Signature Healthcare Brockton (Mass.) Hospital has lifted its “code black” status following a cybersecurity incident that began April 6. As of 8 a.m. April 15, the hospital’s emergency department was again receiving ambulances after continuing to serve walk-in patients during…
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Nursing home operators are warning the Supreme Court that revoking the right of Haitian immigrants to remain in the U.S. could be detrimental to the industry’s workforce, The Washington Post reported April 14. The Supreme Court is set to hear…
Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine’s board of directors has approved more than $350 million in capital projects. The investments, subject to regulatory approval, bring the system’s three-year total for capital improvement projects to more than $1.2 billion, according to an April…
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the union representing more than 42,000 University of California workers, plans to begin an open-ended strike May 14, according to an April 15 union news release shared with Becker’s. AFSCME Local…
Many health systems are opting for a single EHR and enterprise resource planning system, relying on foundational enterprise platforms for much of their technology needs. This also means they’re consolidating and turning off IT applications, depending less on point-solution companies…
Lebanon, Ind.-based Witham Health Services has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to join Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health. The 60-bed independent county hospital said the decision to join Parkview comes after consideration by its board of trustees and executive…
Primary care providers at Cleveland-based MetroHealth are taking steps to unionize with AFSCME Ohio Council 8, according to cleveland.com. Organizers said April 14 that the proposed bargaining unit would include MetroHealth physicians, physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses. “We…
Thomas Shaknovsky, MD, a Florida surgeon, was charged April 13 with second-degree manslaughter in connection with the death of a 70-year-old man during surgery. The Alabama man was vacationing in Florida when he experienced severe pain on his left side,…
West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health is transitioning some IT and revenue cycle functions to third-party vendors, including eliminating 207 IT roles, the system said April 15. The changes, affecting less than 1% of UnityPoint Health’s 31,000-member workforce, are part…
John Raffoul has retired as president of Adventist Health White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, effective March 31. Mr. Raffoul spent 42 years in healthcare, including 36 years at Adventist Health White Memorial, he wrote in an April 14…