UPMC’s division in Central Pennsylvania is actively working to transfer patients to its kidney and liver transplant programs after Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center announced it is ending those transplant services.
Sissel Jacob has been named president and CEO of AdventHealth Lenexa (Kan.) City Center, part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth, effective July 29.
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine successfully performed a double lung transplant using a new technique in a 56-year-old patient who had been diagnosed with lung cancer and had additional lung damage from a COVID-19 infection.
Becker’s regular series of conversations with CEOs of the nation’s health systems asks leaders questions about their respective roles and the industry.