The Palo Verde Healthcare District’s board approved a 180-day emergency department stabilization plan Feb. 19 through a management services agreement with Riverside County (Calif.), according to a county news release shared with Becker’s. Under the agreement, Riverside University Health System…
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CMS outlined next steps for its Medicare Advantage provider directory and shared plans to “beta launch” a broader National Provider Directory later this year, according to a Feb. 18 document. The agency has structured the initiative in three phases. The…
Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health reported an operating income of $998 million (10.7% operating margin) in the first half of fiscal 2026, compared to an operating income of $953 million (11.2% margin) during the same period last year, according…
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s digital care transformation model is designed asan enterprise strategic initiative — not simply an extension of ambulatory telehealth,Jess Boyle, senior director of digital care transformation and digital health at thehealth system, told Becker’s. The model is built…
Press Ganey has recognized Nancy Holecek, BSN, RN, executive vice president and chief nursing officer of RWJBarnabas Health, with its CNO of the Year Award. West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health announced the news of the award in a Feb. 20…
Nacogdoches (Texas) County Hospital District is eyeing a new lease agreement with Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare that would merge Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital with Nacogdoches Medical Center, ABC affiliate KTRE reported Feb. 19. Under the proposed deal, the two hospitals would operate…
Brunswick-based Southeast Georgia Health System has named recently retired FBI agent Jeffrey Roberts executive director of safety, security, emergency management and public affairs. Mr. Roberts assumed the position Jan. 5, according to a Feb. 19 news release from Southeast Georgia…
Eli Lilly has reported positive results from its phase 3b Together-PsO trial evaluating the combined use of Taltz (ixekizumab) and Zepbound (tirzepatide) in adults with plaque psoriasis and obesity or overweight. At 36 weeks, 27.1% of patients receiving both drugs…
New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine has launched an institutionwide initiative to support the safe and effective use of AI across its research, clinical care and education departments. The AI to Advance Medicine program includes a dean’s lecture series, a…
Detroit-based Henry Ford Health has administered Michigan’s first commercial infusion of Roctavian, a gene therapy for hemophilia A. The one-time infusion was given Jan. 15 to a man with severe hemophilia A at the infusion and chemotherapy treatment center at…