Cooper University Health Care is preparing to begin the first phase of a projected $2 billion expansion this year, according to Fitch Ratings.

A case of misidentification on social media has led to false accusations of racism against a respected physician at Dartmouth Health, the Lebanon, N.H.-based system said Feb. 24. 

Nevada reported record high numbers of Candida auris cases in January, with 69 clinical cases and 133 colonization cases, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Feb. 22.

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health reported an operating loss of $38.6 million for the first six months of fiscal year 2024 after reporting a $298 million loss over the same period last year, according to its Feb. 23 financial report. 

Los Angeles-based City of Hope launched its new mobile program — the first in the country to provide mobile comprehensive cancer prevention and screening services for 15 cancers.

Kerin Da Cruz, MSN, RN, has been named senior vice president and chief nursing officer of UF Health Jacksonville (Fla.).

The top states for women — defined by economic opportunity, health, safety and wellbeing — are largely clustered along the East Coast. 

GLP-1 drugs and artificial intelligence are helping people and organizations, respectively, slim down. And people are reluctant to credit them entirely for the results.

Most college graduates are underemployed, with 52% employed in jobs that don't typically require a bachelor's degree one year after graduation and many of them staying with those jobs for at least a decade. 

Todd LaPorte brings more than 35 years of healthcare experience to his role as CEO of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based HonorHealth, a role he's held since April 2017. While he has undoubtedly faced numerous challenges during his career, including those related to the pandemic, it was a sculpture that brought about the most difficult professional challenge he's ever faced.

Dallas-based Steward Health Care has shared a 'six-point action plan' to address its ongoing financial troubles and create a more sustainable business as the health system moves into its next phase of operations.

West Reading, Pa.-based Tower Health reported a $16.6 million operating loss in the first six months of fiscal year 2024, an 81.6% improvement from the $90.1 million loss over the same period last year, according to its Feb. 23 financial report. 

Mercy Fort Smith (Ark.) Hospital has launched a new 18-bed unit, which will have a 4:1 patient to nurse ratio. The unit is specifically designed to provide close contact, hands-on training for new graduate nurses.

Denene Prophet-Williams, BSN, has been selected to serve as the next vice president and chief nursing officer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's. 

The CFOs of two of the largest for-profit hospital systems said it is too early to see the effect of CMS' two-midnight rule, but they expressed optimism on their most recent earnings calls. 

If you could break any rule at your health system, what would it be?

There were around 134,395 cases of cancer that went undiagnosed in U.S. adults during the first 10 months of 2020 due to pandemic disruptions in screening and care, research published Feb. 22 in JAMA Oncology estimates.

Walmart has achieved a significant environmental sustainability milestone six years early, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 23.

Miami police confirmed an officer-involved shooting on the campus of 1,500-bed Jackson Memorial Hospital Feb. 23 that left one man injured.

Mountain Laurel Medical Center in Oakland, Md., named Michelle Dixon, MSN, RN, as its new chief nursing officer, as of Feb. 12, according to a news release shared with Becker's.