Leaders from two top-five cancer centers, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, shared with Becker's the changes they want to see in cancer care.

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health is planning to build a new full-service, community hospital campus in Bluffton, S.C.

A cyberattack on an employee email account at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine has impacted 57,891 individuals. 

Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University has filed a healthcare market oversight notice with the Oregon Health Authority that details plans to become an integrated, full-service public university health system with Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health. 

While VCU Health's hospital-at-home program did not meet its initial patient volume targets in its first year, it achieved strong success in terms of patient satisfaction, Julia Siegel Breton, MD, medical director of the program, told Becker's.

Pediatric patients from Morgantown, Va.-based WVU Medicine helped make designs on a car in a NASCAR-affiliated race.

A Kansas health system has a new name. Here are five things to know.

Kerry Heinrich, president and CEO of Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health, appeared on Dr. Drew's TV show, "Health Uncensored."

A study of 237 New York and Illinois hospitals found nurse staffing levels, Magnet designations and other factors were associated with lower COVID-19 death rates.  

Columbia, S.C.-based Prisma Health is the third health system in the country to open a retail market featuring Amazon's "just-walk-out" technology. 

WoodBridge Healthcare, a nonprofit organization led by healthcare veteran Joshua Nemzoff, plans to acquire Commonwealth Health, a three-hospital system part of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems. 

Mercy Hospital South St. Louis broke ground Sept. 26 on a project to expand and redesign its entire emergency department. 

The following hospital and health system CEO retirements have been shared with or reported by Becker's in the second half of 2024:

A recent study suggests that semaglutide, typically used for Type 2 diabetes, may significantly reduce the risk of opioid overdoses in patients with opioid use disorder, according to research published Sept. 25 by JAMA Network.

Ballad Health and Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center were among the hospitals and health systems that tapped new CFOs in September. 

Stacy Harberson has been appointed CEO of Nashville, Ark.-based Howard Memorial Hospital.

The FDA is set to make a pivotal decision Sept. 26 about KarXT, a novel antipsychotic developed by Karuna Therapeutics. If approved, it would be the first drug with a unique mechanism for treating schizophrenia in decades, Medscape reported Sept. 20. 

Hospitals with higher guideline-directed medical therapy scores showed lower rates of mortality, rehospitalization and costs in heart failure patients, according to a Sept. 25 study released by JAMA Cardiology.

Hospitals across the northeastern Gulf Coast and Southeast are preparing for a "catastrophic and deadly storm surge" as Hurricane Helene approaches landfall, CBS News reported Sept. 26. 

Jarrod Johnson has been appointed CEO of Birmingham, Ala.-based UAB Callahan Eye Hospital, effective Oct. 1.