Glendale-based Ascension Wisconsin has expanded its Dispensary of Hope program to four pharmacies, ABC affiliate WISN reported Jan. 28. The program is now available at nine Ascension pharmacy locations, with two new sites in Franklin and one each in Elmbrook,…
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Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare added about 100 facilities to its outpatient footprint in 2025 and the system heads into 2026 and 2027 with “significant capital in the pipeline” for outpatient development, CEO Sam Hazen said. The 190-hospital system now has…
U.S. life expectancy at birth reached 79 years in 2024, an all-time high, according to data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Four notes: 1. The death rate for the U.S. population declined by nearly 4% in 2024,…
Faculty from Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Spokane are now providing telehealth services to Medicare patients nationwide through a new collaboration with Praventa Health. More than a dozen WSU pharmacy faculty members are participating in…
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has implemented a 24/7 virtual care model to manage after-hours patient needs across 63 primary care practices in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The systemwide change eliminates most on-call duties for primary care physicians by routing after-hours calls…
Many of the nation’s largest health systems began 2026 with a flurry of clinical executive appointments. Birmingham, Ala.-based UAB Health System and Gainesville, Fla.-based UF Health both named inaugural chief nursing officers. Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health and Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the state’s agencies and universities to freeze all new H-1B visa petitions through May 2027. In a Jan. 27 letter, Mr. Abbott instructed Texas agencies and universities to review the H-1B program, which was created…
A woman who repeatedly posed as a registered nurse to gain employment in multiple states has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison. Leticia Gallarzo, 51, formerly of Wayland, Mich., was sentenced Jan. 26 to 75 months…
Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare is looking to deepen its Illinois footprint with an asset purchase agreement to acquire Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Alliance’s Franciscan Health Olympia Fields (Ill.). The deal, entered Jan. 16, would make the hospital Prime’s ninth in Illinois,…
AdventHealth Castle Rock (Colo.) has launched a virtual nursing model aimed at streamlining inpatient admissions and enhancing bedside care. The virtual admit nursing program, now live, is a nursing-led model wherein trained virtual nurses complete or assist with inpatient admissions,…