Category: Press Release

Cooperstown, N.Y.-based Bassett Healthcare Network has appointed two system leaders, according to a Feb. 19 system news release. Henry Knoop, PA, was named vice president of strategy and growth. In the role, he will work with network leaders to identify and execute data-driven strategies for growth, such as expanding services. He joined the system in […]

Bryce Carder has been named senior vice president and chief digital and information officer of Phoenix-based Banner Health. Mr. Carder shared the news in a LinkedIn post. He previously served as vice president of IT business services at the health system. He has been with Banner Health since 2007, according to his LinkedIn profile. The […]

Subsidies. Love ’em or hate them, they dominated the news during the Affordable Care Act’s sign-up season, and their reduction is now hitting many enrollees in the pocketbook. While lawmakers continue to disagree on a way forward, and the politics of affordability keeps the issue front and center, it would be understandable to think these […]

Tamar Abrams had a lousy couple of years in 2022 and ’23. Both her parents died; a relationship ended; she retired from communications consulting. She moved from Arlington, Virginia, to Warren, Rhode Island, where she knew all of two people. “I was kind of a mess,” recalled Abrams, 69. Trying to cope, “I was eating […]

Shelly Schorer, California CFO at Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, has accepted a role as the system’s South region CFO, effective March 1, according to a Feb. 19 LinkedIn post. CommonSpirit South Region comprises 42 acute care, specialty and critical access hospitals and spans across Arkansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, North Georgia and Texas. It has ambulatory surgery […]

Members of the California Nurses Association have called off their one-day strike planned for Feb. 19 after reaching a tentative labor contract with AHMC Seton Medical Center in Daly City, Calif. The union — which represents about 300 nurses at the hospital, according to a Feb. 18 CNA news release — said the agreement addresses […]

NYC Health + Hospitals has appointed Svetlana Lipyanskaya as the next CEO of Maimonides Health, pending formal approval of the partnership between the two New York City-based health systems. Ms. Lipyanskaya has served as CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health since 2020 and is part of the leadership team overseeing the integration of […]

The Lown Institute Hospitals Index named the top 10 hospitals for cost efficiency. The institute used clinical outcomes and cost Medicare fee-for-service claims for patients hospitalized from 2020 to 2022. The cost efficiency metric includes sub-metrics for 30- and 90-day cost efficiency, and measures risk-standardized hospital mortality rates against cost of care for Medicare patients. […]

Hospital and health system CIOs across the U.S. have made a flurry of leadership moves, including new appointments, promotions and retirements. Some executives have stepped into expanded roles within their organizations, while others have exited as health systems rethink how they structure technology leadership amid rapid digital transformation. The shifts come as CIO turnover remains […]

Walgreens is laying off more than 600 employees in two states as it continues reshaping operations under private equity ownership, Bloomberg reported Feb. 19. The company will reduce its Illinois workforce by 469 roles and eliminate 159 jobs in Texas as part of a distribution center shutdown. The cuts were detailed in notices the company […]