Overland Park, Kan.-based Menorah Medical Center, part of HCA Midwest Health, recently named Rodney Buzzas, MD, chief medical officer. Dr. Buzzas is joining Menorah Medical Center from St. Rose Dominican Hospitals in Henderson, Nev., where he was CMO and designated…
The Latest
Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine has opened the WVUH Community Pharmacy, expanding access to pharmacy services for residents, patients, students and employees. The pharmacy is integrated with the health system’s community pharmacy network, allowing pharmacy staff to work directly with providers…
Hospitals are increasingly paying for artificial intelligence by the token, turning a once-obscure technical term into a line item finance teams are starting to watch. Tokens are the basic unit large language models use to read and generate text. A…
Greenville, N.C.-based ECU Health recorded operating income of $113.5 million (4.6% operating margin) through the third quarter of fiscal 2026, up from $91.5 million (4% margin) during the same period last year, according to its July 31 financial report. Four…
Registered nurses at Houlton (Maine) Regional Hospital have signed a letter of no confidence in the hospital’s president and CEO, Jeff Zewe, RN, according to a union statement shared with Becker’s. The nurses, who are represented by the Maine State…
Hospital supply chain leaders increasingly describe a job that looks less like procurement and more like enterprise finance, clinical strategy and quality oversight rolled into one function. For Luke Martin, administrative director of supply chain management at Shannon Health in…
Active U.S. drug shortages increased to 227 in the second quarter of 2026, marking the third consecutive quarterly increase, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Nearly half of all new shortages this year involve medications made by a…
CMS on July 31 finalized its Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System rule for fiscal 2027, setting a 2.3% payment increase for acute care and long-term care hospitals and locking in the first mandatory, nationwide…
Hospital leaders often measure cybersecurity readiness by asking whether their own environment is protected. Are systems patched? Is multifactor authentication in place? Are employees trained to recognize phishing attempts? Those questions matter, but they no longer cover the full scope…
Anacortes, Wash.-based Island Health has named Paul Vachek as CFO. Mr. Vachek joins Island Health from Phoenix, Ariz.-based Banner Health, where he served as CFO for several facilities, including Mesa, Ariz.-based Banner Desert Medical Center, Mesa-based Banner Children’s Medical Center,…