Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis (Tenn.) has named Daniel McFarland its new chief operating officer, according to a Sept. 3 post on his LinkedIn page. Mr. McFarland joins the hospital from New Brunswick, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, where he served…
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Nurses and healthcare workers at four hospitals operated by Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare hospitals held one-day strikes Sept. 3, California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, confirmed to Becker’s. The walkouts covered more than 2,200…
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health plans to add approximately 20 radiologists as Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging works through a backlog of imaging results in Las Vegas, according to an Aug. 27 report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Patients told the…
Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health recorded an operating loss of $53 million (-1.4% margin) in the first half of 2026, narrowed from an $81 million loss (-2.2% margin) in the same period last year, according to its Aug. 28 financial report. …
The Aug. 25 cyberattack targeting Boston Scientific disrupted order and shipment processing worldwide. Although the company said Sept. 3 it has resumed shipping most products at its major distribution centers, as of Sept. 4 it was still working through a…
OpenAI is committing $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cyber models, training and technical support through a new initiative called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. The effort targets resource-constrained providers of essential services, “helping frontline defenders — water utilities,…
Los Angeles-based UCLA Health has tapped Amir Iravani, MD, as director of the theranostics program. Dr. Iravani will also serve as vice chair of clinical research in the department of nuclear medicine and theranostics. He will work with the David…
Health systems closed the second quarter of 2026 with a wide spread in performance, but a substantial group of large systems stayed in the black — several of them by a comfortable margin — even as they brace for Medicaid…
In this episode, Donna Berizzi, DNP, RN, OCN, NEA-BC, Executive Director of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, & Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Cancer Service Line, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses rising oncology volumes, workforce pressures and the…
Two patients who received genetically engineered pig kidney transplants at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have since successfully undergone human donor kidney transplants, Cambridge, Mass.-based eGenesis said in a Sept. 3 update on its Expanded Access program. The cases mark…