ACA open enrollment begins Nov. 1, and health system leaders are preparing for a more unstable coverage landscape. In late September, CMS said it had canceled plan year 2026 ACA policies for about 760,000 people. The agency also temporarily paused…
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Fredericksburg, Va.-based Mary Washington Healthcare has opened the Mary Washington Interventional Radiology Outpatient Clinic on the Stafford Hospital campus and hired its first interventional radiologist. The outpatient clinic provides evaluation, consultation and treatment for a range of conditions using imaging…
Chicago-based Roseland Community Hospital will suspend labor and delivery services, citing financial pressures on safety-net hospitals. The unit will close by the end of October, and staff are working to transition current obstetrics patients to other providers, ABC affiliate WLS…
Wakefield, R.I.-based South County Health has become the first healthcare organization in Rhode Island to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network. The network is a group of independent organizations vetted by Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and granted access to its…
George Sprinkel is joining Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health as vice president and CFO of the system’s Durham market, a system spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s. Mr. Sprinkel joins Duke Health after serving as senior vice president and CFO of Baltimore-based University…
Adam Gobin has been appointed vice president at Valley, Ala.-based Access Medical Clinic, according to a Sept. 29 announcement shared with Becker’s. Previously, Mr. Gobin was assistant vice president at Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System. Prior to his tenure at…
Fort Walton Beach-based HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital named Evgenia Slavcheva, MD, chief medical officer. Dr. Slavcheva, an internal medicine and pediatrics physician executive, will help advance clinical excellence, strengthen the physician experience and support high-quality patient care, Get The…
The Legionnaires’ disease rate climbed 19% in 2025 to nearly its 2018 peak, according to provisional CDC data. The CDC monitors legionellosis cases through two surveillance systems — the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System and the Supplemental Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance…
The American Joint Replacement Registry became the first registry to accept patient data through Epic’s Community Registries framework, allowing participating hospitals to automate the submission of joint replacement data. Carbondale-based Southern Illinois Healthcare is the first health system to use…
Watsonville (Calif.) Community Hospital expects to meet its October payroll obligations, CFO Julie Peterson told Becker’s, but the hospital’s August board executive summary warned of difficulties in forecasting how it will meet future payroll and payable obligations beyond the near…