In late 2025, Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic set out to aggressively scale up AI agents. Who better to design them than the nurses who’ll be using them? The academic health system recently challenged its nurses to devise largely autonomous AI…
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Joe Ottolino has been appointed CEO of Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite City, Ill., the hospital wrote in a May 29 LinkedIn post. Mr. Ottolino has served as an executive at Cedar Health since December 2020, according to his…
Though now fixtures of the healthcare workforce, the physician assistant and nurse practitioner professions started with only a single training program and a handful of graduates. Katie McLaughlin, PhD, executive director of the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health at…
AI will play a central role in CommonSpirit’s future revenue cycle strategy after the Chicago-based system exits its outsourcing partnership with Conifer Health Solutions at the end of 2026, CFO Michael Browning said May 29. In February, it was announced…
The role of health system pharmacy executives has changed, as has the communication style required to sustain it. Pharmacy leaders at New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, UChicago Medicine and Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine told Becker’s how they translate pharmacy…
A new Medicare Advantage advocacy organization has emerged with the backing of several major health systems, adding more provider voices to the increasingly crowded debate over the future of the public-private program. The Alliance for Medicare announced its launch this…
Cleveland Clinic has appointed Miguel Regueiro, MD, as executive vice president and enterprise chief of staff, effective June 1. In the role, Dr. Regueiro will help shape the health system’s clinical strategy and lead a global community of more than…
Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care will break ground June 2 on its $300 million South Side Hospital in Chicago, according to a May 28 release shared with Becker’s. Advocate received approval for the 52-bed hospital from the Chicago Plan…
Some of the country’s biggest health systems built on their financial scale in 2025, with total assets across the industry reflecting years of capital investment, strategic acquisitions and balance sheet growth, even as operating and margin pressures heightened for many…
Chris Van Gorder, president and CEO of San Diego-based Scripps Health, has received the 2026 Vision & Excellence in Healthcare Leadership Award from Partners in Care Foundation. The award was presented May 28 by American Hospital Association President and CEO…