Northwell’s Huntington (N.Y.) Hospital named Patrick Socias, MSN, RN, vice president and chief nursing officer. “Patrick’s career reflects the essence of nursing leadership across Northwell,” Launette Woolforde, EdD, DNP, RN, executive vice president and chief nursing officer at Northwell Health,…
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Liberal, Kan.-based Southwest Medical Center named Judy Lathen, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer. In her role, she will provide leadership for nursing services and support the hospital’s continued commitment to safe, compassionate and high-quality care, according to a Sept. 30…
Henry Ford Jackson (Mich.) Hospital named Syed Hussain, MD, chief medical officer and Joie Linn Nelson, DNP, RN, chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services, according to a from Detroit-based system LinkedIn post. Dr. Hussain most recently…
Six physician medical groups are speaking out after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described AI as offering “a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country,” and has the power to “free us from…
Conifer Health Solutions will lay off more than 1,000 employees after its contract with CommonSpirit ends, and Oracle Health unveiled new capabilities for its revenue cycle management portfolio. Here are 12 revenue cycle updates that Becker’s reported in September:
Hiram Jacob was named president of Ascension Providence in Waco, Texas. Mr. Jacob most recently served as COO of Chippenham Hospital, a 466-bed tertiary care facility in Richmond, Va., according to a Sept. 22 news release. There he provided executive…
A coalition of more than 2,500 physicians is calling on the Senate to reject the nomination of Heidi Overton, MD, to lead the FDA, citing concerns about her record on vaccines and abortion. The Sept. 30 letter, organized by the…
Google AI’s flu forecasting model was the top-performing model among 39 at forecasting flu-related hospital admissions during the 2025-26 season, the CDC found. The CDC’s FluSight program combines weekly submissions from government, industry and academic teams that predict flu hospital…
From explaining workforce reductions to service line closures to ongoing payer negotiations, hospital CEOs are being asked to deliver difficult news more often than ever. The hard conversations are not going away. Nearly 40% of hospitals were already losing money…
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