Healthgrades named the recipients of its 2023 Specialty Excellence Awards on Oct. 25, and the list includes the top hospitals for cardiac care.
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Dr. Barry Zaret, founder of nuclear cardiology, dies at 82
Barry Zaret, MD, widely considered the founder of nuclear cardiology, passed away Oct. 20 at the age of 82, Yale School of Medicine said in a release.
What a Texas hospital CEO did to ‘immediately and significantly’ improve financial performance
Tom Siemers, CEO of Wilbarger General Hospital in Vernon, Texas, started an orthopedic surgery program over the last year, and the new service quickly improved the hospital’s bottom line.
Kids make up a third of flu hospitalizations: CDC
Hospitals are already seeing predictions of a severe flu season unfold, with 1,674 flu patients admitted to hospitals nationwide for the week ending Oct. 14. Kids account for more than 30 percent of flu hospitalizations, the CDC told NBC News in an Oct…
Omicron boosters aren’t better than original vaccine for BA.5, early study suggests
The newly authorized bivalent, omicron-focused boosters elicited a response similar to the fourth dose of the original COVID-19 vaccine formula, according to a preprint study posted Oct. 24.
COVID-19 surges linked with spike in heart attacks, Cedars-Sinai finds
Data analysis from the Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai found heart attack deaths rose significantly with COVID-19 surges, including omicron surges.
Sharp HealthCare consolidates hospital execs
San Diego, Calif.-based Sharp HealthCare is reorganizing executive leadership for its seven hospitals — a move that is not expected to result in layoffs or affect front-line workers, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Oct. 25.
MemorialCare makes senior executive moves in California
Long Beach, Calif.-based MemorialCare has internally promoted three executives to align with the hospital group’s future strategic plans, which include regional growth in pediatrics and advancing what it calls its position as the region’s leader in h…
MUSC Health, MetroHealth launch virtual, in-home care company
Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina Health and Cleveland-based MetroHealth System have joined forces to create a nonprofit virtual and in-home care company called Ovatient.
Congress can take action to help healthcare deal with ‘crushing’ financial challenges, AHA urges
With hospitals and health systems facing what it calls “crushing financial challenges,” industry group the American Hospital Association is urging Congress to pass immediate legislation and take steps to ease such burdens.
