In this episode, Jose Azar, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Quality and Clinical Service Line Officer at Hackensack Meridian Health and Professor of Medicine at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, discusses launching the Agile Institute to rapidly implement evidence…
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Just over six years after exiting bankruptcy, Philadelphia-based St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children is focused on strategic growth and charting a path toward long-term sustainability. “Coming out of bankruptcy, it’s much more detail oriented in terms of where the uses…
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Thomas Quatroche Jr., PhD, CEO of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Erie County Medical Center Corp., has been named the next president and CEO of the Healthcare Association of New York State. He will join the Healthcare Association of New York State in…
Megan Pfarr has been appointed the inaugural CEO for Hospital Sisters Health System Rehabilitation Hospital, which is set to open in Green Bay, Wis., later in 2026. The announcement was made in partnership with Lifepoint Rehabilitation, according to a March…
Port Townsend, Wash.-based Jefferson Healthcare has settled a lawsuit that claimed the hospital and its leadership violated the state’s open public meetings law, the hospital’s CEO said in a March 10 statement shared with Becker’s. Here are five things to…
Hospitals are urging Colorado lawmakers to reconsider a proposal to cut about $50 million from a state program that helps teaching hospitals cover indirect costs associated with training resident physicians. The proposal would reduce funding for Colorado’s Medicaid indirect medical…
Brian Melear, RN, CEO of HCA Florida Raulerson Hospital in Okeechobee, has retired after nearly 27 years with the hospital. Mr. Melear joined the hospital in 1999 as a patient care assistant and later served in several clinical and leadership…
Mark Clement, president and CEO of Cincinnati-based TriHealth, plans to retire June 30 at the end of the health system’s fiscal year after 11 years leading the organization. TriHealth COO Terri Hanlon-Bremer, MSN, RN, has been appointed his successor, according…
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