The site of a $34 million medical office building in Westerfield, Iowa, has been approved as an economic revitalization area, Current reported Oct. 17.
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Covenant Health using digital interventions to help increase breast cancer screening
Knoxville, Tenn.-based Covenant Health partnered with digital health company Lirio to use digital interventions to increase mammography screenings.
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.
