Advocate Aurora Health, now part of Advocate Health, plans to sell a remote patient monitoring company it acquired for $290.7 million.

Contract provisions that stick nurses with the cost of training programs if they leave or are terminated before their contracts are up will largely be prohibited under the Federal Trade Commission's April 23 ruling to ban noncompete agreements — a decision National Nurses United is applauding.

More than half of patient portal messages written by artificial intelligence did not require any further editing, but the messages that did posed a risk to patients, according to a study at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has to face a class-action lawsuit claiming its patient portal shared data with Facebook and other third-party companies, Bloomberg Law reported.

The following hospital and health system CFO moves have been shared with or reported by Becker's this year:

New York City-based NYU Langone Health performed the first combined mechanical heart pump and organ transplant surgery and implanted the second gene-edited pig kidney in the world.

EHR vendor Epic Systems broke ground on its newest campus and is continuing to grow its workforce and customers, The Cap Times reported April 25. 

Lina Khan, head of the Federal Trade Commission, cautioned about the risk of healthcare price fixing driven by advancements in technology, PYMNTS reported April 24.

The FDA approved the first new antibiotic for urinary tract infections in two decades.

Justin Kats was named CFO of Fransciscan Health Crown Point (Ind.) and Franciscan Health Michigan City (Ind.), both part of Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health, effective April 8. 

The decadelong reduction in heart failure deaths has "been entirely undone" in recent years, according to a research letter published April 24 in JAMA Network. 

There have been 1,164 mergers among health systems between 2000 and 2020, and a recent study found those transactions increased prices by 5.2%.

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services saw a net income of $261.8 million in the first quarter of 2024, a 60.5% increase from a $163.1 million net income over the same time period in 2023, according to its most recent financial report.

AdventHealth has made several C-suite hires in Central Florida, including a new hospital COO and a new campus CFO. 

Ousters, retirements and a slew of C-suite switch-ups — Becker's has reported the following hospital and health system CEO departures in 2024.

Here are seven health systems that have made revenue cycle vice president hires in 2024: 

Corpus Christi, Texas-based Driscoll Children's Hospital received a multimillion-dollar gift to support its heart center.

Steve Altmiller will be retiring as president and CEO of WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center in Parkersburg, W.Va.

Government is the highest-paying industry for registered nurses, where they earn an average of almost $30,000 higher than the lowest-paying industry, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health, formerly known as NorthShore-Edward-Elmhurst Health, reported a $51.3 million operating loss (-0.9% margin) in 2023, down from a $26.7 million loss (-0.5% margin) in 2022, as legal and integration costs hindered its financial performance.