West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health is aiming to standardize nurse education and professional development across the system via a new institute.

Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope reported a data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of patients last year.

John Reed Sullivan, a retired hospital CEO, has died.

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has appointed Kevin Giordano president of Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital and COO of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Brigham and Women's Hospital Physicians Organization. He was also named senior vice president of operations for the health system.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health plans to grow its Edgewise internal group purchasing organization, which also provides GPO services to member organizations outside the health system.

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health is targeting growth for its health plan and working closely with commercial payers to deliver high value care for the community as part of an integrated delivery and financing system.

Healthcare jobs continued to grow in March, with certain areas of the sector showing strong growth on top of February's numbers. 

St. Louis-based Mercy has filed a letter of intent with the Missouri department of health and senior services to build a 75-bed, $650 million hospital in Wentzville, Mo., to expand healthcare amid population growth in the area. 

Effective July 1, Karen Keady, PhD, RN, will join Vanderbilt University Medical Center as chief nursing officer. She joins the Nashville, Tenn.-based system from the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center, where she spent six years as vice president and chief nurse executive. 

Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston has voluntarily stopped its liver transplant program after learning of and investigating what it calls "irregularities with donor acceptance criteria."

Mardian J. Blair, CEO of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth from 1984 until 2000, died March 26 at 92. 

TMC Health is readying for a change at the top after President and CEO Judy Rich served for 17 years in the role. 

Mayo Clinic and its health plan administrator Medica "systemically underpaid" claims and left employees with large healthcare bills, according to a proposed class action lawsuit filed by a Mayo Clinic Arizona employee.

Buncombe County in North Carolina has filed a motion to intervene in the attorney general's lawsuit against HCA and is seeking $3 million in damages it claims HCA Mission Hospital has cost taxpayers through "excessive" wait times for patients to get transferred from EMS care to the hospital's emergency department. 

Springfield, Mo.-based Jordan Valley Community Health Center is moving to an Epic EHR system, SBJ reported April 4. 

More than 1,400 healthcare workers at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wash., and MultiCare Valley Hospital in Spokane Valley, Wash., who are represented by SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, have approved a new labor contract.

Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health has named Stephanie Schnittger CFO. 

Here are 10 hospitals and health systems appointing new IT executives to their teams, as reported by Becker's since Dec. 12:

Kansas City-based University of Kansas Health System and Manhattan-based Kansas State University have partnered to focus on rural healthcare through the K-State 105 initiative. 

The New York Department of Health told New York City-based Mount Sinai that its closure plan for Beth Israel Hospital is incomplete and is asking the system to submit a new, comprehensive plan.