The New York State Department of Health has started the process of repealing its COVID-19 vaccine requirement for workers at regulated healthcare facilities, the agency announced May 24. 

A former anesthesia tech at HonorHealth Scottsdale (Ariz.) Shea Medical Center has been charged with poisoning a coffee belonging to someone working in the operating room, CBS5 reported May 24.  

More than 35,000 physicians became board certified in 2022 — a 3.7 percent increase from the year prior — totaling a record 975,000 physicians nationwide who are now certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties.

St. Paul, Minn.-based Gillette Children's is using artificial intelligence technology to automate its scheduling, pre-visit registration, appointment reminders and clinical intake forms.

Workers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland, Calif., have authorized their second strike in a matter of months. 

Tech nonprofit Dollar For has gotten 40-plus hospitals to make their charity care policies more patient-friendly, Fast Company reported May 24.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine revealed operating income of $160.4 million in its reporting period ending March 31. The seven-hospital system reported positive operating income in the past five years in the May 24 filing.

Wallowa Memorial Hospital in Enterprise, Ore., has named Dan Grigg its next CEO, The Observer reported May 24. 

Northwest Medical Center-Bentonville (Ark.) has promoted Chris Blair, BSN, from interim to permanent CEO. 

A nurse is suing a Chicago health system alleging it collected her biometric data without her informed consent, Law360 reported May 23.

Burnout is a major reason why many therapists and lab and radiologic technologists, among other allied healthcare professionals, choose to work on temporary travel assignments, according to a survey published May 23 by AMN Healthcare.

Mental health issues such as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder can influence healing after a major cardiac event, according to a May 23 article on the American Heart Association website.

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital received a "generous gift" from the Lasher family of Tampa that will be used to expand TGH's infectious disease research and support the TGH Foundation, according to a May 24 hospital news release.

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System's Heart and Vascular Institute received a $75 million gift from real estate magnate Dwight Schar and his wife, Martha Schar.

Billionaire and Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban will soon start selling five Pfizer brand-name drugs through his pharmaceutical company, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. 

Following the Federal Trade Commission's expanded probe into pharmacy benefit managers and their group purchasing organizations, Drug Channels listed five possible reasons why PBMs create GPOs.

A bill that could transform the legal landscape for healthcare mergers and acquisitions in North Carolina was pulled from committee and will therefore not likely be discussed further in the state legislature's current session.

The evolution of artificial intelligence and its potential for your organization – for good and ill – should be high on the agenda at your next board meeting.

Members of the Committee of Interns and Residents and Mount Sinai in New York City have reached a tentative agreement, ending a three-day strike at NYC Health + Hospitals' Elmhurst Hospital Center.

Adam Rosen, chief information security officer at Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, said that as hospitals and health systems continue to expedite their use of artificial intelligence, it could become another tool used as a threat against them, Buffalo Business First reported May 24.