The Trump administration is directing $11.7 million through the Rural Health Transformation Program to support rural nursing care facilities and strengthen Vermont’s healthcare workforce. Vermont is committing $9 million of the funding to tuition benefits for healthcare professionals in underserved…
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AI is absorbing much of the entry-level, repetitive work that once taught generations of revenue cycle professionals the business. That raises a workforce question the industry is only beginning to answer: If the traditional training ground changes, what takes its…
Restaurant chain Chili’s Bar & Grill has committed to raising $150 million for Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The funding will be distributed over the next 15 years and used to support the new Chili’s Clinical Center at…
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown and Saint Thomas West in Nashville, Tenn., could lose their Medicare provider agreements effective Sept. 18 after the health system failed to submit an acceptable safety plan following an Aug. 14 medication error, according to…
Hospital and health system CIOs across the U.S. have made a flurry of leadership moves, including new appointments, promotions and retirements. Some executives have stepped into expanded roles within their organizations, while others have exited as health systems rethink how…
Septicemia is the most expensive condition treated in hospitals, amounting to $60 billion in annual costs, a Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project report found. The report, published February 2026, used 2022 data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s…
EHR migrations have become one of the defining capital projects of the year for hospitals and health systems, with price tags ranging from a few million dollars for a single critical access hospital to well over a billion for the…
A stroke alert sounds and the neurologist is in clinic across town. Someone starts making calls. Someone else describes the patient over the phone. The clock that costs an estimated 1.9 million brain cells a minute keeps running. There is…
Oct 14, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Joanne Lapetina, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Eagle Telemedicine
- Meagan Rhames, BSN, RN, Stroke Program Manager, Piedmont Columbus Regional
- Robin Baker, BSN, RN, SCRN, Clinical Director – Neurology & Stroke Programs, Eagle Telemedicine
- Malik Ghannam, MD, Medical Director, Neurology, Eagle Telemedicine
Healthcare CEOs average 6.4 years in the role, below the 7.1-year cross-industry average, according to the 2026 “Mid-year Volatility Report” from executive search firm Crist Kolder Associates. The executive recruiting firm tracks the backgrounds and turnover of C-suite executives across…
Franklin, Tenn.-based Williamson Health is moving forward with its proposed $700 million sale to St. Louis-based Ascension after the Williamson County Board of Commissioners approved a letter of intent with Ascension Saint Thomas, a spokesperson for the health system confirmed…