Key Takeaways Genetic testing is rapidly moving genomics from a niche specialty to becoming more integrated into mainstream clinical practice. Once deployed primarily to diagnose rare and inherited conditions after initial clinical evaluations, genetic insights are now shaping real-time treatment…
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Minneapolis-based Allina Health shut down its infusion unit at St. Paul’s United Hospital on Sept. 5, the St. Paul Pioneer Press and FOX 9 KMSP reported. The closure comes after the system told Becker’s it was shuttering four Allina clinics…
Omaha, Neb.-based CHI Health is building its own pipeline of clinical support staff through a new program that offers free training, certification and guaranteed employment to aspiring certified nursing assistants. The goal of the CNA Advance Program is twofold: Develop…
New York City-based NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center has appointed two leaders for its newly established Gastrointestinal Cancer Center. Anirban Maitra, MD, and Manuel Hidalgo, MD, will serve as co-directors of the center, according to a Sept. 5 news…
Sweeping policy changes are reshaping reimbursement and funding, putting unprecedented pressure on operating margins. Hospitals can no longer afford inefficiency in how they manage costly assets like operating rooms, staffed beds or infusion chairs. The stakes are high: patient access,…
Health system leaders are evaluating what new AI tools their organizations should integrate into their Epic EHRs, following several announcements at Epic’s annual User Group Meeting in Verona, Wis. Epic unveiled a range of new features designed to enhance clinical,…
The 2022 merger of Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health, then dually based in Downers Grove, Ill., and Milwaukee, created one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country in Advocate Health. “We are poised to push…
Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare has appointed Kay Yoon-Flannery, DO, as chief of women’s oncology at the AtlantiCare Cancer Care Institute in Egg Harbor Township, N.J.. She will lead alignment of breast, gynecologic and genetic cancer services across the system, according…
Rachel Kemp, DNP, MSN, has been named chief nursing officer of Singing River Health System in Ocean Springs, Miss. Dr. Kemp joins the system from Memphis, Tenn.-based Regional One Health, where she served as vice president of patient care services.…
Froedtert South and Carthage College, both based in Kenosha, Wis., have partnered to expand the health system’s workforce. The organizations are offering fully funded certified nurse aide training and guaranteed employment for program graduates, according to a Sept. 5 joint…