Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care has rolled out the first phase of its rebranding initiative. 

In February, Novo Nordisk agreed to buy Catalent for $16.5 billion. The Federal Trade Commission has since requested more information from the companies as it reviews the deal, The Wall Street Journal reported May 3. 

PeaceHealth has tapped its first program director of environmental stewardship as it expands sustainability projects, the 9-hospital system said May 3.  

Dallas, Texas-based Steward Health Care filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 6. 

Five of the top 10 best states for mental healthcare are in the Northeast, and six of the top 10 worst states for mental healthcare are in the South, according to a new Forbes Advisoranalysis.

Of the roughly 10% of patients that were boarded in emergency departments, an estimated 30% to 50% were adults 65 and older, KFF Health News reported May 6.

Following an HHS proposal, a Senate committee penned a bill to incentivize hospitals and other healthcare supply chain stakeholders for their drug shortage mitigation strategies, including stockpiles. 

Douglas Arvin, West Market vice president and CFO of Essentia Health, has deployed multiple strategies to improve access and margin performance over the last few years.

New York City-based NYU Langone Health expects its merger with Patchogue, N.Y.-based Long Island Community Hospital to be completed in about a year, a spokesperson for the health system told Becker's. 

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham now treats patients needing emergency or urgent care at home.

The chief research information officer of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is one of the newest governing council members for Epic's Cosmos research network.

"Hospital at home" suffers from what economists call a "common agency problem," three experts on the care model wrote in Health Affairs.

Ten hospitals and health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise.

Stace Holland was named CEO of Thomas H. Boyd Memorial Hospital in Carrollton, Ill.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine saw more than 5,800 patient transfers in the nine months ending March 31, a 16% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to a May 6 report from The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Bronson Battle Creek (Mich.) Hospital has named Ali Ghasham, MD, vice president and chief medical officer. 

Better pay rates was the most important aspect of the workplace for nurses, according to a recent AMN Healthcare report.

Since late last year, Becker's has covered eight instances in which CMS issued an immediate jeopardy warning to hospitals. To avert the loss of CMS funding, hospitals that receive such warnings must submit and implement a comprehensive plan of correction to address any deficiencies for which they were cited. 

The California Department of Public Health recently fined a Prime Healthcare hospital approximately $244,000 after a wrong-site nerve block and adverse events, according to state documents. 

Dallas, Texas-based Steward Health Care filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will receive millions in financing from Medical Properties Trust to maintain operations at existing hospitals and clinics, according to a May 6 health system news release.