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Ohio system shakes up leadership

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. 

The biggest leadership 'don'ts' from 13 hospital execs

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…

How Houston Methodist is seeing payoff from virtual nursing

Houston Methodist is using virtual nursing tools to free up nurses to do more patient-facing work.

Where COVID-19 admissions are highest, rising fastest

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. 

Hackensack Meridian CEO to chair World Economic Forum panel

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.

Memorial Healthcare's former chief medical officer joins startup 

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.

Former marketing director who allegedly hid guns at hospital enters diversion program

The former marketing director of a New Jersey hospital who was arrested last year after police found more than three dozen guns hidden inside an unlocked closet at the hospital has entered a pretrial diversion program, according to the Hudson County pr…

3 Epic, AI partnerships

Epic is now offering both voice assistant-based artificial intelligence and generative AI within its EHR offerings.

The next billion-dollar healthcare startups, per Forbes

Of the 50,000 venture capital-backed startups in the U.S., Forbes predicts that four specializing in healthcare will one day be valued at $1 billion or more.

Dignity Health hospital workers to receive 18% raises

Members of the Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union have approved a new contract with Glendale (Calif.) Memorial Hospital and Health Center, part of San Francisco-based Dignity Health.