The University of Utah receives $75 million gift to build an off-campus hospital and medical campus in West Valley City, Utah.
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After joining Cleveland-based University Hospitals in 2020 as UH Cleveland Medical Center’s director of cardiothoracic transplantation, Yasir Abu-Omar, MD, PhD, in February was appointed chief of cardiac surgery at the system’s Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute. During his time at…
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Pharmaceutical giant Merck will shut down its manufacturing site in Northumberland County, Pa., resulting in 163 job losses. Layoffs will happen in three phases with the first starting in May 2025, the second in June or July 2025 and the…
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Little Rock-based Arkansas Children’s has named endocrinologist Ryan McDonough, DO, as chief medical officer for its Northwest Hospital in Springdale, Ark. Dr. McDonough most recently served as chief medical informatics officer and senior medical director at Children’s Mercy in Kansas…
Running residency programs is no small feat for health systems, requiring significant financial and operational commitments. At Sutter Health, investments in Graduate Medical Education are a strategic priority — one leaders see as essential to physician recruitment and retention far…