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6 ways systems find CEO successors

CEO exits are at a 21-year high. Coupled with a substantial number of executive retirements, many hospitals and health systems are looking to select their next in line. 

Rady Children's breaks ground on $1B expansion

Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego broke ground on a seven-story, 500,000-square-foot patient care tower Aug. 29.

2 hospitals combining CFO, COO roles

Two hospitals recently combined CFO and COO roles: 

Tenet hospital names chief strategy officer

Johann Ramirez was named chief strategy officer of Doctors Medical Center and Central Valley Doctors Health System in Modesto, Calif., part of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare.

The Florida health system competing with tourism — and still winning workers

The inability to attract and retain workers is a top concern of most healthcare executives. But leadership at Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System isn’t biting nails; it’s currently experiencing its lowest employee turnover rate in the last…

Amazon Clinic adds virtual primary care company to marketplace

AI-powered virtual primary care company Curai Health has been added to Amazon Clinic’s virtual healthcare marketplace, allowing patients to go through a message-based platform to reach clinicians. 

Boomers & Gen Z can agree on job dissatisfaction

Gen Zers and millennials are least satisfied at work, but Gen Xers and baby boomers aren’t overjoyed with their jobs, either, according to an Aug. 28 report from Forbes Advisor. 

Tennessee health systems partner on employer-sponsored health plan

The University of (Knoxville) Tennessee Medical Center, Clarksville, Tenn.-based Tennova Healthcare and Chicago-based Summit Medical Group are partnering on a new employer-sponsored health plan called the East Tennessee Health Plan.

Epic's sepsis model less timely, study finds

EHR vendor Epic’s sepsis prediction model was found to be more accurate than other models at higher threshold prediction, but was found to have missed a higher share of true cases and was less timely than other existing sepsis tools, an Aug. 25 study p…

Erlanger taps specialty pharmacy partner

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System partnered with Shields Health Solutions, a specialty pharmacy business owned by Walgreens, to build a new specialty pharmacy program.