Month: October 2022

Cancer Treatment Centers of America is transitioning its EHR from Allscripts to Epic following its acquisition in February by Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope.

Flu-related hospitalizations for this time of the year are the highest they’ve been in a decade, according to new government figures, an ominous sign about […]

Leaders of Escondido, Calif.-based Palomar Health and the founder of the medical group that provides the health system’s physicians are facing criticism for financially supporting […]

Cigna’s (NYSE: CI) Medicare Advantage (MA) members in certain markets will now have access to home-based primary care through Heal. The provider recently announced that […]

Members of Valley Physicians Group plan to begin a four-day strike on Nov. 1 in Santa Clara (Calif.) County.

Burlingame, Calif.-based Color Health completed the acquisition of Ann Arbor, Mich.-based mental health organization Mood Lifters and also introduced a product expansion to connect people […]

West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health recently received a Epic Gold Stars Level 10 recognition, placing the health system in the top 0.3 percent of all […]

The Chicago-based personal home care company Help at Home announced last week a new segment of their business that will focus on care coordination. Help […]

Methodist Mansfield (Texas) Medical Center has named Crystal Brown its vice president of operations. 

Businesses with at least one New York City-based worker will be required by law to add salary ranges to their job postings, effective Nov. 1, […]

The following hospital and health system executive moves have been reported by Becker’s Hospital Review since Oct. 21: 

COVID-19 hospitalizations increased slightly this week after nearly two months of decline, while omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 — dubbed ‘escape variants’ for their immune […]

Staff shortages and increased adoption of smart technologies by older adults are driving senior and post-acute care organizations’ implementation of emerging technologies such as voice-interactive […]

Tech giant Apple reported its fourth-quarter earnings of $90.1 billion in revenue, an increase of 8 percent year over year.

Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health’s Saxony Hospital in Fishers broke ground on a $300 million expansion. 

Baptist Health Hardin in Elizabethtown, Ky., has named Robert Ramey its next president, effective Jan. 1. 

John Holland, a former executive at Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, has asked a Georgia judge to throw out a case brought against him in 2017, according […]

More than 2,300 patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza were admitted to a hospital for the week ending Oct. 22, according to the CDC’s latest FluView report. 

Randy Oostra is retiring as CEO of Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica.

Despite a wavering market for digital health and the tech industry as a whole, venture capitalists, including those affiliated with health systems, continue to invest […]

The Leflore County (Miss.) Board of Supervisors agreed to contribute half of the $9 million it will take to complete the proposed takeover of the […]

Phoenix-based Solera Health launched a first-of-its-kind women’s health network, increasing accessibility to various services.

Physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals can apply to have their YouTube channels verified as a healthcare source in a push to limit misinformation on […]

Several hospitals and health systems are trimming their workforces or jobs due to financial and operational challenges. 

Several hospitals and health systems are trimming their workforces or jobs due to financial and operational challenges. 

Some providers have stopped gender-affirming care as politicians seek to restrict procedures—and as they field violent threats—while others, such as Vanderbilt University Medical Center in […]

Renton, Wash.-based Providence recently promoted Mark Premo to chief data officer and group vice president.

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Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens aims to keep Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center open — but first, the facility needs a new operator, Reporter Newspapers & Atlanta […]

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has handed over a $250,000 grant to a clinic in Denver that has historically served that city’s Latino community.

Larry Ellison, the co-founder and chief technology officer of Oracle, said he wants the company to create a global healthcare database, Diginomica reported.

