Dallas-based Steward Health Care received a bid from Insight Health Systems of Flint, Mich., to acquire all of its Massachusetts hospitals prior to the health system sharing plans to close two state hospitals, The Boston Globe reported Aug. 5; however,…
Matt Hasbrouck, CEO of Memorial Health Meadows Hospital in Vidalia, Ga., has accepted a new role as CEO of St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, according to a hospital post on LinkedIn. Both hospitals are part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare…
Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, formed from the merger of Advocate Aurora Health, dually headquartered in Milwaukee and Downers Grove, Ill., and Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health, has embarked on a journey of data integration to ensure seamles…
As the number of Medicare Advantage enrollees has grown, so has the volume of prior authorization requests submitted to MA insurers.
The United Network for Organ Sharing pediatric transplant list does not rank patients by medical need, according to a study published Aug. 5 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Shamiq Syed has been appointed CFO of Bayonne, N.J.-based CarePoint Health System, according to Mr. Syed’s LinkedIn post.
Hospital or health system leaders have many traits in common, and some have abilities that set them apart. For example, David Herman, MD, CEO of Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health, swears by the power nap.
Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health is spending more than $2 billion to develop two facilities to replace its existing Inova Alexandria (Va.) Hospital.
Rogers-based Mercy Northwest Arkansas received a $5 million gift from the Walmart Foundation to expand the hospital, including building a new interventional radiology suite.
Editor’s note: This letter to the editor is in response to the article, “The Miseducation of America’s Nurse Practitioners,” published by Bloomberg. It has been lightly edited.
