Healthcare AI is like the subtitle of the first “Star Wars” movie, giving physicians “a new hope” that they can practice present, joyful medicine, an academic health system leader told Becker’s. Those reasons for optimism include ambient listening to automate…
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University has named Sanjay Desai, MD, as vice dean for education at its medical school, according to a Dec. 29 news release. Dr. Desai is chief academic officer at the American Medical Association, where he focuses on…
From ECU Health’s plans to reopen a closed North Carolina hospital as a rural emergency facility to a healthcare group aiming to reopen a shuttered Wisconsin hospital, here 10 planned hospital reopenings that Becker’s has reported in 2025: 1. Stuart…
Lara Khouri has been named chief executive of MemorialCare’s Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital in Long Beach, Calif., effective Feb. 16. Ms. Khouri most recently served as president and COO of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, according to an internal MemorialCare…
Kaiser Permanente Southern California Pathology has implemented a new enterprise digital pathology platform, according to Sony Wirio, MD, the health system’s regional chief of pathology. Dr. Wirio wrote in a LinkedIn post that the organization transitioned to Sectra Digital Pathology,…
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NYC Health + Hospitals, has shared plans to move forward with a partnership that will merge Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Maimonides Health into the New York City-based public health system. “All of our 11 hospitals have their own identity and culture, and…
CMS has awarded $50 billion across all 50 states through its new Rural Health Transformation Program, a five-year federal initiative established under the Working Families Tax Cuts Act and expanded by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The application window…
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health has named Kim Moody vice president and chief accounting officer, according to a post on her LinkedIn page. She joins WellSpan from Towson, Md.-based Sheppard Pratt, where she served as senior director of finance and accounting. …
St. Luke’s Des Peres Hospital in St. Louis has been sold to Des Peres 270 Development LLC, a real estate investment firm, a spokesperson for the Chesterfield, Mo.-based health system confirmed with Becker’s. The 143-bed acute care facility closed Aug.…
Samantha Crandall, PhD, RN, has been named senior vice president of quality and patient safety at GBMC HealthCare System in Towson, Md. Dr. Crandall most recently served as director of quality, patient safety and clinical performance improvement at Johns Hopkins…
