Hammond, La.-based North Oaks Health has promoted Julie Crockett, BSN, RN, to director of patient experience and community impact. Ms. Crockett previously served as patient advocacy and experience manager for six years at North Oaks. The system includes a 330-bed…
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As healthcare industry pressures like labor costs, policy changes and ongoing service cuts and closures continue, health systems reported a wide range of financial outcomes in the first quarter of 2026. Tenet Healthcare led all systems with a 24.1% operating…
Hybrid schedules tend to improve how workers feel about their jobs and make them less likely to leave, but research shows employees who work from home full time could face higher rates of anxiety and loneliness, The Wall Street Journal…
Wasif Jamal has been named vice president and CIO of WellSpan Health in York, Pa. In this role, Mr. Jamal will oversee IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, application product strategy and enterprise analytics for the health system, according to a June 15…
Doug Brewer is set to retire at the end of July as president and CEO of Whitfield Regional Hospital in Demopolis, Ala., which operates under the Tombigbee Healthcare Authority and is a member of the UAB Health System, he confirmed…
Health systems should direct AI investment toward implementation science, not new tool development, Sanjiv Shah, MD, director of research at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, said on Becker’s “Cardiology + Heart Surgery Podcast.” “We already have an abundance of…
Telehealth utilization rose 10.1% in the first quarter of 2026, with mental health conditions remaining the top telehealth diagnosis across every age group and region. FAIR Health on June 15 released first-quarter telehealth data and launched a new Quarterly Telehealth…
Talks between Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham and Medical Properties Trust over the unfinished Norwood (Mass.) Hospital construction site fell through after the hospital real estate owner came back with a second asking price 50% higher than its first, The…
Deirdre Byrne was appointed chief strategy officer and vice president of marketing for Paramus, N.J.-based Valley Health System. Ms. Byrne most recently served as vice president of network strategy at Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health, according to a June 15…
Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health has filed a certificate-of-need application to build a new hospital in Forsyth County. Three notes: 1. The proposed facility would be a 198,593-square-foot hospital. Cone Health is applying for 56 acute care beds allocated to the…