Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD, will step down from his role as president of Stanford (Calif.) University on Aug. 31 amid scrutiny of his past research projects.
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3 health systems rolling out virtual nursing
Hospitals and health systems are increasingly turning to virtual nursing as a way to combat the nursing workforce shortage. Here are three hospitals and health systems who are expanding or launching virtual nursing programs:
3 hospital-developed AI innovations to monitor
Artificial intelligence-enabled platforms are raising eyebrows in hospitals throughout the country, teasing diagnostic and treatment innovations that are just down the pike.
CHS EBITDA dips 18.1% amid labor, payer challenges
Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, the third-largest for-profit system, saw its EBITDA fall by 18.1 percent to $335 million in the first quarter as salaries and benefits as a share of revenue increased by 1.3 percentage points, according t…
Former Beth Israel finance leader joins Sonrava Health
Steven Collins, a former finance leader for Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health has been named senior vice president of financial planning and analysis for Sonrava Health, a dental support organization.
MemorialCare taps ambulatory enterprise CEO
Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare has named David Kim, MD, CEO of MemorialCare Medical Foundation — which encompasses the enterprise’s medical group, Greater Newport Physicians and more than 200 outpatient care centers — and executive vice pre…
HCA, Tenet EBITDA rises as labor costs cool
Some for-profit health systems, such as Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare — the two largest — have seen improved EBITDA in the first quarter as salary and benefit obligations softened, according to Moody’s “Healthc…
HCA Florida hospital names CEO
Cory Mead was named CEO of HCA Florida Woodmont Hospital in Tamarac, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare.
An absurd data gap in healthcare
There are no national estimates of physician turnover, which makes one new assessment of the rate at which physicians left their practices over a decade noteworthy.
Children's Hospital Colorado halts transgender surgeries on young adults
Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora has stopped performing gender-affirming surgeries on patients over the age of 18 and removed references to such care from its website, The Denver Post reported July 18.
