Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network has saved $4.2 million and significantly reduced medication stockouts after shifting from managing pharmacy inventory at individual hospitals to an enterprisewide strategy, according to Laura Mark, PharmD, vice president of pharmacy. Speaking on Becker’s “Pharmacy Leadership…
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HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital in Fort Walton Beach has named Jared Whipkey assistant chief financial officer, according to an Aug. 18 post on the hospital’s LinkedIn page. Mr. Whipkey brings more than a decade of hospital finance and executive…
William Grogan has been named CFO of GE HealthCare, effective Sept. 14. Mr. Grogan succeeds Jay Saccaro, who stepped down for an expanded role outside of the medical technology industry, according to an Aug. 18 news release. GE HealthCare’s interim…
Utilization management has long lived inside the EMR by default, not by design. For many health systems, that means physician advisors and UR nurses work from different views of the same patient, reviews go unprioritized, and cases that should be…
Nearly every U.S. hospital screens patients for sepsis, but far fewer have dedicated personnel to ensure screening is successful, the CDC found. Moreover, separate research links a lack of specific accountability to higher mortality. In its latest annual survey of…
Kari Brodhacker has been named assistant CFO of Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health’s Medical Group of Community Medicine, according to an Aug. 17 LinkedIn post. Prior to her new role, Ms. Brodhacker served as financial operations director and financial expert advisor…
Gina Cronin has been appointed senior vice president and chief human resources officer of University of Chicago Medicine, effective Oct. 19. Ms. Cronin currently serves as executive vice president and chief people officer at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.,…
Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based DCH Health System named Dennis Fisher as its new chief human resources officer. Mr. Fisher most recently served as CHRO at Columbia, Tenn.-based Maury Regional Health, a three-hospital system with roughly 3,100 employees, according to an Aug. 17…
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health named Rick Moreland CEO of Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch, Calif., effective Aug. 24. Mr. Moreland most recently served as interim CEO and executive of operations at Sutter Delta, according to an Aug. 18 health…