Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare CEO Sam Hazen has been paid between 254 and 420 times more than the system’s median employee since 2021, according to proxy statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. To identify the median compensated employee,…
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Hospitals are still absorbing the financial shock of last summer’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and Capitol Hill is already preparing another round of federal funding cuts. Republican lawmakers have agreed on a two-track plan to fund the Department of…
Emplify Health, headquartered in La Crosse and Green Bay, Wis., has secured the naming rights for a field at a multiuse development next to the Green Bay Packers’ stadium. The central gathering place at the Packers-developed Titletown will now be…
Stephanie Conners, MBA, BSN, RN, began her career as a bedside nurse before advancing into leadership roles across several health systems, including serving as executive vice president and COO of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, and holding executive nursing and operational roles…
After serving St. Louis-based Ascension for more than a decade, Jennifer Morton, DNP, RN, will become chief nursing officer of Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System’s Wisconsin market. Dr. Morton most recently served as Ascension’s national senior director of nursing…
Sarah Paturalski has been named president of Beacon Dowagiac (Mich.), effective this summer. Prior to her new role, Ms. Paturalski served as interim president of Memorial Hospital of South Bend (Ind.), a 423-bed facility, according to an April 9 news…
Erlanger Health System, a seven-hospital system based in Chattanooga, Tenn., has named Jason Cox, MD, as chief medical officer of Erlanger East Hospital. Dr. Cox has more than two decades of hospital medicine leadership experience, according to an April 9…
Certificate-of-need laws—originally designed to prevent the duplication of healthcare services in a specific geographic region—may be on the chopping block for many states as a condition of the federal Rural Health Transformation program. Every state submitted applications seeking a share…
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has signed a law that overhauls some state board of nursing practices, KWCH 12 News reported April 8. Under House Bill 2528, the definition of “unprofessional conduct” was tightened, all “non-practice” violations dating back to 2025…
The CDC has delayed publication of a report on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness that had been scheduled for March 19, according to an April 9 report from The Washington Post. The report found that vaccinated healthy adults reduced their likelihood of…