Walgreens has reached a $275,000 settlement with the state of Vermont over allegations that medication and vaccination errors and other alleged violations created unsafe conditions for patients and staff at the chain’s pharmacies across the state.
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What 3 CFOs are optimistic about in 2024
From using innovation to face challenges to moving into the “optimization stage,” here is what three health system CFOs recently told Becker’s they are most optimistic about in 2024:
Does CMS' REH model make sense? 1 New York hospital CEO is finding out
Clifton-Fine Hospital, a 20-bed critical access facility operating at a $2.7 million annual loss, is getting ready to submit an application to the New York State Department of Health, seeking approval to transition to a rural emergency hospital.
What Taylor Swift and a health system have in common
It’s not just Taylor Swift getting camera time during Kansas City Chiefs playoff games.
MLB could get 1st stadium named for health system
Health system names have been showing up on MLB jerseys and NHL helmets, but never before has one adorned the name of a stadium in one of the Big Four sports leagues. That could soon change.
Mass General Brigham executive to head to Rush
Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and executive vice president at Mass General Brigham, will leave his role in the Boston area to accept a new role in Chicago.
Northwestern U physicians begin unionization vote
Resident physicians and fellows at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, which is on the university’s Chicago campus, have begun voting on whether to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, a local of the Service Employees International…
Henry Ford continues to 'push the envelope': CFO talks Ascension project, 2024 plans
Calling 2023 a “wow kind of year,” Robin Damschroder, CFO of Detroit-based Henry Ford Health, said the health system has made progress despite industry challenges such as inflation.
Medical devicemaker worker sentenced for forging FDA approvals
After pleading guilty to forging two FDA clearance letters, a former employee of a medical device company was sentenced to one year of prison, the Justice Department said Jan. 24.
Popular cough syrup recalled over contamination
Haleon, the maker of Robitussin, has issued a voluntary recall of eight lots of three varieties of its cough medicines due to microbial contamination.
