President Donald Trump signed an executive order Aug. 7 that gives political appointees oversight of all federally funded grants. The order aims to ensure award decisions undergo “more rigorous evaluation by political appointees and subject matter experts,” the White House…
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A Florida woman was arrested on charges of posing as a nurse and treating more than 4,000 hospital patients without a license, according to an Aug. 6 Flagler County Sheriff’s Office news release. The sheriff’s office and AdventHealth Palm Coast…
Michael Lucchesi, MD, former chair of emergency medicine and chief medical officer at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York City, has been sentenced to one to three years in prison for embezzling $1.44 million from the hospital. Dr. Lucchesi…
A shooting at Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Allenmore Hospital has left one man dead and a woman injured, CBS News reported. The Tacoma Police Department received a call regarding a shooting around 7 p.m. on Aug. 6. When they arrived at…
Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings received bankruptcy court approval on Aug. 4 to abandon two of its closed Pennsylvania hospitals, Drexel Hill-based Delaware County Memorial Hospital and Ridley Park-based Taylor Hospital, should efforts to sell the properties fall through. Prospect,…
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed two lawsuits against New Lenox, Ill.-based Silver Cross Hospital, alleging the facility violated federal law when it fired two workers who did not comply with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate in 2021. The lawsuits,…
State investigators found Chicago-based Weiss Memorial Hospital was operating a “makeshift” emergency department that did not have proper resources or staffing to care for patients days before CMS terminated the hospital’s participation in the Medicare program, according to a July…
Sixteen states and Washington, D.C., filed suit against President Donald Trump and the Justice Department on Aug. 1, alleging the Trump administration has illegally blocked necessary medical care for transgender minors. The lawsuit cites Mr. Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order…
Effective Jan. 1, patients will be able to pay for concierge primary care models through tax-deductible health savings accounts due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The legislation, signed into law July 4, will allow people with high-deductible health…
Dogwood Health Trust, the compliance monitor overseeing Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s purchase of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health, said HCA might be in noncompliance with its acquisition agreement. In a July 29 certified letter, Dogwood said it had identified three instances…