Cancer care is among the most resource-intensive and strategically complex service lines in modern healthcare. In response to rising cancer incidence, workforce challenges and shifting patient expectations, health systems are rethinking how and where they deliver oncology services. From urban-adjacent…
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Ella Goss, MSN, RN, plans to retire Aug. 1 as chief executive of Anchorage-based Providence Alaska. Ms. Goss has been with Renton, Wash.-based Providence for nearly three decades, according to a June 25 Providence Alaska news release. She was the…
A growing number of small and rural hospitals are delaying cybersecurity improvements due to looming Medicaid funding cuts, according to a June 30 report from Black Book Research. The survey of 187 leaders at hospitals with fewer than 150 beds…
The FDA has eliminated Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies for all currently approved BCMA- and CD19-directed autologous CAR-T cell immunotherapies, determining that the safety program is no longer necessary to ensure the benefits of the therapies outweigh the risks. The…
The Sarah Cannon Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program at Las Vegas-based Sunrise Health’s MountainView Hospital has opened an outpatient facility to provide advanced blood cancer care. The Day Hospital, located on the MountainView Hospital campus, houses six exam rooms, six…
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx will remove reauthorization requirements for more than 60 chronic disease medications on July 1. The cuts are in addition to about 80 reauthorizations Optum Rx eliminated in March, which the company said will increase medication accessibility…
Burlington, Mass.-based Tufts Medicine has tapped Don Dizon, MD, as system chief of hematology-oncology for the cancer service line for Tufts Medicine. Dr. Dizon has also been named the Jane F. Desforges, MD, Chair in Hematology and Oncology at Tufts…
A federal judge has rejected Johnson & Johnson’s challenge to block its proposed rebate model under the 340B Drug Pricing Program, Bloomberg Law reported June 27. Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled…
Columbus (Ind.) Regional Health has filed a June 24 WARN notice that it will lay off 50 employees. Specifically, it will close its inpatient rehabilitation unit, along with its CRH Orthopedics and Sports Medicine outpatient practice, according to a June…
In this episode of the Becker’s Healthcare Podcast, Lukas Voss sits down with Michael Kurliand, MS, BSN, RN, NI-BC, Vice President, Clinical Quality and Integration at MedWand Solutions, Inc., to discuss the evolving role of telehealth in meeting the needs…