Valerie Powell-Stafford was named senior vice president and area manager of Kaiser Permanente’s Greater Southern Alameda service area in California. Ms. Powell-Stafford will oversee hospital operations and the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan for the area, which has more than 6,700…
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A national healthcare organization operating more than 100 hospitals spent one day examining how it requests, approves and pays for locum tenens coverage. The exercise required no extra spend and produced five recommendations. Leaders had reason to look. Locum tenens…
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Texas hospitals stand to lose an estimated $27 million in Medicaid funding each day beginning Sept. 1 as CMS has yet to approve three directed payment programs for the state’s 2027 fiscal year, according to the Texas Hospital Association. The…
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Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System has selected Premier for group purchasing and supply chain services. The agreement gives HSHS access to Premier’s group purchasing program, integrated data and analytics, supply chain solutions, advisory services, collaboratives and other resources, according…
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Chillicothe, Ohio-based Adena Health acquired Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, Ohio, on Sept. 1, making it the health system’s fifth hospital. Fairfield Medical Center will now be known as Adena Fairfield Medical Center as part of the acquisition, according to…
Tauana McDonald plans to retire at the end of 2026 as president and CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health System after nearly a decade with the organization. Ms. McDonald joined Mount Carmel in 2017 as its first chief administrative…
Hawaii will receive $58 million through the Rural Health Transformation Program to bolster the state’s healthcare workforce, purchase new ambulances and upgrade emergency communications systems. Hawaii will distribute $45 million to the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of…
More parents are declining hepatitis B vaccination and vitamin K prophylaxis for infants, and female infants are less likely than males to receive either, according to a research letter published Aug. 31 in JAMA. Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia…