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Dallas-based Methodist Health System ranks in the 84th percentile nationally for retention due to what its chief human resources officer calls the organization’s “secret sauce:” culture. The system, which employs more than 12,000 people, was also certified as a Great…

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has reached a $45 million settlement with CVS Health and its pharmacy benefit manager subsidiary, resolving three lawsuits over alleged regulatory and competitive misconduct. The lawsuits concerned allegations related to consumer communications about pending legislation,…

The FDA has released draft guidance outlining an approval pathway for individualized therapies aimed at ultra-rare diseases, building on a framework first outlined by agency leaders in November. The proposed pathway, dubbed the “Plausible Mechanism Framework,” would allow sponsors to…

MultiCare Yakima (Wash.) Memorial Hospital has begun posting positions to replace Teamsters Local 760 members who have been on strike for more than a month, according to NBC affiliate KNDO and CBS affiliate KIMA.  In a statement shared with Becker’s,…

Medical experts believe measles-related hospitalizations in South Carolina are significantly higher than reported, since the state does not require hospitals to report admissions for the virus, ProPublica reported Feb. 20.  South Carolina is experiencing the nation’s largest measles outbreak since…

Houston-based St. Luke’s Health named Augusto “Gus” Sepulveda, MD, chief medical officer of its Houston market and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center. Dr. Sepulveda, an internal medicine physician and clinical informatics specialist, will step into his new role March 2. …

Health systems are responding to fragmented behavioral healthcare delivery in different ways: expanding telepsychiatry in rural states, building pediatric health hubs that integrate mental and physical health on one campus, launching behavioral health urgent cares, and investing in navigators and…

Joseph Marino was named CFO of Odessa (Texas) Regional Medical Center on Feb. 23, according to a Feb. 21 LinkedIn post. Prior to his new role, Mr. Marino served as CFO and vice president of finance for Lewiston, Maine-based St.…

The FDA has approved Bracco’s gadopiclenol-based contrast agent, Vueway, for IV MRI imaging in neonates and infants. Vueway is a macrocyclic gadolinium-based contrast agent that delivers effective image enhancement at half the gadolinium dose used in other approved macrocyclic agents,…

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