UC San Francisco’s chief ethics and compliance officer, Brian Smith, will retire Aug. 1. Mr. Smith was appointed CECO in October 2019 after having served as interim since 2017, according to a March 24 system news release. In the role,…
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York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health opened WellSpan Shrewsbury (Pa.) Hospital March 24, making it the system’s 11th hospital. The hospital comprises an emergency department and 10 inpatient beds. It also offers diagnostic services including laboratory testing, X-ray, computed tomography and ultrasound,…
Clearwater, Florida, March 25, 2026 – hellocare.ai, a leading AI-assisted care delivery and intelligent hospital room platform, today announced the appointment of Terry D. Shaw, CEO Emeritus of AdventHealth, to its Board of Directors. Shaw brings more than four decades…
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CMS has introduced a new model to support whole-person care for children up to age 21 enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The Accelerating State Pediatric Innovation Readiness and Effectiveness Model will run for 10 years and…
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Artesia (N.M.) General Hospital has integrated the Microsoft Dragon Copilot AI scribe into its TruBridge EHR. The hospital said its physicians are reporting more time saved on clinical documentation compared to nonintegrated clinical dictation software. “In medical school, we are…
A former employee of New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine briefly accessed patient records for reasons unrelated to their job and without authorization. The organization reported to HHS in late February that 516 patients were ensnared in the data breach,…
Approximately 2% of the nation’s 6,093 hospitals have achieved Magnet designation at least five times, according to data from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The ANCC has recognized 657 hospitals worldwide for nursing excellence, and 136 of them have been…