Water testing has revealed elevated levels of Legionella bacteria at Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospital's Siena Campus in Henderson, Nev., ABC affiliate KTNV reported Jan. 17.

Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care has expanded its stroke care network to include Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital in Manistique, Mich., through a stroke-specific telehealth platform.

Idaho, Missouri and Kansas have been granted permission to file a lawsuit aimed at restricting access to the abortion medication mifepristone, The Hill reported Jan. 16. 

The following hospital and health system executive moves have been shared with or reported by Becker's since Dec. 24:

Here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases that Becker's has reported since Dec. 27: 

Since taking over as ProMedica CFO in May 2023, Terry Metzger has led the health system through a notable financial recovery, most recently transforming a $31 million loss (-4.2% margin) in the third quarter of 2023 into a $32.4 million operating gain (4% margin) in Q3 2024. 

Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine saw a busy year of growth in 2024, bringing the health system's portfolio to 25 hospitals after it finalized the purchase of Weirton (W.Va.) Medical Center on Jan. 1. The system also received board approval to invest $400 million into new healthcare facilities across the state. It's this kind of growth that WVU Medicine CFO Nick Barcellona told Becker's Healthcare Podcast he wants to carry into 2025. 

A surgeon's stress at the beginning of a procedure might affect clinical outcomes, according to research published Jan. 15 in JAMA. 

Respiratory illness activity remains elevated across the U.S., with emergency department visits and positive test rates rising for COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, according to the CDC. 

  Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health has appointed two new leaders to key IT C-suite roles.

Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health will mark its sixth anniversary as a system this March. Serving eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, the system operates 14 hospitals and several ambulatory sites. Since its founding, community-based care has been central to its long-term strategy — a focus that proved critical during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ongoing legal conflict between Epic Systems, a leading EHR provider, and Particle Health, a health data exchange startup, has unfolded over several key events:

Starkville, Miss.-based OCH Regional Medical Center is set to launch a new EHR system on Jan. 27, replacing multiple existing platforms with a unified one developed by Cerner. 

While unionization among healthcare workers and professionals is a familiar phenomenon, resident physicians and fellows joining unions has only grown in recent years. Indeed, since the start of 2025 alone, at least five groups of resident physicians and fellows have opted to form unions at their health systems.

While at least two hospitals have closed in 2025, several health systems have announced expansion projects or new hospitals this month.

Corwin Harper, who most recently served as CEO of Shreveport, La.-based Ochsner LSU Health, will rejoin Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente on Jan. 21.

Elizabeth Flail, DO, has been named chief of staff at Valdosta, Ga.-based SGMC Health. 

The largest buyer of pharmaceuticals in the U.S. — Medicare, which covered more than 67 million people as of April — has bargaining power in an industry worth $640 billion. 

East Lansing-based Michigan State University and Detroit-based Henry Ford Health signed a master services agreement to advance their 30-year partnership, effective Jan. 1. 

Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of USC has named Elise Myers as chief revenue officer, according to a Jan. 17 post on her LinkedIn page.