UT Health San Antonio has received a $6.5 million gift to establish the Harvey E. Najim Pediatric Health Scholars Program and strengthen its healthcare workforce. Five things to know: 1. The program will support training across multiple pediatric disciplines, including…
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Rochester Regional Health’s chief medical officer, Robert Mayo, MD, will step down from his role March 31, according to a March 27 LinkedIn post from the Rochester, N.Y.-based system. Dr. Mayo joined Rochester Regional in 2002 and has served as…
Penn Medicine Lancaster (Pa.) General Health has named Donise Musheno, RN, associate COO, according to a March 26 post on her LinkedIn page. Ms. Musheno has been with Lancaster General since 2019. She most recently served as vice president of…
Dental service organizations are no longer an emerging model: They are a permanent and expanding part of the dental landscape. According to the American Dental Association Health Policy Institute, DSO affiliation among U.S. dentists increased from 7.2% in 2015 to…
A federal judge has reduced Theranos co-founder Elizabeth Holmes’ prison sentence by one year, according to court documents obtained by Becker’s. The reduction reflects a 2023 sentencing guideline change that grants leniency to first-time offenders convicted of certain nonviolent crimes. …
HCA Florida Healthcare has launched a new air ambulance service aimed at cutting emergency transport times nearly in half for rural communities in western North Central Florida. The service, HCA Florida AirLife, began transporting patients last week through a partnership…
Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health said it is seeing measurable gains from bringing revenue cycle operations in-house, according to its March 19 financial report. The 27-hospital system said insourcing revenue cycle operations resulted in days in accounts receivable of 56 days…
Across many health systems, anesthesia is still approached primarily as a staffing problem. It is not. It is an enterprise operating model problem. When anesthesia is treated as a narrow labor issue rather than a strategic platform, the consequences extend…
Indiana (Noblesville) Orthopedic Institute is expanding by opening a new clinic, adding a physician and growing its service lines. The organization is opening an outpatient clinic in Greenwood, Ind., on March 30, according to a March 24 news release from…
Valdosta, Ga.-based SGMC Health launched a platform that allows patients to order and track their hospital meals digitally. The platform, MyDining, enables patients to order meals using in-room tablets, personal devices or assistance from a patient dining associate or call…