For the fourth time this year, another drugmaker has recalled some of its products because of nitrosamines, which have been linked to cancer in animal […]

Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center, Cleveland-based University Hospitals, and Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network are among the health systems participating in a precision oncology research platform […]

This article is sponsored by The Joint Commission. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Beth Ann Longo, Associate Director of […]

Chambersburg, Pa.-based Keystone Health, a primary care provider, is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly failing to prevent a data breach that compromised the […]

Houston-based Memorial Hermann is facing an investigation from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over a policy that allegedly prevents parents from accessing their children’s medical […]

Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance in the U.S. average $22,463, according to an Oct. 27 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Sixty-one percent of healthcare organizations say they’ve suffered a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure in the past year, and the vast majority say these IT […]

On November 8th, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County (HHC) v. Talevski. The […]

The following executive moves made by women have been reported by Becker’s since Oct. 21. 

OB-GYN training programs are facing a catch-22: If they offer abortion training in states where its outlawed, they could be prosecuted. If they don’t, they’ll […]

Hospitals and health systems are among the five industries with the lowest promotion rates, according to an Oct. 26 analysis from LinkedIn. 

HCA Florida Kendall Hospital in Miami, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, is facing a lawsuit over a photo that was posted on social media […]

A man who traveled to Florida from Michigan to help with hurricane repairs died Oct. 11 after contracting a flesh-eating bacterial infection found in warm […]

Tech company HealthJoy has received $60 million in series D funding to grow its healthcare benefits platform.

A surge in respiratory syncytial virus is putting severe strain on children’s hospitals nationwide. Hospitals first began seeing the unseasonable RSV rise in August. Now, […]

Dignity Health hospitals in Bakersfield, Calif. — which include Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Mercy Hospital Downtown and Mercy Hospital Southwest — provided more than $119 million […]

A new “earn-as-you-learn” program will pay trainees to learn the supply chain, then funnel them into positions at Chicago-based Rush Health, the Chicago Sun Times […]

The State Medical Board of Ohio is considering whether Sherri Tenpenny, DO, a Cleveland-based osteopathic medicine physician known for spreading vaccine misinformation, should lose her […]

President Joe Biden has appointed Stephen Klasko, MD, an executive-in-residence with venture capital firm General Catalyst and a former health system CEO, to the National […]

28/10/2022 New report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of the health and care workforce Image Maintaining a healthy and […]

The Rural Emergency Hospital designation is set to take effect in January, but many hospitals aren’t interested in the program, Politico reported Oct. 27. 

Cancer death rates decreased by 2.1 percent each year from 2015 to 2019 even as the number of diagnoses remained the same or increased, according […]

Osage Beach, Mo.-based Lake Regional Health System is closing two pharmacies in the Lake of Ozarks area, LakeExpo reported Oct. 27.

Northwell Holdings, the venture capital arm of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, has invested $1 million in medical device company Lazzaro Medical, which offers […]

A former employee of Hudson Regional Hospital in Secaucus, N.J., has filed a lawsuit against the facility and its CEO, alleging she was fired for […]

From a lawsuit filed by Washington state’s attorney general to being questioned by a U.S. senator, Renton, Wash.-based Providence’s alleged debt collection practices have come […]

A report from the staff of the top Republican on the Senate health committee strongly suggests the virus that causes COVID-19 was introduced to the […]

Aggressively collecting medical debt should join the list of medical “never events,” like leaving a sponge inside a patient or operating on the wrong limb, […]

Reforming the WHOs Essential Medicines List. Should countries ban dual practice by physicians? Evidence on alcohol use. College vaccine mandates and COVID deaths. Using natural […]

Cuando Katie Couric compartió la noticia de su diagnóstico de cáncer de mama, la ex presentadora del programa Today de NBC dijo que veía este […]

Fayetteville, N.C.-based Cape Fear Valley Health is eliminating 200 positions, according to an Oct. 27 report from The Fayetteville Observer.

The union representing workers at Rhode Island community hospitals are putting the owner “on notice” about concerns over a possible sale, The Providence Journal reported Oct. […]

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Teladoc reported a 17 percent revenue increase to $611 million in the third quarter, up from $522 million in 2021. 

Christin Zollicoffer is responsible for devising Lifespan’s strategy to cultivate a diverse and inclusive workplace.

