Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network will open its new St. Luke’s Heart Hospital at Anderson Campus in Easton, Pa., in October — the largest construction project in the health system’s more than 150-year history by both cost and…
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Jeremy Martin was appointed CEO of St. James Parish Hospital in Lutcher, La., according to a July 31 Facebook post from the hospital. Mr. Martin joined the hospital in 2004 and has held several leadership roles, most recently serving as…
Patients are walking into exam rooms with a question already half-answered. Increasingly, the source of that answer is not a nurse line or a pamphlet but generative AI, and health system leaders say the shift is changing their relationships with…
Hartford, Conn.-based Connecticut Children’s Medical Center has agreed to stop performing gender-affirming procedures on minors as part of agreements with the Department of Justice. Under the agreement, Connecticut Children’s committed to not administering puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, or performing…
New rules establishing minimum emergency nurse-to-patient staffing ratios at freestanding acute psychiatric hospitals in California took effect June 1. Going forward, there must be one nurse for every five patients younger than 18 and one nurse for every six adult patients, regardless…
Health systems are investing tens of millions, and in some cases more than $100 million, in Epic projects ranging from new EHR implementations to major rebuilds of existing systems. Here are the costs of four recent projects, as reported by…
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Hospital in Detroit has filed a lawsuit against Tenet Healthcare’s Detroit Medical Center and several of its affiliated hospitals, alleging DMC threatened to scale back or terminate services critical to Karmanos’ operations amid a long-running contract…
The FDA has flagged six medical device recalls, corrections and early alerts affecting convenience kits, ventilators, catheter introducer kits and percutaneous catheters. Here are the six recalls to know:
A number of healthcare organizations have recently closed medical departments or ended services at facilities to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or address staffing shortages. Here are 52 department closures or services that are ending or have…
NYU Langone launched 20 startups last year. Its next commercial product is an AI oncology tool. New York City-based NYU Langone Health’s Technology Opportunities and Ventures office, which turns the health system’s research and clinical work into commercial products, had…