Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has named Bryan Croft executive vice president and COO of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, effective June 3.

A bill that could stall the proposed merger between Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services is headed to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's desk — but the health systems are not letting it deter them. 

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System has found itself caught up in ballooning costs at the Alexandria Landmark Mall site where it plans to move the system's Inova Alexandria (Va.) Hospital, ALXnow reported May 23.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has been at the center of a controversial statewide staffing measure. Its relationship with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was essential to its exemption from the Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act — and the bill's final-hour revisions, the health system said. 

Paul Rothman, MD, former CEO of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine, joined the USC Health System Board to provide strategic oversight and governance of Keck Medicine of USC and university clinical services.

The University of Texas at Arlington's 150,000-square-foot Health Innovation and Smart Hospital features artificial intelligence-powered robots, virtual reality simulators and classrooms designed to mimic hospital units and patients' homes, D Magazine reported May 23.

Augusta-based Georgia Cancer Center and Augusta University are tackling skin cancer rates by installing sunscreen dispensers across the university's campus, Jagwire reported May 22.

Despite continued high labor expenses, inflation and the rising costs of medical equipment and supplies, some nonprofit health systems' margins made it back into the black in the first quarter. 

More than half of the members of the House of Representatives have signed a letter urging House leadership to delay cuts to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program. 

Massachusetts General Hospital accused a former researcher of stealing trade secrets for a fat-freezing technology, obtaining a patent for the technology without giving the hospital credit and sharing information on a confidential deal.

St. Louis-based SSM Health reported higher operating expenses in the first quarter of 2023, which dragged the system to an operating loss of $16.5 million.

Here are the EHR vendors that gained — or lost — acute care hospital market share between 2021 and 2022, according to a May 23 KLAS Research report.

UnitedHealth Group's Optum has been shaking up its leadership as some executives get promoted to new positions, while others have left the company for other healthcare ventures. 

Three hospitals have filed for bankruptcy so far in 2023, and all three are located in California. 

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Here are the fastest growing jobs within nursing between 2021 and 2031, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Ohio Nurses Association is sounding the alarm on understaffing in hospitals through a new "Code Red" advocacy campaign.

Arcata, Calif.-based Mad River Community Hospital, a 78-bed facility, is set to be acquired by management company Southwest Healthcare Services, the hospital said May 22.

Western Governors University, an accredited, online, non-profit school based out of Millcreek, Utah, said in a May 22 press release that it will open an 18,000-square-foot nursing prelicensure simulation lab in Kansas City, Mo., in late 2023. 

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital has successfully completed the first living donor liver transplant in its history, a May 23 press release announced.