Aaron Hajart was appointed president and CEO of Community Medical Center in Toms River, N.J., part of West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health. Mr. Hajart, who currently serves as COO, will begin the new role Jan. 1, according to a health…
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Alan Vierling, DNP, MSN, has been appointed chief nursing executive at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, N.M. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Vierling has served in executive leadership roles at several hospitals and health systems. He is…
Medline priced its upsized initial public offering at $29 per share for 216,034,482 shares of Class A common stock, according to a Dec. 16 news release from the company. Shares are expected to begin trading Dec. 17 on the Nasdaq…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic developed an AI model that identified twice as many cases of advanced chronic liver disease in asymptomatic patients compared to standard diagnostic methods. The model analyzed data from 11,513 patients undergoing routine electrocardiograms to detect electrical…
The FDA has approved GSK’s Exdensur (depemokimab-ulaa) as an add-on maintenance treatment for severe asthma with an eosinophilic phenotype in patients ages 12 and older. The approval is based on data from the drugmaker’s SWIFT-1 and SWIFT-2 trials, which showed…
The FDA approved a label change for Pfizer’s birth control injection Depo-Provera on Dec. 13, adding a warning about the risk of meningioma — a brain tumor — to two versions of the drug. The update applies to Depo-Provera CI…
The share of external CEO hires in the S&P 500 nearly doubled in 2025, reaching the highest level in eight years, according to a Nov. 24 report from The Conference Board. The report — developed in collaboration with executive search…
Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is the latest health system to report being impacted by an early 2025 data breach involving Oracle Health. In April, the EHR vendor notified the six-hospital system about the January hack of legacy Cerner…
CVS Health Ventures led a $35 million Series C funding round for Duluth, Ga.-based Codoxo, a company focused on generative AI-powered payment integrity, according to a Dec. 17 press release. Echo Health Ventures joined the round as a new investor,…
Incremental improvements in nurse compensation and turnover rates during the first half of 2025 signal that the labor market for nurses is entering a period of greater stabilization, according to a new SullivanCotter report. The report, published Dec. 16, is…