Hazard, Ky.-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare has named Byron Gabbard CFO.
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Quality goes hand-in-hand with ROI, chief quality officers say
Aligning a hospital’s financial goals with its quality standards is the key to delivering results for future chief quality officers, experts remarked during an Oct. 19 panel held by the National Association for Healthcare Quality.
Cyberattack on 2 New York hospitals forces ambulance diversions
Kingston, N.Y.-based HealthAlliance Hospital and Margaretville (N.Y.) Hospital were hit by a cyberattack that has caused the temporary diversion of ambulances at HealthAlliance.
New York system consolidates roles
Olean, N.Y.-based Upper Allegheny Health System has consolidated seven positions and expanded roles to “adapt to the current climate and organizational needs,” a spokesperson for the system told the Olean Times Herald.
Intermountain Health names new CFO
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has named Clay Ashdown as its new CFO.
Nurses tangled in degree scheme still fighting for licenses
Hundreds of nurses who have asserted their innocence in the national degree scheme are still fighting to win back their licenses.
Prime hospital plan would violate state staffing ratios, union says
Members of the Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union and the California Nurses Association say Prime Healthcare’s Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, Calif., has proposed a new staffing plan that would violate the state’s staffing ratio law …
6 healthcare orgs push back on parts of new CMS sepsis rule
Six of the nation’s leading healthcare associations have penned new recommendations on sepsis care to CMS on behalf of U.S. hospitals, which face the loss of federal funding if they fail to meet new benchmarks.
Shuttered Texas hospital may get 2nd chance
St. Mark’s Medical Center in La Grange, Texas, shuttered on Oct. 12 — not for a lack of trying.
Alaska hospital reinstates former CFO
Joe Wanner is returning to Bartlett Regional Hospital as CFO, effective Nov. 15.
