Like many baby boomers and those from earlier generations, I have vivid memories from my younger years of my grandparents and other aging adults struggling with an assortment of ailments that their doctors told them were just an inevitable part of growing old.

Over the past three years, Hackensack Meridian Health has reduced turnover for full- and part-time employees from a high of 14% to just over 8%. This improvement is partly due to heightened attention translating to greater engagement, Linda McHugh, the health system's chief experience and people officer, told Becker's.

The following hospital and health system executive moves have been shared with or reported by Becker's this year:

The Biden Cancer Moonshot marked the one-year anniversary of CMS finalizing six navigation service billing codes by sharing reported outcomes from a variety of navigation programs. 

A recent study using data from the UK BioBank highlighted the extended risk of major adverse cardiac events in individuals who have recovered from COVID-19. 

Ken Hedley and his team at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital are guided by a patient-first mission.

Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health already has one of the largest hospital-at-home programs in the country. Now the health system is expanding into other home-care domains.

Muscle Shoals, Ala.-based North Alabama Shoals Hospital has received state approval to expand its behavioral health services.

Oracle Health, the EHR company formerly known as Cerner, has been busy developing artificial intelligence and interoperability features.

Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy represented the healthcare industry recently on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to educate federal lawmakers about artificial intelligence.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health reported an operating income of $77.5 million (1.7% margin) in the third quarter of 2024, up from an operating loss of $11.6 million (-0.3% margin) during the same period last year, according to its Nov. 27 financial report. 

HHS and CMS have finalized a new, mandatory model for kidney transplant coordination across 103 hospitals. The model aims to increase access, address disparities and improve care coordination for patients navigating the kidney transplant process, while also reducing Medicare expenditures. 

As several pharmaceutical companies challenge their role in the 340B drug pricing program, Bristol Myers Squibb filed a lawsuit Nov. 26 against the HHS agency that oversees the federal program. 

With a booming population in Fort Worth, Texas, Cook Children's is expanding its capacity and access to care. 

As hospitals and health systems seek to integrate AI into healthcare operations, many are establishing dedicated AI centers to test and develop new AI tools.

Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services has launched a new program aimed at reducing diet-related health disparities.

Physician practice costs have increased throughout the year, a trend that could continue into the new year, according to data from Strata Decision Technology.

Epic Research, the digital publication from EHR vendor Epic, taps into the company's extensive patient data repository to address pressing medical questions, Wisconsin State Journal reported Nov. 27.

Medicare beneficiaries are facing wide price discrepancies for prescription drugs, with the same medication costing vastly different amounts, depending on the plan and location, The Wall Street Journal  reported Nov. 26. 

Over the last few months, Dallas-based Steward Health Care has been subject to increased scrutiny regarding the health system's troubled finances and the status of its more than 30 hospitals across eight states.