The O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham received an emergency lodging grant from the American Cancer Society to support the lodging needs of vulnerable patient populations, the university said March 1. 

Miami-based Mercy Hospital, part of HCA East Florida health system, has opened a 24-hour aortic emergency center, the hospital announced March 2.

The FDA granted emergency use authorization March 1 to Quidel's at-home COVID-19 antigen test. 

Joe DeSchryver, CEO of Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, Calif., submitted his resignation March 2, more than a month after county officials sanctioned the hospital because it broke COVID-19 vaccine protocol, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings seeking pharmacy leaders in the last week.

Amazon recently posted job openings related to its health business.

The Biden administration's COVID-19 health equity director, Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, is determined to better understand underlying factors that cause health disparities for people in minority communities, she told NBC." We have a complicated intersectional web that we are now coming to understand better," Dr. Nunez-Smith said. "Structural racism is real."

The treatments for 379 rare diseases cost the U.S. economy nearly $966 billion in 2019, according to The National Economic Burden of Rare Disease Study.

President Joe Biden said March 2 that the U.S. is now expected to have enough COVID-19 vaccine doses for all adults by the end of May, accelerating the timeline by two months, CNN reported. 

Drugmakers are pushing the FDA to resume inspections halted by the pandemic after the agency has deferred or denied drug approvals because it couldn't inspect manufacturing plants in person, Politico reported March 2. 

Business leaders need to have certain skills: empathy, perseverance and resourcefulness. Chad Sanders, author of Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph, said in a March 2 podcast published in Harvard Business Review that Black business leaders can learn from adverse experiences and take advantage of it.

Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System's investment company Florida Community Health Network and investment capital firm Caduceus Capital Partners have partnered on a new initiative for health system innovation.

UnitedHealth subsidiary Optum signed a definitive agreement to acquire Atrius Health, a 715-physician group based in Newton, Mass., according to The Boston Globe. 

Philips on March 2 named Shez Partovi, MD, its new chief innovation and strategy officer, effective March 22.

The American Medical Association, American Nurses Association and American Pharmacists Association on March 2 urged all healthcare professionals to improve their efforts to collect and report race and ethnicity data when administering COVID-19 vaccines.

More than 1,100 attacks and threats of violence against medical workers, patients, healthcare facilities and transport took place worldwide in 2020, and about 400 appear to be specifically related to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.  

Sanford Health plans to build a hospital and clinic in Williston, N.D., the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based system said March 2. 

John Kerndl, executive vice president and CFO of Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health, has accepted the CFO position at Beth Israel Lahey Health System in Boston. 

Real-time and complete data through EHRs could give public health agencies what they need to improve public health analytics. There are four ways eliminating data gaps and improving data-sharing can strengthen the public response to the pandemic, according to a March 1 Pew article.

Hospitals are increasingly becoming victims of cyberattacks as the workforce sees major changes amid the pandemic.