Lacey Crabb, MSN, has been appointed hospital administrator of Ascension Calumet Hospital in Chilton, Wis. Ms. Crabb brings extensive experience in rural healthcare leadership, according to a June 22 Facebook post from the hospital. She will serve as a key…
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The New England Journal of Medicine has retracted the clinical trial publication behind Amgen’s rare disease drug Tavneos after two of the study’s authors requested the retraction over undisclosed changes to how patient outcomes were assessed. In a June 29…
A Mississippi Chancery Court judge ordered June 29 the state’s Division of Medicaid to release a scheduled payment of around $2.4 million to Greenwood (Miss.) Leflore Hospital. The order came after the case was sent back to the chancery court…
Huntsville (Texas) Memorial Hospital has appointed Terry Scoggin as its new CEO. Mr. Scoggin has served as the hospital’s interim CEO since January, according to a June 15 hospital news release. He brings more than 15 years of leadership experience…
Phoenix-based Banner Health has signed an asset purchase agreement to sell Banner Lassen Medical Center in Susanville, Calif., to an affiliate of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health. The transaction is expected to close in December, pending regulatory approvals, according to a…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is moving beyond predictive AI models toward systems that support clinical decision-making, health system leaders said at its recent AI Research Summit. More than 750 researchers, clinicians, AI scientists and engineers attended the June 4-5 event…
Some surgical assistants are earning 25 times what the surgeons make thanks to arbitration laws, The New York Times reported June 29. Here is what to know. 1. Surgeons and surgical assistants have been capitalizing on the arbitration rule inside…
Health systems’ AI champions — the people who develop novel uses for the technology and sell their peers on its value — don’t always come from the C-suite, or even the IT department. Some are bedside clinicians finding new uses…
The FDA has released the names of panel members who will weigh in on whether seven popular peptides should be more widely available for pharmacy compounding. The new roster mainly includes physicians who run wellness, longevity and regenerative medicine clinics…
American hospitals are under extraordinary pressure: margins remain thin, workforce shortages persist, emergency department boarding continues to frustrate patients and clinicians alike, and many organizations are struggling simply to maintain financial stability. Hospital leaders often attribute these challenges to forces…