Mount Sinai Health System has launched a new program to provide more career advancement opportunities for Black men within the organization.

Some employees at Walgreens will not see any "further" wage increases, the chain's CEO said March 28. 

Private equity firm Enhanced Healthcare Partners is investing in RCM tech platform Janus Health. 

Resident physicians employed by Detroit Education & Research and working at Detroit Medical Center hospitals are seeking a unionization election.

Hospitals and health systems across the country are facing lawsuits alleging that they have put pixel tracking technologies onto their websites and patient portals for marketing purposes, and they could be violating patient privacy laws by doing so, JDSupra reported March 27.

Lori Rakes, RN, was named CEO of Piedmont Cartersville (Ga.) Medical Center, part of Atlanta-based Piedmont.

Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center and the Digital Medicine Society will co-host CancerX, an initiative to use digital innovation to fight cancer. 

Generation Z may become "the true modernizer of the retirement industry," according to a recent survey from Principal. 

Stanford Medicine Children's Health in Palo Alto, Calif., has named Cormac Maher, MD, as its new chief of pediatric neurosurgery.

Health officials in China have reported a positively identified case of H3N8 avian flu, according to a March 27 report from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

The following hospital and health system CEO moves have recently been reported by Becker's:

Kettering (Ohio) Health has hired an outside firm to conduct an internal investigation into allegations of inappropriate fiscal and operational management, the Dayton Daily News reported March 27. The firm will recommend updates to processes and policies.

Jon Sendach was named deputy regional executive director for New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health's central region, according to a March 28 news release shared with Becker's.

The virus that causes COVID-19 has the ability to alter the genome structure of cells, which may play a role in long COVID-19, according to new findings from researchers at UTHealth Houston. 

Fort Belvoir (Va.) Community Hospital, a Department of Defense medical facility, went live with its new EHR system MHS Genesis on March 25. 

Major hospital groups are ramping up resistance to physician-owned hospitals, which were checked by the Affordable Care Act but have recently become subject of renewed attention.

A congressman has introduced a bill aimed at closing a "shocking loophole" that has led to Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, Kaiser Health News reported March 28. 

Franklin, Ind.-based Johnson Memorial Health spent six months trying to get their operations back to normal after Hive ransomware group ​​infiltrated its networks in October 2021, but it is still feeling the effects of the cyberattack two years later, Side Effects Public Media reported March 27. 

Herb Watson, CRNA, a "living legend" in nurse anesthesia education, died March 7 at age 94.

The International Council of Nurses has declared nurse shortages to be a global health emergency, with 13 million nurses needing to be replaced globally in the coming years.