Hospital-based acute care physicians represented by Doctors Council SEIU at Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare have voted to ratify a new three-year labor contract. The agreement, which covers more than 500 physicians, marks the first union contract for healthcare workers in Delaware…
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Epic was one of 10 healthcare organizations featured on Time’s “Most Influential Companies of 2026” list. The sixth edition of the list, published April 27, included 205 companies across 20 sectors. The health companies included pharmaceutical manufacturers, telehealth providers and…
Members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa plan to strike July 6 outside Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Allina Health’s corporate headquarters in Minneapolis, according to a union news release shared with Becker’s. The union represents 65 hospice nurses who provide…
The California Department of Public Health has approved temporary rule waivers for 23 hospitals after a nurse-patient ratio rule went into effect June 1, Mercury News reported June 29. The new regulations require 35 psychiatric hospitals to assign one nurse…
A. Brent Eastman, MD, who served as chief medical officer of San Diego-based Scripps Health for nearly two decades and as president of the American College of Surgeons, died June 24. To those at Scripps, he is remembered as a…
The University of Michigan Board of Regents has approved dissolving the corporate entity of Sparrow Health System, completing its administrative integration into University of Michigan Health. The regents voted on the measure at their June 25 meeting. A University of…
When clinicians don’t trust clinical decision-support tools, they don’t just ignore them. They spend extra time verifying and correcting AI-generated recommendations undermining productivity and compromising the very quality-of-care gains these tools are meant to deliver. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting,…
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J. Scott Smitherman, MD, has been promoted to vice president and chief medical information officer of Renton, Wash.-based Providence. J. Scott Smitherman, MD, made the announcement via LinkedIn on June 29. “Today, I officially begin as VP, Chief Medical Information…
Wichita, Kan.-based Ascension Via Christi acquired Rock Regional Hospital, a shuttered Derby, Kan.-based facility, June 26. Newly renamed Ascension Via Christi St. Peter, the hospital closed its doors in early January after a federal judge approved its eviction process amid…
On July 1, eligible Medicare Part D beneficiaries can access GLP-1 medications — Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound — at a $50 monthly copay through the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge program, a temporary federal initiative running through December 2027. The program…