Meta says its Meta Pixel tracking tool, installed at 33 top hospitals and seven health systems’ websites and patient portals, does not collect sensitive information, GovInfo Security reported Oct. 25. 

Bon Secours breaks ground on $80M hospital with ASC

Bon Secours has broken ground on the new 98,000-square-foot Harbour View Hospital in Suffolk, Va., that will include 18 medical-surgical beds, four operating rooms and an ASC expansion, according to an Oct. 25 report from local news outlet 13NewsNow.&n…

Dr. Bodie Correll named chief medical officer of Seton Medical Center

Seton Medical Center in Harker Heights,Texas, named Bodie Correll, MD, chief medical officer, effective Nov. 1, the Killeen Daily Herald reported Oct. 25. 

HCA hospitals make 10 leadership changes

HCA Healthcare, a for-profit hospital operator based in Nashville, Tenn., has made leadership changes at several of its hospitals in recent months. 

Cleveland Clinic launches global quality improvement program

Cleveland Clinic is aiming to improve the quality of care delivered globally through a new program, the health system said Oct. 26. 

Breast cancer surgery isn’t necessary for everyone, study finds

MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers at the University of Texas in Houston found 62 percent of women with two types of early-stage breast cancer responded well to chemotherapy and could forgo surgery.

Penn Medicine opens 1st center for organ donors

Philadelphia, Pa.-based Gift of Life Donor Program and Penn Medicine have opened a first-of-its-kind donor care center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Colorado women’s clinic to outsource procedures to local ASC

The Women’s Clinic of Northern Colorado in Fort Collins will begin outsourcing procedures to Nadora Healthcare, a Johnstown-based ASC, according to an Oct. 25 report from the Loveland Reporter-Herald. 

ChristianaCare cancer center to close by end of year

Elkton, Md.-based ChristianaCare Radiation and Oncology Center at Union Hospital will close by the end of the year, Cecil Whig reported Oct. 25.

IU Health to develop cybersecurity lab for medical devices

Indianapolis-based IU Health is developing a cybersecurity lab to test medical device security.