As mergers and acquisitions take the final months of 2026 by storm, two academic health systems recently moved to acquire community hospitals. Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Health System acquired Greensburg, Pa.-based Independence Health System Oct. 1. The acquisition brought five hospitals…
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality launched a $7.95 million prize initiative Oct. 7 aimed at using AI to speed medical evidence reviews and expand the use of federal healthcare data. The agency, part of HHS, is calling the…
Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health broke ground Oct. 7 on the new home for its Baptist Health Kenneth C. Griffin Neuroscience Institute. Kenneth Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel and founder of Griffin Catalyst, donated an additional $25 million, which…
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System named Livia Agnes Veress, MD, vice chair for research in its Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics and system chief of pediatric pulmonology, effective Sept. 1. Dr. Veress also serves as a…
Lane Regional Medical Center in Zachary, La., will close its inpatient labor and delivery unit Oct. 11, according to an Oct. 7 hospital news release shared with Becker’s. The closure comes two months after the hospital eliminated 14 positions and…
Federal prosecutors have secured guilty pleas or prison sentences in at least six durable medical equipment fraud cases tied to more than $1.5 billion in claims since late May, and CMS has barred 11 DME suppliers from Medicare Advantage payments.…
Hospitals’ use of two high-yield practices for preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections, commonly known as CAUTIs, has stalled or slipped since 2017, according to research published Oct. 6 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers at the VA Ann Arbor (Mich.) Healthcare…
A bedside nurse facing competing demands may have to weigh spending their time building a discharge plan for one patient against attending to another patient’s immediate needs. But at Owensboro Health, much of that first job now goes to a…
Albany (N.Y.) Med Health System has named Stephen Sibbitt, MD, chief clinical officer, effective Oct. 19. Dr. Sibbitt will join the health system from Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health, where he served as senior vice president and regional chief…
Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health has opened a 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Bangor, Maine. Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bangor treats patients recovering from strokes, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, amputations and complex orthopedic conditions, according to an Oct. 6…