Tampa-based AdventHealth Carrollwood shared plans June 18 to begin construction on a $214 million expansion that will add a new six-story patient tower to its facility to increase inpatient capacity and enhance surgical and specialty services. The project at the…
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Many of the 519 hospitals that drew federal price transparency warning letters from the Trump administration said the citations stemmed from minor technical or formatting errors in their data files — not a failure to disclose pricing — and that…
Cincinnati-based TriHealth named John Ward executive vice president and COO amid the system’s CEO transition. Mr. Ward succeeded Terri Hanlon-Bremer as COO after she was named TriHealth’s president and CEO, effective June 1, according to a June 17 health system…
Michael Cuffe, MD, executive vice president and chief clinical officer of Nashville-based HCA Healthcare, will step down from his role effective Aug. 31, according to a June 18 SEC filing. “After a distinguished career dedicated to patient care and clinical…
When both patients and providers receive reminders about end-of-life goals and care preferences, patients have 79% higher odds of an advance care planning conversation occurring within 60 days, according to a study published in JNCCN — Journal of the National…
Mark Cuban disrupted pharmaceutical pricing in 2022 with Cost Plus Drugs, a public benefit corporation that charges a flat 15% markup on generics and posts its full price list publicly, bypassing pharmacy benefit managers and intermediaries entirely. Four years later,…
Four health systems said they plan to build new hospitals in North Carolina within the past three days — the latest signal that competition for patients in one of the country’s fastest-growing states is intensifying, not leveling off. Chapel Hill,…
AI answer engines name an academic medical center as the top hospital in 46 of 50 states, according to a 50-state analysis from public relations firm 5W AI Communications. The report modeled how five AI tools — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity,…
Will Condon has been appointed CEO of Pensacola, Fla.-based Ascension Sacred Heart Health System, effective July 1. Mr. Condon previously served as president and CEO of Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola, where he led the hospital to become Northwest Florida’s only…
Virginia Medical Imaging and Medical Imaging of Fredericksburg have sued Mary Washington Healthcare Services, claiming the Fredericksburg, Va.-based health system engaged in a campaign to undermine the imaging provider through contract disputes, physician recruitment efforts and lease negotiations. According to…