Registered nurses at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey, Calif., have voted to unionize. Of 750 eligible voters, 670 ballots were cast. The final tally showed 479 votes in favor of unionization and 191 against, according to the…
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Norman Spence has been appointed president of Kettering Health Hamilton (Ohio), he wrote in a Feb. 1 LinkedIn post. Mr. Spence most recently served as president of Kettering Health Troy (Ohio). He joined the Kettering, Ohio-based system in 2011 as…
The University of Iowa in Iowa City is providing free support and guidance through a telehealth program for professionals who care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The initiative connects healthcare providers, community agencies and other professionals through twice-monthly…
Eli Lilly plans to invest more than $3.5 billion in a new injectable medicine and device manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley site will manufacture next-generation weight-loss medicines, including retatrutide, and represents Eli Lilly’s 10th U.S. manufacturing site announced…
Press Ganey is inviting health systems to join Zero Harm 24/7, an initiative the patient safety and experience organization launched Feb. 2. Zero Harm 24/7 follows a previous initiative Press Ganey set in March 2020 — Safety 2025: Accelerate to…
Rapid City (S.D.) Medical Center signed a letter of intent Jan. 30 to join Monument Health, a Rapid City-based community health system. The parties plan to sign definitive agreements under the LOI and close the transaction this spring, according to…
Antioch, Calif.-based Sutter Delta Medical Center named Harish Rengarajan, MD, chief medical executive, effective Feb. 9. In his new role, Dr. Rengarajan will work with Sutter Delta’s CEO to strengthen clinical leadership and improve care in the East Contra Costa…
Hospital leaders have spent the last decade digitizing the front end of the revenue cycle. Patients preregister online, claims flow electronically, yet in many organizations, the last mile of getting approved insurance dollars into the bank still runs on paper,…
In this episode, Catherine Chang, Chief Quality Officer at Prisma Health, joins the podcast to discuss expanding urgent care as a strategy to improve access, how ambient listening technologies are supporting clinicians, and the tools health systems can adopt to…
In this episode, Rory KJ Murphy, MD, neurosurgical, orthopedic, and minimally invasive spine surgeon at Barrow Neurological Institute, discusses evolving debates around multilevel cervical disc replacement versus fusion, emerging research in spinal cord injury care, and the growing role of…