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Birmingham, Ala.-based Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, will lay off 264 workers after losing a Medicare administrative contract, the Birmingham Business Journal reports.

A Canadian man was greeted with an unwelcome surprise after learning his 21-minute Uber ride to St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto last Friday cost him $18,518 ($14,392.24 USD), Vice reports.

Jan Kleinhesselink, RN. Chief Quality Officer of Lincoln (Neb.) Surgical Hospital. Ms. Kleinhesselink is the chief quality officer of Lincoln Surgical Hospital, a nine-operating-room surgical specialty hospital. Under her leadership, the hospital earned CMS’ five-star Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating and…

December 2017 Issue of Beckers Hospital Review     CFO / FINANCECalifornia Hospital Suspends All Services, Notifies 524 Employees of Possible LayoffsTulare (Calif.) Regional Medical Center shut down Oct. 29, as the local healthcare district is voluntarily suspending its license with…

Paul Ramsey, MD. CEO of UW Medicine (Seattle). Dr. Ramsey joined UW Medicine in 1978 and rose through the ranks to serve as senior executive leader and chair of the UW Department of Medicine before he became CEO, executive vice…

Thomas Priselac. President and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Health System (Los Angeles). Mr. Priselac joined Cedars-Sinai Health System in 1979 and was appointed CEO in 1994. During his tenure, Cedars-Sinai has grown into a 40-location health system that serves around 1…

Mary Ellen Pratt. CEO of Saint James Parish Hospital (Lutcher, La.). Since 2007, Ms. Pratt has served as CEO of St. James Parish Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital. In this role, she helped the hospital complete a replacement construction…

The American Academy of Pediatrics board committed $583,000 in resources to establish the Clinical Health Information and Longitudinal Data Registry, AAP News Editor-in-Chief Anne Hegland wrote Nov. 21.

Mike Keating. President and CEO of The Christ Hospital Health Network (Cincinnati). Mr. Keating was officially named president and CEO of The Christ Hospital Health Network in 2013 after serving as the system’s interim CEO for less than a year.…

A New York City man faces multiple charges after he fought with a first responder and a police officer in Hazleton, Pa., early Sunday morning, according to a Times Leader report.