Category: Press Release

Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health will soon operate the largest hospital-based drone delivery network in the U.S. The health system is partnering with medical drone startup Zipline to transport prescriptions, lab samples and medical supplies across three markets. Medications and supplies will be delivered to patients’ homes, while lab specimens will be transported between hospitals and […]

Sleep data from COPD patients with wearable devices may help predict how likely they are to stay engaged with pulmonary rehabilitation, according to researchers at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic. The study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, evaluated whether sleep metrics collected from wrist-worn devices could improve machine learning models predicting participation in a […]

Anthem BCBS in New York and New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System have been entrenched in a heated contract dispute, with physicians and facilities going out of network at the beginning of the year and in March, respectively. Becker’s spoke with Victor DeStefano, commercial president for Anthem BCBS in New York, and Brent Estes, […]

Daniel Jackson, CEO of the Ascension Wisconsin Ministry Market, will transition from his role on April 17. Scott Cihak, COO of Ascension Wisconsin, will serve as interim CEO for the market until a successor is named, an Ascension spokesperson said in a March 26 statement shared with Becker’s. Mr. Jackson was named ministry market executive […]

Laurel, Miss.-based South Central Regional Medical Center is spending about $115 million on a new Epic EHR over the next 10 years to boost data-sharing in its region, improve the patient experience and help with physician recruitment, executives told Becker’s. The organization launched with the EHR in January, bringing four other local community hospitals onto […]

Although most hospitals track nursing investments as expenditures but not return on investment, chief nursing leaders at 45 U.S. hospitals said these initiatives support positive hospital operating margins.  An American Nurses Enterprise-commissioned survey asked chief nurse executives and chief nursing officers about their workforces, investment expenditures and hospital operating margin. Most hospitals recognized in the […]

Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health is taking a multipronged approach to tackling workforce shortages: investing in early education pipelines, raising minimum wages and leaning into technology to stretch its existing staff further. Mary Martin, COO of Duke University Hospital, said the problem runs deeper than supply and demand. The economics of healthcare education are driving people […]

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President Donald Trump will soon nominate a permanent director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, its acting chief, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, told agency employees at a Wednesday staff meeting. According to a recording obtained by KFF Health News, Bhattacharya at one point suggested to CDC staff that Trump could […]