Category: Press Release

Houston Methodist Cypress (Texas) Hospital has shared plans for a $104 million expansion — almost exactly one year after opening its doors.  The hospital, which is part of Houston Methodist, was a $685 million project when it opened as the system’s ninth facility in March 2025.  Houston Methodist Cypress’s expansion includes 64 new medical-surgical beds, […]

CMS approved Minnesota’s plan to tackle Medicaid integrity concerns, according to a March 19 letter to the state’s Medicaid director. In January, CMS informed Minnesota of “several deficiencies” in the state’s Dec. 31 plan submission to resolve integrity concerns, which the state then revised Jan. 30. According to a March 19 letter from Kimberly Brandt, […]

While Pennsylvania’s healthcare challenges are widespread, they hit rural communities hardest, Terry Gilliland, MD, president and CEO of Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger, wrote in a March 19 commentary piece published in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. Limited access to care, workforce shortages and rising costs are straining rural providers and worsening outcomes for patients, Dr. Gilliland wrote. The […]

Sepsis was present in 17.8% of nearly 4 million pediatric hospital deaths between 2016 and 2023, according to a study published March 22 in JAMA. Researchers from academic institutions across the U.S. analyzed data from 3,925,809 pediatric hospitalizations across 245 health care systems between 2016 and 2023 in the Epic Cosmos database as well as […]

Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare has named Danielle Buchanan as vice president and chief communications officer. Ms. Buchanan most recently served as senior marketing director for diagnostic services at Quest Diagnostics, according to a March 23 LinkedIn post from the health system. She previously spent nearly a decade at Tallahassee Memorial, where she led marketing, communications […]

With healthcare pressures arriving faster than many health systems can respond, a strong CEO and CFO partnership has never been more important.  At York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health, Roxanna Gapstur, PhD, RN, president and CEO, and Laura Buczkowski, executive vice president and CFO, have spent nearly six years building that kind of partnership, forging a relationship […]

Parts of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health’s Colorado and Texas markets are back in network for Humana Medicare Advantage members under a national, three-year agreement, according to a March 23 news release. The agreement, which is the product of nearly one year of negotiations, covers services, facilities and providers. CommonSpirit’s Colorado and Texas markets split from the […]

Orange, Calif.-based UCI Health plans to lay off about 150 workers — about 1% of its workforce — as part of a “strategic restructuring” amid widespread financial pressures, including federal funding cuts and changes to insurance reimbursement. Affected roles include a mix of administrative, support and operational functions across the health system realign “how work […]