A 37-year-old woman is accused of practicing medicine as a registered nurse without a license at seven South Carolina nursing and assisted living facilities over […]

As three of the best-known brands in the world — Amazon, Netflix and Meta — fell off the Fortune 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list for 2022, […]

The payer has been steadily ratcheting up its presence on the Affordable Care Act exchanges after dramatically reducing its ACA markets in 2017.

When Katie Couric shared the news of her breast cancer diagnosis, the former co-host of NBC’s “Today” show said she considered this new health challenge […]

For 23 years, the private ambulance industry in California had gone without an increase in the base rate the state pays it to transport Medicaid […]

Sylvana Sinha is CEO of Praava Health, a primary & specialty care network based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. While the average American may only think about […]

BEIJING (AP) — China’s largest city of Shanghai is ordering mass testing Friday on all 1.3 million residents of its downtown Yangpu district and confining […]

That is the title of a article yesterday in Kaiser Health News. What is your initial reaction to this title? That pharmaceutical firms are making […]

Farewell 12-foot skeleton, this year’s must-have Halloween decoration from Home Depot is an 9.5 foot animatronic werewolf with a ripped physique.  In health news, the CDC for […]

Mike Howard was appointed CEO of Southern Tennessee Regional Health System-Lawrenceburg.

On Oct. 27, Atlanta-based Emory University announced that Ravi Thadhani, MD, an experienced leader in academic medicine, will be joining its ranks. 

Brenna Farmer, MD, was appointed chief of the department of emergency medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in New York City.

Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) teased it, and now the company is unveiling it. The company, which has been working with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans on better […]

Indianapolis-based Eli committed $92.5 million dollars to West Lafayette, Ind.-based Purdue University to establish a new pharmaceutical manufacturing scholarship program.

Operating costs in healthcare centers and hospitals across the country are rising amid inflationary pressures, staffing shortages and supply chain disruption, and such locations are […]

OSF Healthcare and Bradley University, both in Peoria, Ill., are forming the Innovation for Health partnership, which will commit $5 million to innovative healthcare projects.

“Multivoting” — allowing people more than one vote so they can select multiple options if desired — is most effective in finding the “best choice,” […]

Greenbrae, Calif.-based MarinHealth has named Eugene Lewis its chief human resources officer in a permanent capacity. Mr. Lewis had served on an interim basis since […]

A man from Granville, Iowa, was arrested Oct. 26 after threatening gun violence toward Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Hospital, CBS affiliate KELO reported. 

DispatchHealth and Home Instead have teamed up to offer clients of the latter access to in-home acute care. Originally launched as an in-home urgent care […]

Health CIOs and chief information security officers are preparing for ransomware attacks with something more commonly associated with hobby shops than hospitals: tabletop games. 

Labor costs were one of the prime reasons Community Health Systems reported a net loss of $42 million for the third quarter, but the Franklin, […]

In the third quarter, all three hospitals worked to reduce their reliance on contract labor and looked for efficiency opportunities.

Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital has appointed Sujathal Sankaran, MD, as its new chief medical officer. She succeeds Sabrina Kidd, MD, who had held the role […]

Healthcare data breaches are down 6 percent year over year in the first half of 2022, according to Critical Insight’s 2022 “Healthcare Breach Report.” However, […]

People of color with a COVID-19 diagnosis were much less likely to receive Paxlovid and other treatments than white patients, according to new data from […]

What happens when legal and healthcare bureaucracy collide? In one New York City case, the result is hospital bills of more than $600,000 and mounting.

Besides one drug that can only be prescribed in some cases, there are no FDA-approved vaccines to treat respiratory syncytial virus — which leaves healthcare […]

Nota: esta calculadora refleja las primas para 2021. Esta calculadora ilustra las primas (el costo mensual de su seguro) y subsidios para las personas que […]

Nota: Esta calculadora ha sido actualizada con los cambios a los subsidios en el American Rescue Plan Act de 2021 (el acta de alivio por […]

Los Angeles-based provider Heal is now in-network for Cigna Medicare Advantage patients in Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Avera Creighton (Neb.) Hospital has named Theresa Guenther its interim CEO. 

