Skip Gjolberg, president and CEO of WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital in Buckhannon, W.Va., will step down from his role in mid-March, My Buckhannon reported Jan. 29. John Foster, vice president of provider network services for WVU Medicine’s central market,…
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UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., will begin accepting admissions to its hospital-at-home program Feb. 4 after pausing new admissions during a partial government shutdown, the health system confirmed to Becker’s. The health system stopped accepting new hospital-at-home patients…
Josh Gill was appointed COO of Overland Park (Kan.) Regional Medical Center, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare. Mr. Gill began his new role in January after serving as COO of Lee’s Summit (Mo.) Medical Center, another HCA facility, according…
The West Lafayette (Ind.) City Council approved a rezoning request required for Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health to build a $200 million full-service hospital and medical building. The 8-0 vote was given at a Feb. 2 city council meeting. The…
President Donald Trump signed the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act into law Feb. 3 after the House voted 217-214 to approve it, ending a three-and-a-half-day partial government shutdown. The vote saw 21 Republicans reach…
Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD, is assuming his dual role as dean of NYU Grossman School of Medicine and CEO of NYU Langone Health amid widespread financial and operational pressures in healthcare — but with optimism grounded in the New York…
David Quirke has been named chief digital and information officer for Huntington, W.Va.-based Marshall Health Network. Mr. Quirke stepped into the role Oct. 1. He had been serving as Marshall Health Network’s interim CIO since September 2024. In this role,…
Although up to 40% of the nation’s nurse workforce have said they plan to leave the industry by 2029, the demand-and-supply gap for registered nursing services is projected to decrease. In 2024, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing…
Massachusetts has the most hospitals per 100,000 rural residents while Delaware has the fewest, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill report. The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-Chapel Hill used CMS’ rural…
Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health’s credit rating was upgraded to “A1” from “A2” by Moody’s. The upgrade reflects Lee Health’s successful conversion from a public entity to a private, nonprofit health system, Moody’s said in its Jan. 30 report. The…