Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health hosted HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a visit focused on healthcare innovation, behavioral health and chronic disease management. The visit included executives from Summa Health, General Catalyst and HATCo, the healthcare company launched by…
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Jerry Yang has been named CFO of Indianapolis-based Community Health Network, effective June 9. Mr. Yang succeeds Kyle Fisher who retired in 2025. During the transition, Holly Millard served as interim CFO, according to a May 13 news release shared…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that will provide up to $25 million in grants to nonprofit and public hospitals facing immediate risk of closure. The legislation, AB 108, establishes a one-time grant program that will be administered…
Behavioral health emergency department visits are projected to increase by 1 million over the next decade, with adult visits expected to grow 12% and pediatric visits projected to rise 7% — outpacing physical health ED growth, according to an Sg2…
As health systems accelerate AI adoption, technology leaders are discovering that some of the biggest risks aren’t obvious during the vendor demo stage. At Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the most revealing lessons came during implementation of a…
St. Louis-based Ascension recently saw three hospital and market CFO moves, with new finance leaders stepping into roles across Texas, Florida and Wisconsin. Here are three Ascension CFO moves that Becker’s has covered since May 12: 1. Spencer Estrella has…
Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have helped launch what they describe as the first large-scale, open-access benchmark dataset designed specifically for pediatric brain tumor segmentation and analysis, according to a May 12 report published in…
Froedtert ThedaCare Health, a 20-hospital system based in Menomonee Falls, Wis., has appointed Seraphine Kapsandoy-Jones, PhD, RN, chief nursing executive and senior vice president. Dr. Kapsandoy-Jones will join the system June 15 after serving Centene as vice president of population…
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (Pa.) and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center partnered to give UPMC registered nurses access to the university’s online registered nurse-bachlor’s of science in nursing, or RN-BSN, degree program. Under the agreement, grants and UPMC…
Health system chief human resources officers in the top-ranked metropolitan areas for new graduate hiring are competing with other booming industries — and seeing more applicants from outside healthcare, such as tech, finance, retail and hospitality. A recent study from…