Quyen Wong, DNP, RN, has been appointed associate executive director of patient care and chief nursing officer at Northwell Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y.

Claire Mooney, DNP, is joining Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health as chief nursing officer of its Central region in November. She has spent more than a decade in executive roles at health systems in Pennsylvania. 

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health has rebranded its urgent care centers.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, a 188-hospital system is estimating revenues of up to $72 billion in 2024 and has appointed several new CFOs at hospitals in multiple markets this year.

Members of AFSCME Local 875 are set to walk off the job Oct. 20 at McLaren Flint (Mich.), ABC affiliate WJRT reported.  

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente became a founding partner of a WNBA expansion franchise in San Francisco and will have its name on the team's jerseys.

A North Carolina health system has begun rolling out a rebrand.

In 2024, the percentage of healthcare organizations paying ransomware demands decreased to 36%, down from 40% in 2023. However, those that did comply faced steeper costs, an Oct. 8 survey from Proofpoint and Ponemon Institute found.

From GSK agreeing to settle 80,000 Zantac-related lawsuits, to a coalition of states and nonprofits suing HHS and CMS over a nursing home staffing rule, here are 12 recent healthcare industry lawsuits, settlements, and legal developments Becker's has reported since Oct. 4:

Richmond University Medical Center in New York City has named two new C-suite leaders.

Microsoft, Epic and health systems across the country are working to develop an AI solution that uses ambient technology to streamline nursing documentation.

Leaders from two of the top five cancer centers, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, shared with Becker's the best leadership advice they have received.

Saint Paul, Minn.-based Bethel University has launched the Anderson Family College of Health Sciences with the help of a $20 million donation to provide healthcare education to future healthcare workers.

Twelve hospitals and health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle vice presidents. 

Oklahoma City-based Oklahoma Children's Hospital OU Health has performed the hospital's first pediatric heart transplant in decades. 

Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health has been on a years-long journey to reduce the documentation burden for its clinicians and has recently inked an expanded partnership with AI-powered voice assistant platform Suki AI in order to do so.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has opened a new center to care for patients with complex chronic conditions, such as long COVID-19 and Lyme disease. 

An Oklahoma City hospital has selected Meditech Expanse for its EHR.

A Virginia health system plans to launch a generative AI-powered clinical documentation tool from Abridge to more than 750 providers.

Health systems are growing increasingly frustrated with fighting to receive payments from insurers in the Medicare Advantage program, which now provides health coverage to more than 55% of the nation's older adults, about 33.8 million people.