Since March 14, Becker’s has reported on at least 75 women named CEO of a hospital or health system. For 44 of them, it marks their first time serving as a healthcare CEO, according to Becker’s coverage and LinkedIn profiles.…
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Amazon keeps hiring for its healthcare businesses, Amazon Pharmacy and One Medical, and to beef up its healthcare AI expertise. Here are 11 healthcare-related jobs the tech giant is hiring for this month (along with their annual base pay ranges):…
HHS has tapped five senior leaders to help drive President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again initiative, with four of the five appointees having secured Senate confirmation. “I promised President Trump I would deliver meaningful reform at HHS and improve…
As hospitals confront historic workforce shortages and rising operational pressures, many health systems are shifting from short-term fixes to a longer-term reimagining of how care teams will function in an AI-enabled future. The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence…
Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University has named Tarek Salaway as the next executive vice president and CEO of the health system, effective Dec. 15. Five things to know: 1. Mr. Salaway joins OHSU from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, where…
Registered nurses at Oakland-based University of California have ratified a new four-year contract covering 25,000 nurses at 19 facilities. Voting on the agreement — which includes provisions aimed at improving retention and patient safety — ended Nov. 22, according to…
Danville, Ky.-based Ephraim McDowell Health will pay $335,000 to resolve a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky in March 2024,…
While virtual care grew 31-fold at nine health systems, total Medicare utilization there rose by just 0.25 visits per beneficiary, the American Telemedicine Association found. In the non-peer-reviewed study comparing 2019 to 2023 data, 74% of Medicare patients used telehealth…
Deborah Burley, BSN, has been appointed COO of HCA HealthONE Sky Ridge in Lone Tree, Colo., effective Dec. 1. She most recently served as COO of HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital, which includes the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery and HCA…
Following the exit of DOGE lead Elon Musk in May, the organization is still actively integrated across agencies to help reduce waste, fraud and abuse, Liz Huston, assistant press secretary for the White House, confirmed with Becker’s on Nov. 24.…