Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network has tapped Janelle Alfano as director of finance for hospital operations to cover its Northampton County, Pa., market.

Lawmakers are considering removing a provision of the Affordable Care Act that limits expansion and opening of physician-owned hospitals, Medscape reported May 13.

Dignity Health's St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., will close its pediatric unit, effective July 1. 

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From UPMC settling a whistleblower lawsuit to MultiPlan facing multiple suits over alleged price-fixing, here are 10 lawsuits, settlements and legal developments Becker's has reported since April 29. 

St. Louis-based Ascension confirmed that it suffered a ransomware attack. 

Truveta, a 30-plus health system collective focused on digital transformation, named Rod Hochman, MD, its new board of directors chair.

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Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente reported $935 million in operating income for the first quarter up from a $233 million operating income reported in the same quarter last year, according to its May 10 financial report. Its operating margin grew from 0.9% in the first quarter of 2023 to 3.4% in the first quarter of this year. 

Los Angeles, Calif.-based Cedars-Sinai Cancer named Indrin Chetty, PhD, vice chair of research and director of the medical physics division.

Kiana Smith joined Northwestern Medicine two years ago as a Panera Bread employee before becoming a security guard in the emergency department. Time around patients sparked her interest in a clinical role, and thanks to a systemwide program, she achieved the career leap. 

The cyberattack St. Louis-based Ascension suffered May 8 is being called a ransomware incident, CNN reported May 10. 

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Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora, Colo., is temporarily halting surgeries after an unknown residue was found on reusable medical equipment, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's May 10. 

Ransomware group Black Basta is accelerating its attacks against the healthcare industry, according to a May 10 report from the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center.  

Two U.S. lawmakers on May 9 reintroduced a bill that would create a federal grant program for nursing schools to stand up or expand accelerated degree programs geared toward individuals with an undergraduate degree in another field. 

The FDA is preparing to respond should bird flu begin circulating more widely among humans, though the threat the disease currently poses to humans remains low, the agency's commissioner Robert Califf, MD, told senators May 8. 

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services has named Mark Cannon vice president of revenue cycle management, according to a May 10 post on his LinkedIn page. 

Physicians, physician associates and nurse practitioners at Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health's primary care clinics announced May 7 their efforts to unionize with the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association.

Baltimore-based Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital's emergency department resumed seeing new patients in the midst of dealing with a cybersecurity incident that is hampering Ascension facilities, The Baltimore Sun reported May 10.