Before Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, took over as chief digital information officer of Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health earlier this year, she raised something with her CEO before she agreed to the role: She wanted to keep practicing medicine. Dr. Lozovatsky is…
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Amid ongoing leadership restructuring, hospitals and health systems are adjusting C-suite roles through a mix of consolidations, expanded responsibilities and select leadership exits. Becker’s has reported on the following leadership changes — driven by shifting priorities, systemwide realignments and executive…
Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health plans to build its first hospital in South Carolina, a neighborhood facility in the Lake Wylie community of York County. The health system has purchased land on Highway 557 for the project and projects a 2031…
Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare has sued the California Nurses Association, an affiliate of National Nurses United, as well as NNU, alleging the union targeted its CEO and other executives and their families with harassment and intimidation near their homes. The…
Saratoga (N.Y.) Hospital’s pharmacy has become the first hospital-based inpatient pharmacy in the country to earn Age-Friendly Pharmacy Recognition from the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists — the result of a process that started with a much smaller question: What…
Backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, 17 researchers filed a complaint Sept. 16 against NIH, accusing the agency of infringing their First Amendment rights by allegedly rejecting funding to grants with certain words or phrases. The proposed class-action lawsuit…
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has signed and served subpoenas compelling Oracle executive chair Larry Ellison and co-CEO Mike Sicilia to testify about the company’s $27 billion VA EHR contract. The committee voted 19-0 to force the testimony after…
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions convened Sept. 16 to consider three of President Donald Trump’s nominees for top HHS posts: Nicole Saphier, MD, for surgeon general, Chris Klomp for HHS deputy secretary, and Timothy Westlake, MD,…
The hospitals on the U.S. News & World Report pediatric Honor Roll rarely change. Neither, it turns out, do the people running their IT departments — eight of the 11 CIOs here have held their current title since at least…
Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health has restored telephone service across all of its locations as the health system continues recovering systems affected by a cybersecurity incident. The health system said in a Sept. 16 update that patients can again call physician…