Brett Waress has been named vice president of strategy and service lines for AdventHealth Hendersonville (N.C.) and AdventHealth Polk in Columbus, N.C. The hospitals are part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth. In his new role, Mr. Waress will oversee growth…
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Building Scalable, High-Impact POCUS Workflows Across the Health System Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has reached a tidal wave of interest across medical specialties. However, during a recent Becker’s Hospital Review webinar, Dr Matt Riscinti, the System-Wide Ultrasound Director for Denver health…
WVU Medicine Wheeling (W.Va.) Hospital opened a neonatal intensive care unit Feb. 6, Fox affiliate WTOV9 reported. The upgraded unit features specialized equipment and NICU-trained staff. It will allow premature and high-risk infants to be treated locally rather than being…
CHS closed hospital sales in Tennessee and Pennsylvania, and UConn Health received state approval to acquire a Connecticut hospital. Here are five hospital M&A moves Becker’s reported on during the week of Feb. 2: 1. Detroit-based Henry Ford Health is…
With health systems now controlling the majority of U.S. hospital beds, mergers often promise better care. However, a paper published in September 2025 in Social Science & Medicine by University of Pennsylvania researchers Mark Pauly, PhD, and Lawton Burns, PhD,…
Two major academic health system developments — one collaborative, one contentious — highlight how questions of governance, control and financial stewardship are increasingly defining relationships between universities and their affiliated health systems. In Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota, Fairview Health…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and RAJ Sports, the parent company of the Portland Thorns and Portland Fire, have entered a partnership aimed at expanding medical care and wellness services for professional women athletes and strengthening community programming in Portland, Ore.…
Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth will not renew its contract with its current emergency physicians, opting to partner with Atlanta-based ApolloMD instead, CBS affiliate KCBY reported Feb. 5. PeaceHealth’s current contracts with Eugene (Ore.) Emergency Physicians will end May 30 at PeaceHealth…
In this episode, Nicole Stallings, President and CEO of the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, joins Igor Belokrinitsky and Ran Strul, Partners at Oliver Wyman, to discuss a new report warning that up to 14 Pennsylvania hospitals could close…
Pfizer has received FDA priority review for a supplemental biologics license application to expand the indication of Hympavzi (marstacimab). The proposed label expansion would include patients with hemophilia A or B ages 6 and older with inhibitors and pediatric patients…