San Antonio-based Methodist Healthcare has acquired San Antonio Rehabilitation Hospital from NewEra IRF Holdings, an integrated commercial real estate development and capital investment company.

Dallas-based Children's Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center broke ground on its $5 billion pediatric campus and received a $100 million gift to support the project.

Providence said it is taking action after the California attorney general filed a lawsuit against one of its hospitals that allegedly denied a woman an emergency abortion.

Two Tenet Healthcare hospitals in California will have new leadership in November, local news outlets the Livermore Vine and the Turlock Journal reported. 

The best small cities for health and education are located in Massachusetts and Virginia, WalletHub found.

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

Gardner, Mass.-based Heywood Healthcare exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy after addressing contract issues, seeking commercial rate improvements and organizing finances.

Anthony Hilliard, MD, has been named acting CEO of Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health's hospitals.

Lifespan will pay $1.5 million in lieu of taxes to the city of Providence, R.I., where it is based, according to a three-year proposed agreement.

Rural and community hospitals and smaller health systems are struggling to push their operating margins back into the black, with many continuing to seek strategic partners or acquisitions to ensure access to care. Academic health systems are stepping up.

Following the closure of the only crisis stabilization unit in Sonoma County, area hospitals are seeing a rise in mental health patients seeking care in their emergency departments, The Press Democrat reported Sept. 30. 

With only three months remaining in 2024, hospital and health systems are formulating their strategies for 2025 and beyond. Stephen Jones, MD, president and CEO of Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health, recently spoke with Becker's about the system's strategies on topics from capital investments to partnerships with community organizations.

A federal judge has thrown out a COVID-19-related wrongful death lawsuit against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, CBS affiliate WRGB reported Sept. 30.

Jenee Wilson, RN, has been appointed chief nursing officer of McLeansboro, Ill.-based Hamilton Memorial Hospital after serving in the role on an interim basis since Aug. 1.

A year after its release, the DAX Copilot from Microsoft subsidiary Nuance has become one of the most popular generative AI-powered clinical documentation tools for health systems.

Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health has acquired Milford (Mass.) Regional Medical Center and the Milford Regional Physician Group as part of a new corporate affiliation.

Nearly a quarter of nurses are uncomfortable with artificial intelligence's use in healthcare, according to an Oct. 1 McKinsey & Co. report.

Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD, a CAR-T therapy innovator and one of the world's top immunologists, has left New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for two new roles at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, also in New York City.

Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based DCH Health System tapped Rachel Anderson to serve as its new vice president of supply chain. 

Chris Osentowski was appointed chief integration and development officer at Medical City Healthcare in Dallas, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, according to a news release shared with Becker's.