Lauren Faison-Clark, CEO of Doctors’ Memorial Hospital in Perry, Fla., will leave her role at the end of May to assume a leadership position with South Bend, Ind.-based Beacon Health System. Ms. Faison-Clark has served as CEO of the hospital…
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Greenwood (Miss.) Leflore Hospital is laying off 86 employees — about 17% of its workforce — and eliminating several service lines as it prepares for a potential closure or acquisition by a larger health system. The layoffs, which include 46…
Effective April 1, BreAnn Jackson, BSN, RN, concluded her service as chief nursing officer at El Dorado Springs, Mo.-based Cedar County Memorial Hospital. “CCMH Administration expresses their sincere gratitude to Jackson for her years of service and her many contributions…
The five highest-earning executives at King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, including its CEO and CFO, received higher overall compensation in 2025 than in 2024, according to an April 9 proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.…
For many health system executives, the “last mile” of care is often the most frustratingly opaque. While leadership teams invest significant resources into optimizing internal metrics such as ER wait times and daily discharge volumes, the actual logistics of home…
In this episode, Selynto Anderson, PhD, FACHE, Chief Community Health and Impact Officer at Lee Health, joins the podcast to discuss the power of community partnerships in improving health outcomes. He shares how his team is working to better serve…
In this episode, Jakob Emerson, Associate News Director, Becker’s Healthcare, breaks down the latest Medicare Advantage rate updates, policy changes targeting upcoding, and ongoing efforts to reform prior authorization amid transparency challenges.
Rural hospitals relied on patient cost-sharing for 34% of allowed amounts in 2019, according to an April study in Health Affairs. University of Southern California researchers in Los Angeles reviewed in-network commercial insurance claims over the course of 11 years…
Telehealth nurses and virtual nurses are the top two roles chief nursing officers are looking to fill in 2026, Wolters Kluwer reported. The survey of 150 hospital and health system leaders defined telehealth nurses as providing clinical and real-time audio/video…
Nilesh Desai was appointed chief pharmacy officer of University of Miami (Fla.) Health System, according to an April 8 news release shared with Becker’s. Mr. Desai joins the university-based system from Baptist Health in Kentucky and Indiana, where he served…