Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health has promoted Caitlynn Dargan to vice president and chief of staff. Ms. Dargan previously held leadership roles across finance, operations, strategy and the Office of the President and CEO, according to a Nov. 3 LinkedIn post…
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When Ballad Health formed in 2018 through the merger of Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health System, the Johnson City, Tenn.-based system set out to serve a largely rural region with a lower cost structure. In the years since…
The Epic bill most health systems plan for arrives with go-live. Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health’s May 30 launch came with $24.5 million in one-time operating expenses through June, tied to equipment, staff and provider training, and a temporary reduction in…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is a 190-hospital, for-profit system that reported $75.6 billion in revenues in 2025. Here are the CFO and assistant CFO leadership changes the system and its affiliates have seen in 2026: 1. Jason Schwan was named CFO of…
States with heavier chronic disease burdens tend to report somewhat lower rates of skipped checkups, according to a Becker’s analysis of three new KFF datasets. Chronic conditions typically require regular physician visits, which likely keeps patients connected to routine care. …
AI agents that can log in to systems, retrieve data and take actions on their own are moving into health system operations. For the executives responsible for securing hospitals, they represent a new kind of user: one that works around…
Zia Diagnostic Imaging, an Albuquerque-based radiology group, sued Albuquerque-based Lovelace Health System on Oct. 15, alleging the health system breached their exclusive contract by hiring away its interventional radiologists and failed to address disruptions from a 2023 cyberattack, according to…
Registered nurses at Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka (Calif.) and Providence Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna, Calif., ratified a three-year contract Oct. 30. The agreement covers more than 700 nurses across the two hospitals and runs from July 21, 2026,…
Patients who could not tolerate semaglutide or tirzepatide, or who lost little weight on them, lost substantial weight after bariatric surgery, according to a Cleveland Clinic study published Nov. 3 in Annals of Surgery. Here are four things to know:
St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital is asking a Florida judge to throw out most of Maya Kowalski’s remaining claims ahead of a retrial in the lawsuit made famous by the Netflix documentary “Take Care of Maya.” In…