Kate Kellogg, MD, is joining St. Louis-based Ascension as vice president of patient safety after serving Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health for nearly 13 years. Dr. Kellogg announced the news in a Sept. 29 LinkedIn post. After completing her emergency medicine…
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James Perez has been appointed vice president of human resources at HCA Florida Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, effective Sept. 28. Mr. Perez joins HCA Florida Memorial Hospital from HCA Florida Putnam Hospital in Palatka, where he served as vice president…
Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health has restored its MyChart patient portal as it recovers from a cybersecurity incident, the health system said in a Sept. 29 update. Patients can again use MyChart, which had been down since Sept. 1, to schedule…
A September 2026 American Medical Association Policy Research Perspective analyzed Decision Resources Group data on PBM and insurer market shares from 2022 to 2024. Together, the four largest PBMs controlled 75% of the national market, up from 70% in 2022.…
Kansas City, Kan.-based The University of Kansas Health System has signed a definitive agreement to acquire full ownership of St. Francis Campus and its affiliated care sites in Topeka from Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ardent Health. Four things to know: 1. The…
Hospital outpatient departments were paid an average of 102% more per unit than physician offices for the same physician-administered medications, a premium that adds up to about $12.7 billion a year in employer health spending, according to new research from…
Forbes named 900 companies to its 2026 list of the World’s Best Employers, including 62 healthcare organizations. Forbes worked with market research firm Statista on the seventh annual ranking, published Sept. 29. Statista surveyed more than 300,000 employees in more…
Elon Kotlar, MD, has been named chief health informatics officer at Greenville, N.C.-based ECU Health. In this role, Dr. Kotlar will oversee the health system’s informatics strategy focusing on advancing the use of clinical informatics, analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital…
It’s the end of the world as we know it; panic and mass hysteria. That is roughly the tone of recent coverage of the pharmacy changes arriving in 2027, and it is worth turning the volume down, because the truth…
For Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health, urgent care has become a larger part of its growth strategy. The system is acquiring 36 urgent care centers across South Carolina from Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health, a deal expected to close Nov. 1 that…