The Health Care Authority of the City of Huntsville — which oversees Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital Health System — received certificates of need to build two freestanding emergency departments, al.com reported July 7. X things to know: 1. The estimated cost…
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Cheryl Wathen has spent more than 36 years at Deaconess Health, and the last 16 as its CFO. In that time, she has watched the Evansville, Ind.-based system grow from a single hospital with $132 million in annual revenue to…
Members of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, Pa., are set to vote July 8 on the date and duration of what would be their first strike since 2004, according to union and hospital statements…
Susan Carroll, a 28-year Inova veteran, will become chief of clinical enterprise operations of Fairfax, Va.-based Inova Health System, a five-hospital system, effective Aug. 3. Ms. Carroll has served the system in several leadership roles, including director of business affairs…
Cardiologists and endocrinologists review wearable technology data the most often among specialties, according to a new American Medical Association survey. The “2026 AMA Multi-Country Study on Consumer Wearable Data in Clinical Practice” surveyed 2,222 physicians surveyed from January through early…
Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Health System has begun transitioning its electronic health record system to Epic, with the implementation expected to be completed by summer 2027. More than 5,000 physicians, nurses and staff across the health system’s three hospital campuses, as…
Scottsdale, Ariz., is the best place in the U.S. to rent, largely because of its quality of life, according to a July 7 ranking from personal finance website WalletHub. To develop the list of the best local rental markets, WalletHub…
Oceanside, Calif.-based Tri-City Medical Center officially became Sharp Tri-City Medical Center on July 1 as San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare assumed operations of the hospital. Under the agreement, Sharp assumed Tri-City’s assets and liabilities and plans to transform the hospital into…
John Prince, who spent nearly two decades in executive roles at Optum before moving into healthcare private equity, died June 28. He was 59. Mr. Prince died in Vero Beach, Fla., after a battle with cancer, according to his obituary.…
Lung transplant can extend survival in some patients with stage 4 lung cancer, according to a study published July 8 in JAMA. Researchers and physicians from Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine analyzed data from 404 adult patients with end-stage pulmonary disease, including…