Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and OrthoCarolina have extended their longstanding affiliation to expand orthopedic services. Through the new agreements, Atrium Health’s Musculoskeletal Institute will align with OrthoCarolina, focusing on improving outcomes, patient experience and efficiency, according to a July 13…
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Brian Dean was appointed executive vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Texas System, effective Aug. 1. According to a July 10 release, Mr. Dean most recently served as executive vice president for health affairs at UTHealth Houston…
California nurses represented by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United staged a protest July 13 outside the American Hospital Association Leadership Summit in Denver, citing concerns about Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente’s accelerating use of AI in patient…
340B covered entities purchased $100 billion in outpatient drugs in 2025, according to new data from HRSA released July 13. It marks the program’s largest annual total on record, continuing a run of year-over-year growth from $53.7 billion in 2022…
Ten medications accounted for about 28.6% of the $100 billion in 340B outpatient drug purchases in 2025, according to new data from HRSA released July 13. The figure comes as 340B purchases hit a record $100 billion for the year,…
Ten hospitals and health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle vice presidents. Note: This is not an exhaustive list. Listings were compiled from job-seeker sites. 1. Adventist HealthCare, based in Gaithersburg, Md., seeks a vice president of revenue…
The Trump administration is blocking American citizens in the Democratic Republic of Congo from returning to the U.S. on commercial flights, a White House official told Becker’s. On July 13, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy signed an updated Title 42…
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has performed the first known quadruple-organ transplant involving retransplanted lungs in the U.S., the health system said in a July 14 news release. The recipient, 36-year-old Elizabeth Wehrle of Montezuma, Iowa, needed a rare four-organ transplant for…
Madison, Wis.-based UW Health has reached an agreement with Marshfield Medical Center-Beaver Dam (Wis.) to bring the medical center into the health system. The hospital is part of Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System, which merged with Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford…
Hospital pharmacy teams have spent years getting good at spending less. Finding the cheaper equivalent, negotiating a better contract, catching and fixing overcharges. It’s worked, and it’s still the top financial priority for most teams: 72% of pharmacy teams leaders…