Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has promoted four leaders to senior vice president as their responsibilities for improving patient care and access expand. Jennifer Blaha was promoted to senior vice president of surgical services, according to an Aug. 20 health system news…
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Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health has received nearly $1.1 billion in cash distributions from its ownership stake in Ensemble Health Partners so far in 2026, according to its Aug. 18 financial report. Bon Secours holds a 41% stake in the…
Milwaukee-based Children’s Wisconsin became the first center in the U.S. to administer Otarmeni, an FDA-approved gene therapy for genetic hearing loss, outside a clinical trial. The health system treated two children with the therapy. The health system is one of…
The FDA granted accelerated approval to Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical’s Genglycos, the first approved treatment for glycogen storage disease type Ia. The one-time AAV8-based gene therapy is approved to reduce daily cornstarch intake as an adjunct to nutritional management in adults and…
Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute has opened a new location in Tinley Park, Ill. The new clinic offers echocardiograms, supervised stress testing and heart monitoring, designed to support earlier diagnosis, risk assessment and coordinated care for patients with cardiovascular concerns,…
Sean McGlone was named president and CEO of the Ohio Hospital Association, effective Oct. 17. Mr. McGlone is being promoted from senior vice president and general counsel, a role he has held as part of the association’s executive leadership team,…
Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Faculty Physicians, the clinical practice group of UNC School of Medicine, has spent much of the past year rebuilding its access model, and the group saw about 8,000 more new patient visits than projected as…
Garden County Health Services, a rural emergency hospital in Oshkosh, Neb., has filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. Five things to know: 1. The filing gives the organization a legal framework to address financial challenges while continuing to serve patients,…
Watsonville (Calif.) Community Hospital has temporarily suspended operations at its neonatal intensive care unit amid ongoing nursing shortages, according to an Aug. 19 KSBW 8 report. The Level II NICU has been unavailable for several weeks. Hospital officials did not…
AI is now embedded in everyday clinical work, helping physicians and nurses retrieve information faster and offload documentation. Recent Wolters Kluwer research found that 74% of physicians and 70% of nurses use generative AI weekly — yet 92% still say…