Faye Collins, DNP, RN, has been named market chief nursing officer of UnityPoint Health-Meriter in Madison, Wis., effective March 2. Dr. Collins previously served as vice president and chief nursing officer of Advocate-Aurora Medical Center Sheboygan County (Wis.), according to…
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Medical staff at Coupeville, Wash.-based WhidbeyHealth have voted “no confidence” in the company providing healthcare management services to the hospital. In a Jan. 28 letter to the board of commissioners, Chief of Staff Robert Rookstool, MD, formally notified the board…
Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center has restored its phone service a week and a half after a ransomware attack crippled the health system’s communications. UMMC brought its phones back online March 2 and started calling back patients to reschedule…
As health systems push digital transformation deeper into clinical operations, chief nursing information officers say the role of clinical informatics is shifting — though not always evenly — from reactive troubleshooting to proactive design. Two CNIOs described an industry in…
Brooks Rizzo, MSN, RN, has been appointed COO of North Sunflower Medical Center in Ruleville, Miss. Ms. Rizzo is also president-elect of the Medical Group Management Association of Mississippi, according to a Feb. 25 Facebook post from the hospital. She…
Sunita Mishra, MD, the former chief medical officer of Amazon Health Services, has been named to the same position at Neko Health, the tech startup said March 2. Neko Health was co-founded by Daniel Ek, who started music streaming giant…
Health system leaders often think of the clinical laboratory as a cost center. Why, then, are commercial laboratories so eager to purchase laboratory operations? The truth is that fee-for-service testing contributes significantly to health system profit margins, and this business…
The University of California has offered American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees-represented employees pay increases totaling nearly 32.3% over five years under its proposed contract. AFSCME represents roughly 38,800 patient care technical and service employees across UC’s 10…
Adults younger than 65 now account for 45% of all newly diagnosed colorectal cancer cases in the U.S., up from 27% in 1995, according to the American Cancer Society’s “Colorectal Cancer Statistics, 2026” report published March 2 in CA: A…
Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest nonprofit health system in Texas, has been undergoing a consumer-focused transformation aimed at expanding access. After hearing concerns from consumers who had and had not used the system about access gaps, it…