Katherine Bourbeau-Medinilla, MD, was named the first chief population health officer and associate chief medical officer of Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, Calif. In this newly established senior executive role, Dr. Bourbeau-Medinilla will oversee clinical strategy and physician alignment…
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Hartford HealthCare’s St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., has received a $15 million gift from the estate of Neil Mellen to expand and modernize its inpatient oncology unit. The donation — one of the largest in Hartford HealthCare’s history…
Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours Children’s shared plans in early December to open an institute for maternal-fetal health aimed at improving care for expectant mothers facing serious fetal diagnoses. The Institute for Maternal Fetal Health at Nemours Children’s first location is set…
The University of California will distribute $3.5 million in state-backed funding to support medical education and expand the physician workforce, according to a Dec. 22 news release from the university. The support stems from Proposition 35, a voter-approved 2024 initiative…
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against Advocate Aurora Health, alleging the system unlawfully fired a nurse in 2021 over its COVID-19 vaccine policy. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern…
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare–GoHealth Urgent Care has opened a new center in Killingly, Conn., expanding access to same-day care in the region. The facility is part of a 39-location urgent care network serving more than 500,000 patients annually across Connecticut, according…
The FDA has approved Novo Nordisk’s pill version of Wegovy, making it the first oral GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy cleared for chronic weight management. The once-daily 25-milligram oral semaglutide is indicated to reduce excess body weight, maintain long-term weight loss…
U.S. healthcare spending is on a path that has finance leaders increasingly uneasy. With national health expenditures projected to reach $8.6 trillion by 2033 — and consume more than 20% of the nation’s GDP — health system leaders say the…
More than 141,000 Arizona residents will receive letters this week notifying them that their medical debt has been relieved. So far, Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs’ administration and nonprofit Undue Medical Debt have eliminated $642 million in medical debt for 485,000…
Artificial intelligence has quickly become a fixture in healthcare conversations, particularly around clinical documentation, workforce efficiency and patient safety. But for James Dover, president and CEO of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health, the technology’s most underexplored opportunity may be at…