Aaron Puchbauer was appointed president and CEO of Taylorville (Ill.) Memorial Hospital, according to a March 6 hospital news release shared with Becker’s. Mr. Puchbauer will begin the role March 30, succeeding Kim Bourne, who retired in December after leading…
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RevCycle, Inc. has named Tracy Dudek president, effective March 2. Ms. Dudek will oversee the revenue cycle management company’s operational strategy, client partnership initiatives and performance optimization efforts, according to a March 9 news release. She joins the company from…
The newly launched Health Care Affordability Lab within New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy released a tool March 9 that allows users to explore hospital mergers, closures, ownership changes and market concentration across all 50 states.…
California’s proposed nurse-to-patient ratio regulations for psychiatric hospitals could cost more than $145.2 million statewide, including $107.7 million for salaries and benefits and $37.5 million for recruitment, training and onboarding costs, according to a March 6 letter from the California…
Patrick Avila is stepping down as CEO of Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville, Mo. He has accepted a new opportunity, he wrote in a March 8 LinkedIn post. Mr. Avila called the role at Northeast Regional “an honor.” “Rural…
In December 2024, UCI Health completed three simultaneous milestones: it integrated four newly acquired hospitals onto a unified technology platform, opened a brand-new $1.2 billion hospital, and migrated from a shared Epic instance to its own dedicated one — all…
New Orleans, La.-based Ochsner Health is expanding its digital identity verification capabilities through a partnership with CLEAR aimed at improving how patients and employees access health system accounts and information. The nonprofit health system has implemented CLEAR1, a secure identity…
WVU Health System plans to deploy AI-assisted hospital room technology across all 25 of its hospitals through a new partnership with hellocare.ai. The Morgantown, W.Va.-based health system selected the company for an enterprise-wide rollout of its intelligent hospital room platform,…
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services is acquiring online behavioral health provider Talkspace in a deal valued at about $835 million. Talkspace has a network of about 6,000 licensed behavioral health professionals serving all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and…
President Donald Trump is calling for “unprecedented coordination across government and the private sector” to increase the nation’s cybersecurity. “Our adversaries and cyber criminals … disrupt critical services like healthcare, banking, food supply, and water treatment,” Mr. Trump wrote in…