Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has agreed to acquire Geisinger Health, a 12-hospital system headquartered in Danville, Pa., in a deal that would see Geisinger be the first to join Risant Health, a nonprofit launched by Kaiser Foundation Hospit…
CMS is launching a new primary care model aimed at reducing costs and provide integrated care, according to an Aug. 14 report.
Charleston, S.C.-based Trident Medical Center is looking to build a $277 million hospital on Johns Island, S.C., local news outlet WCBD reported Aug. 17.
Patients who experience pain one year after a heart attack may be more likely to die within the next eight years, according to a study published Aug. 16 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Kettering (Ohio) Health has made a series of leadership moves that come a little more than a month after new CEO Michael Gentry took the helm, the Dayton Daily News reported Aug. 16.
Sitting behind a desk all day — except when you are in seemingly never-ending meetings — is one way to make sure hospital leaders never see anything but a bird’s-eye view of their operations. Failure to connect with your team is not only one way to gua…
Houston Methodist is using virtual nursing tools to free up nurses to do more patient-facing work.
More than 10,000 people in the U.S. were hospitalized with COVID-19 for the week ending Aug. 5, up 14.3 percent from the previous week and marking the fourth straight week of increase.
Robert Garrett, CEO of Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health, has been named chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Health and Healthcare Governor’s Community.
Marc Napp, MD, former chief medical officer of Memorial Healthcare System, has been named CEO of the Trajectories Company, a system and process design firm.
