Kathryn Raethel has been appointed president and CEO of Castle Medical Center in Oahu, Hawaii, effective Dec. 5, according to an Adventist Health news release.
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Over the past two years, the number of independent hospitals joining systems through full asset mergers has rapidly increased. According to Irving Levin Associates, the number of transactions is on track to top 100 deals in 2011, up from only…
Tom Jackiewicz, president and CEO of UC San Diego Health System, will resign in December, according to a San Diego Union-Tribune report.
Purcell (Okla.) Municipal Hospital has named Lisa Roberts COO, according to a Purcell Register report.
A jury has ordered Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, to pay $52 million to MRI Associates for violating a partnership agreement, according to a BusinessWeek report. This is the second time MRI Associates’ lawsuit against St. Alphonsus…
A conflict between Albany, Ga.’s Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital and a physician practice has grown in size and scope that it now is being heard in the U.S. Supreme Court, with arguments centering around whether police investigators have immunity from…
Beverly (Mass.) Hospital received more than $1.4 million in donations in the first phase of its Operating Room Campaign to renovate three surgical suites, according to a Beverly Citizen report.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., has opened a new recovery area for transradial catheterization patients, according to a hospital news release.
The number of U.S. adults using their mobile phones for health information or tools has more than doubled from 12 percent to 26 percent in the past year, according to a Manhattan Research news release.
Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are among the healthcare organizations that received a combined $34 million from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to develop, test and spread the use of new modules of the Comprehensive…