Astria Regional Medical Center in Yakima, Wash., has closed and laid off its 463 employees, according to the Yakima Herald.

Epic CEO Judy Faulkner on Jan. 22 emailed some of the EHR giant's largest U.S. hospital clients, asking them to voice disapproval of HHS' proposed interoperability rule, CNBC reports.

A 25-year-old patient who died of a resistant bacterial infection in 2017 is now the namesake of a novel bacteriophage used to fight the superbug, reports STAT.

Miami-based Nicklaus Children's Hospital plans to divest Miami Medical Center two years after purchasing it for $88 million, according to The Miami Herald.

A hospital-backed nonprofit is seeking physicians and other medical professionals to be "ambassadors" for its political agenda, a move that critics say "weaponizes" medical professionals, The Colorado Sun reports.

The drug industry's top lobbying group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, spent a record $29 million to lobby Congress in 2019, The Hill reported. 

Medicare could be paying surgeons for postoperative care that isn't provided, according to a new RAND Corp. analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Civica Rx joined forces with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and 18 of its health plans to create a new subsidiary to further its mission of lowering the cost of generic drugs. 

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has been busy selling, spinning-off and closing hospitals over the past four years.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed three bills regarding hospital oversight and accountability that were inspired by an investigation into CarePoint Health's finances and use of management companies to extract profits from its hospitals, according to NJ.com.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System and Ascension St. Vincent's are building on their long history of collaboration by entering into a new strategic alliance.

Almost 100 nurses could lose their jobs if MetroWest Medical Center moves forward with plans to end inpatient services at Natick, Mass.-based Leonard Morse Hospital, a Massachusetts Nurses Association spokesperson told MetroWest Daily News.

Toby Cosgrove, MD, former president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, has joined home-based and post-acute care solutions provider CareCentrix as a strategic adviser. 

CommonSpirit Health CEO Kevin Lofton, who jointly leads the Chicago-based organization with CEO Lloyd Dean, is retiring from his administrative role, effective June 30.

S&P Global Ratings released a report Jan. 21 detailing its predictions for the pharmacy benefit manager industry in 2020. 

Fortune has finalized its 2020 list of "World's Most Admired Companies."

A program at Houston Methodist Hospital emphasizing the use of over-the-counter medication to manage patients' pain after surgery has helped the hospital reduce opioid prescriptions from 87 percent to about 10 percent, according to a study published in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.

Cardinal Health issued a voluntary recall of 9.1 million surgical gowns, a company spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia installed online voter registration kiosks in its emergency department this month to help boost the number of registered voters in the state, reports Philly Mag.

Below are seven hospitals and health systems currently looking to fill leadership roles pertaining to data and analytics.