Today's Top 20 Healthcare News Articles
  1. 5 recent hospital, health system CEO exits

    Becker's recently reported the following hospital and health system CEO departures, which include resignations and other C-suite changes.
  2. Alaska hospital closing recovery center

    Juneau, Alaska-based Bartlett Regional Hospital is closing its high-intensity residential substance abuse treatment facility on Sept. 24. 
  3. St. Louis Children's offers free lock boxes to prevent medication overdoses

    St. Louis Children's Hospital is aiming to prevent accidental child overdoses by offering families free lock boxes to safely store medications in their homes.

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  1. California hospital taps COO, 4 other leaders

    Brian Smolskis has been appointed COO of Lompoc (Calif.) Valley Medical Center.
  2. CarePoint files notice for 2,602 layoffs, says 'no final decisions' made

    Hoboken, N.J.-based CarePoint Health System has filed three WARN notices with the state, signaling potential layoffs as it explores financial restructuring options.
  3. White House unveils sweeping healthcare safety efforts: 8 notes

    The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a division of HHS, has partnered with other federal agencies and health systems to create a national safety alliance as part of broader commitments from the federal government to reduce preventable harm and improve care quality industrywide.
  4. VA, Epic, Oracle launch initiative to identify veterans in health systems

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has partnered with EHR vendors Oracle Health and Epic to help identify veterans receiving care outside of the VA system.

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  1. Louisiana hospitals, pharmacists prep for abortion pill rule changes

    Starting Oct. 1, a Louisiana law will classify drugs used for abortion — mifepristone and misoprostol — as controlled substances, requiring hospitals to store them in locked cabinets, The Washington Post reported Sept. 17. 
  2. 'Fail fast': How WVU Medicine is addressing payer denials

    Beth Carlson, WVU Medicine's vice president of revenue cycle, described the Morgantown, W.Va.-based system's approach to payer denials with two words "fail fast." 
  3. OHSU launches new 'Mission Control Center'

    Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University has opened a new centralized "Mission Control Center," marking the first time since the initiative's 2017 launch that all technology and coordination teams have been housed in one location.
  4. Children's National Hospital promotes nursing leader

    Tara Floyd, BSN, RN, is now the inaugural vice president and association chief nursing officer at Children's National Hospital.

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  1. Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center names CFO

    Palm Beach Gardens (Fla.) Medical Center has named Marko Serrano Jr. CFO. 
  2. Encompass names Delaware hospital CEO

    Dustin McFarland, MSN, RN, has been tapped as CEO of Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Middletown (Del.).
  3. Sentara hospital to close pediatric unit

    Sentara RMH Medical Center in Harrisonburg, Va., will close its pediatric unit at the end of September, though officials emphasize the hospital will continue to provide care for children in the emergency department and make safe transfers when necessary. 
  4. GLP-1s could prevent 34K strokes, heart attacks annually: Report

    Wegovy and similar medicines have the potential to significantly reduce the risk of strokes and heart attacks in "clinically silent patients," according to research from Dandelion Health. 
  5. South Carolina hospital ends 6-year effort to open facility

    After a six-year legal battle, Beaufort (S.C.) Memorial Hospital has withdrawn its certificate of need for a planned hospital in Bluffton, S.C., the hospital confirmed in a statement shared with Becker's.
  6. Christus to reopen shuttered Steward hospital 'in the coming months'

    Christus Health is taking over the Medical Center of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, Texas, and plans to reopen the facility "in the coming months," according to a Sept. 18 news release shared with Becker's. 
  7. UC Davis opens blood draw clinic for neurodevelopment patients

    UC Davis Health opened a special blood draw clinic for children with autism, Down syndrome and neurodevelopmental conditions.
  8. AI tools could fight the loneliness endemic

    AI chatbots could help fight the loneliness endemic, Julian De Freitas, PhD, assistant professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, wrote in an article for The Wall Street Journal.
  9. UChicago Medicine wins AAMC's community engagement award

    The Association of American Medical Colleges has awarded UChicago Medicine and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine with the 2024 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Engagement. 

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