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Georgia hospital names administrator

Casey Fleckenstein, BSN, RN, was appointed administrator for Monroe County Hospital in Forsyth, Ga., according to a statement from Kerry Trapnell, chief administrative officer of Aletheia Health Partners, management company for MCH. 

4 healthcare HR trends to watch in the next 5 years

Talent and technology availabilities are two of the most significant challenges in healthcare recruitment and retention today, according to Amy Beales, chief human resources officer at Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health.

Baptist Health hospital creates foundation

Baptist Health La Grange (Ky.), a 90-bed hospital, will establish a new foundation in summer 2025.

A ‘Mecca’ for robotic heart surgery: How Baptist Health South Florida is scaling up

“It’s kind of like that quote in “Field of Dreams,” ‘If you build it, they will come,'” Tom Nguyen, MD, told Becker’s of the robotic cardiac surgery program at the Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute. “It’s pretty clear that we built it a…

Democratic PAC aims to elect 100 new physicians

314 Action, a political action committee focused on recruiting and electing Democrats with a science background to public office, launched a new campaign to elect 100 new physicians to office by 2030 on Feb. 28. 

CVS Health to lay off 183

CVS Health has shared plans to lay off 183 employees May 3 at its Wellesley, Mass., location, according to a WARN notice filed Feb. 28.

Is nurse continuity necessary in NICUs?

The continuity of nursing care in ICUs is typically thought to improve patient outcomes, but a recent Penn Nursing-led study challenges this assumption. 

Allow pharmacists to prescribe some controlled substances: ASHP to DEA

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and other pharmacy organizations have called on the Drug Enforcement Administration to update its registration process to align with state laws that grant pharmacists prescriptive authority over control…

HCA urged to boost staffing at Mission Health after patient death

A coalition of clinicians, elected officials and community advocates is urging HCA Healthcare to increase staffing levels at Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital following a patient death that occurred in an emergency department bathroom in February….

VA Oracle Health EHR outage affects 6 medical centers

The Spokane (Wash.) VA Medical Center experienced an outage of its Oracle Health EHR system on March 4, prompting an investigation into the cause of the disruption, KHQ reported.