We talk a lot about what it takes to have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. We talk much less about what it takes for a mother to be healthy, especially when it comes to her mental health. That…
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When David Huffstutler became president and CEO of Austin, Texas-based St. David’s HealthCare in February 2011, the system had about 60 sites of care, six hospitals and a couple of freestanding emergency departments. Today, St. David’s has about 200 sites…
Little Rock, Ark.-based Baptist Health has launched Arkansas’ first centralized OB Hub, using AI-driven technology to continuously monitor mothers and babies across its seven delivery hospitals, which care for more than 6,600 babies annually. The system provides labor and delivery…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare doesn’t plan any significant changes to its market footprint, but the system will be “opportunistic” if acquisition opportunities emerge, CEO Sam Hazen said. Mr. Hazen discussed the system’s market strategy during HCA’s Oct. 27 third-quarter earnings…
University of California San Diego Health is partnering with wearable technology company Oura on a multiyear clinical study that will evaluate whether continuous biometric data from the Oura Ring can improve outcomes for patients undergoing bariatric surgery or starting GLP-1…
HHS said it does not intend to take enforcement action against state-licensed pharmacies, federal facilities or licensed physicians that compound drugs using six unapproved peptides, as long as they meet a set of conditions, according to an interim policy scheduled…
David Shimp was named president and CEO of San Antonio-based Methodist Healthcare, effective Dec. 1, according to an Oct. 28 news release shared with Becker’s. Mr. Shimp has served as CEO of HCA Florida Osceola Hospital in Kissimmee since December…
Prisma Health is making urgent care central to its growth strategy. In September, South Carolina’s largest health system announced plans to add 36 centers statewide, more than doubling a network it had already expanded from four to 31 locations. The…
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FMOL Health, a 10-hospital system based in Baton Rouge, La., measures two patient safety metrics most other hospitals do not: whether patients leave the hospital as mobile as they arrived, and whether they acquire any bloodstream infection. CMS requires hospitals…
Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health is working to make primary care, rather than the emergency department, the main way patients enter its system, executives said during the system’s fiscal 2026 investor call Oct. 26. Health systems have historically treated the emergency…