On April 29, Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian Health will open the nation’s first health and wellness center alongside a major travel hub, according to an April 14 news release shared with Becker’s. Hackensack Meridian’s Health & Wellness Center at Metropark is…
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has formed a strategic partnership with Labcorp to improve development of specialized pediatric diagnostics. The collaboration will combine CHOP’s pediatric research and clinical expertise with Labcorp’s infrastructure, scientific capabilities and commercialization expertise to identify, develop and…
Creating healthcare access is not about “squeezing the existing structure,” rather, it requires flipping the script on what access looks like, according to Jefferson Health President Baligh Yehia, MD. Jefferson Health is a Philadelphia-based, 33-hospital system with a lofty goal. “When…
More hospitals and health systems are leaning on discharge lounges to decongest EDs and improve patient experience, but there are no industrywide procedures for setting up a lounge. The first lounges were piloted around 2020 and have gained popularity over…
Union Hospital, a 103-bed facility in Elkton, Md., and part of Wilmington, Del.-based ChristianaCare, has limited obstetric and pediatric services, Cecil Whig reported April 8. ChristianaCare said in an April 8 news release provided to Becker’s that the changes stem…
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New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals has opened a 104-bed Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. The unit is designed to treat people in custody with complex medical needs by relocating clinically vulnerable detainees from Rikers…
Connecticut’s emergency department boarding rates declined to 38.1% in 2025 from 38.7% in 2024, even as patient volumes increased, according to a public dashboard from the Connecticut College of Emergency Physicians. The dashboard, launched with 2024 data and later updated…
Cincinnati Children’s is taking a broad, collaborative approach to providing pediatric care. In February, the system partnered with a fifth hospital and its fourth partnership outside of Ohio. Its partners include Lexington-based Golisano Children’s at University of Kentucky, Peyton Manning…
ChristianaCare, a four-hospital system based in Wilmington, Del., is expanding its network with specialized pediatric services from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. On April 1, the two organizations launched their affiliation at ChristianaCare’s Center for Women’s & Children’s Health in Newark,…
Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System will develop a solid organ transplant program at Tampa-based St. Joseph’s Hospital in partnership with Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine. BayCare expects to begin performing kidney transplants in 2027, according to a March 31 news release from…