The vast majority of hospitalized monkeypox patients observed in a report conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were found to be […]

Researchers have developed a list of 10 high-priority safety practices to help healthcare organizations address diagnostic errors, based on a comprehensive literature review and input […]

San Jose, Calif.-based Satellite Healthcare introduced a new care model on Oct. 27 designed for patients who have recently been diagnosed with kidney disease requiring […]

Walgreens’ vice president of pharmacy of the future, Rina Shah, PharmD, told Politico federal laws are needed to further meld pharmacists into other healthcare roles.

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NYC Health + Hospitals spent more than $747 million — 32 percent of its eligible procurement spending — with minority- and women-owned businesses in fiscal […]

CMS has updated its nursing home staff vaccination requirements to 100 percent in order to be compliant.

The Health Insurance Marketplace Calculator, updated with 2022 premium data, provides estimates of health insurance premiums and subsidies for people purchasing insurance on their own […]

MercyOne Clinton (Iowa) Medical Center has created a new service that allows patients to receive neurological care through telehealth. 

Healthcare leaders from 32 organizations in seven states have joined forces to tackle health disparities among minority aging populations.

Vitality is a driver and an outcome of health and work/life engagement. However, according to new research from Bloomfield-Conn.-based Cigna and Washington, D.C.-based Morning Consult, […]

Montana has been a national model for how employers could gain control and transparency over medical bills. Upcoming changes to its model have healthcare price […]

Atlanta-based Emory University has tapped Ravi Thadhani, MD, for executive vice president of health affairs, executive director of its health sciences center and vice chair […]

The 2023 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment period will run from November 1, 2022 to January 15, 2023 in most states, longer in some […]

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Detroit-based Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute completed its $48 million expansion at its Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer Center in Farmington Hills, DBusiness reported Oct. […]

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Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta plans to build a new behavioral and mental health center and launch a new program to address childhood mental health.

Houston Methodist has received $10 million from an anonymous donor for a medical expansion at its Shenandoah, Texas-based The Woodlands Hospital, Innovation Map reported Oct. […]

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic partnered with virtual care company Memora Health to launch a research program that allows providers to care for postpartum patients from […]

GPs in England are responsible for 310 patients more on average now than they were in 2015, analysis by GPonline reveals.

What is Urology? Urology is a surgical specialty dealing with the treatment of conditions related to the female and male urinary tract and the male […]

Tuberculosis infections, including those that are drug-resistant, increased globally in 2021 for the first time in years, according to an Oct. 27 report from the […]

Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Hospital has begun construction on its new surgical tower. 

Seven recent chief medical and nursing officer moves Becker’s has covered since Oct. 24:

Google acquired health tech startup Sound Life Sciences, a University of Washington spinout that developed an app to monitor breathing, GeekWire reported Oct. 26. 

Marriottsville, Md.-based Bon Secours leadership joined Suffolk, Va., community leaders Oct. 26 to break ground on the new Bon Secours Harbor View Hospital.

ONC is working alongside Health Level Seven International (HL7®) and with a wide range of partners from health care, government (federal and states), community-based organizations, […]

Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine is notifying 33,850 patients that some of their personal health information may have been compromised due to a phishing scheme that […]

Annual premiums for family health coverage remained relatively flat in 2022, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), even as wages and […]

University of Louisville (Ky.) researchers found e-cigarette liquids can cause arrhythmias and cardiac electrical dysfunction.

Saint Paul, Minn.-based Regions Hospital is notifying 980 patients that some of their personal information has been compromised due to an August data breach.

School-based telehealth company Hazel Health has expanded to 14 states and is now serving more than 2.5 million students.