Healthcare union members are among those who gathered Sept. 27 at Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City to protest after the ouster of One Brooklyn Health CEO LaRay Brown, according to Brooklyn Daily Eagle.  

Epic has helped pave the way for a tech boom in the Madison, Wis., area and change the community's perception as a "boomerang city," the Badger Herald reported.

The University of Toledo (Ohio) Medical Center said university officials are paying more than $83.1 million to purchase outside services, including paying third-party vendors to provide staff for its laboratory and tech positions, Toledo Blade reported Sept. 27.  

Beginning this fall, hospitals could be at risk of losing funding if they do not meet certain benchmarks for sepsis care, due to a Biden administration rule proposed in August.

Power outages spurred Baptist Medical Center South in Jacksonville, Fla., to delay some elective surgeries this week, WJXT reported Sept. 28

Regulators are starting to crack down on contracts that require workers to pay their employers back for training costs if they leave their jobs before the contract is up — arrangements that have come increasingly common over the past few years, especially in nursing.

Neenah, Wis.-based ThedaCare is dividing up financial and operational responsibilities formerly held by one Mark Thompson. 

Dunn, N.C.-based Betsy Johnson Hospital, part of two-hospital system Harnett Health, will end labor and delivery services Oct. 15. 

Victoria, Texas-based Citizens Medical Center is installing Meditech Expanse as its EHR. 

Newsweek recently published its 2023 America's Greatest Workplaces for Parents and Families, and a number of hospitals and health systems made the list. 

Tricia Geraghty, chief marketing and experience officer at Children's Wisconsin, said she will be taking a one-year career sabbatical effective in October, Milwaukee Business Journal reported Sept. 26.  

California clinicians who provide abortion, contraception or gender-affirming care services to out-of-state patients will be offered legal protections under a new law that takes effect in 2024. 

The Miami Transplant Institute's heart transplant program, which was shuttered from March to July, has named Hari Mallidi, MD, as chief.

A recent study found 26.3 percent of American adults have at least one cardiac, renal or metabolic condition, and 1.5 percent have all three.

Indianapolis-based IU Health confirmed it is laying off 84 employees from its Blackford Hospital because of declining patient volumes.

Melissa Mendoza has been named CFO of HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center, effective Sept. 11.

Many healthcare leaders have said that 2022 was among the most financially challenging years hospitals and health systems have had to face, and that recovery remains challenging, according to a Sept. 27 report from the American Hospital Association.

Ian Worden was selected as the new interim CEO of Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska.

Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health's three accountable care organizations created $66.3 million in total savings in 2022, according to a Sept. 27 health system news release.   

Milford (Mass.) Regional Medical Center is exploring a "potential corporate affiliation" with Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health, the largest nonprofit healthcare system in Central Massachusetts, the two entities said Sept. 27.