Integration & Physician Issues

Apple was reportedly in talks to purchase Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Crossover Health, a healthcare startup that works with self-insured employers to provide medical and wellness services at onsite clinics. The move heightens speculation about the tech giant's potential foray into…

  Iowa City-based University of Iowa named J. Brooks Jackson, MD, dean and vice president for medical affairs at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, effective Nov. 30.

Several researchers from Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute joined San Francisco-based Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy earlier this month, Market Insider reports.

A Rochester, Minn.-based physician who has lived in the U.S. for her entire adult life is scheduled to be deported Monday following several failed attempts to gain citizenship amid bureaucratic misinformation, according to ABC-5 News.

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education granted the Champaign-based University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Carle Illinois College of Medicine preliminary accreditation Oct. 13, allowing the college to begin recruiting students to its inaugural fall 2018 class, according to The News-Gazette.

  Julayne Smithson, RN, an intensive care unit nurse at Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa (Calif.) Medical Center, said she was taking care of a patient late on Oct. 8 when she learned wildfires threatened to engulf her home, according to…

An emergency medicine physician at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health Medical Center discovered a newborn baby inside a garbage can in a bathroom at the facility earlier this month, according to the Sun Sentinel.

Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center has delayed between 65 and 95 nonemergency surgeries since early August due to a shortage of anesthesiologists, according to The Denver Post. 

Twelve healthcare practitioners from Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network will participate in the TCS New York City Marathon Nov. 5 to raise money for the health network's 10 hospitals, according to Westchester.

A retired 78-year-old South Dakota surgeon said he plans to surrender his medical license rather than attend a revocation hearing to strip him of his license following an incident with another physician nearly 20 years ago, according to the Argus…