Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, a Westlake Village, Calif.-based biopharmaceutical company, has filed for bankruptcy. 

Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., and Doctors Community Health System, a single-hospital system based in Lanham, Md., have merged to create a new system: Luminis Health. 

MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island, Ill., told employees the facility would close Sept. 30, but the hospital will now stay open longer than expected after a state board postponed a decision on whether to approve the closure, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. 

A former Houston-area hospital administrator was sentenced to 10 years in prison Sept. 16 for his role in a $16 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice.

Bob Connors, MD, president of Spectrum Health's Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich., plans to retire Jan. 3, 2020.

Whittier, Calif.-based PIH Health appointed Richard Trogman system COO and president of PIH Health Hospital-Downey (Calif.), effective Oct. 7.

Tewksbury, Mass.-based Covenant Health named Stephen Forney senior vice president and CFO.

Wyoming County Community Health System in Warsaw, N.Y., has selected Joseph McTernan to serve as CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2020, according to The Daily News.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., asked the following question on Twitter Sept. 14: "What’s the most absurd medical bill you have ever received?"

Physicians should take at least one blood culture from sepsis patients before administering antibiotics, as the therapy can create less reliable test results, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Health officials on Sept. 12 confirmed two additional Legionnaires' cases in the surrounding community of a Batavia, Ill.-based senior living home, which reported 12 cases in late August, according to the Daily Herald.

Air ambulance companies are increasingly offering memberships to consumers in rural areas, but state insurance leaders and others are skeptical about the prepaid subscriptions and whether they stop surprise medical bills, according to Kaiser Health News.

Lawyers for Purdue Pharma said they will ask a judge to issue an injunction on any further lawsuits against the Sackler family during the company's bankruptcy hearings, according to The Wall Street Journal.

California plans to launch a $20 million public awareness campaign next month regarding the dangers of vaping, NBC News reports.

Another Sterigenics sterilization plant is temporarily closed in an effort to reduce its gas emissions, which could impact medical device supply chains, the FDA warned Sept. 13.

Following the introduction of a new operating model and the company's pivot from EHRs to platforms in January, Cerner has also experienced various changes in executive leadership this year.

Changes in national reporting guidelines for catheter-associated urinary tract infections have significantly improved hospitals' infection ratios since 2015, which offers an inaccurate depiction of quality performance unrelated to patient outcomes, according to a study published Sept. 16 in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 

Texas Health Aetna, a health plan jointly owned by Texas Health Resources and Aetna, will begin offering more than 100,000 Northern Texas-based members free behavioral health services through its virtual care platform.

Increases to both wholesale and net drug prices trended downward in this year's second quarter, according to STAT.

OpenSC, a blockchain startup that aims to help supply chains avoid illegal, environmentally harmful or unethical products, received $4 million in seed funding.