Category: Press Release

After three director changes since July and a wave of significant staff departures, the CDC faces growing questions about its capacity to deliver the outbreak coordination, surveillance and public health guidance hospitals have relied on for decades. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health, was named acting CDC director Feb. 18. He […]

Joshua Baldobinos has been named chief operating officer at Hazel Crest, Ill.-based Advocate South Suburban Hospital, according to a Feb. 24 LinkedIn post. The hospital is part of Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care. Prior to his new role, Mr. Baldobinos served as vice president of operations for Advocate South Suburban Hospital, according to his […]

Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth is rolling out Abridge’s AI scribe across the organization after a successful nine-month pilot. The health system trialed the solution with 250 providers in 2025, experiencing improvements in patient experience and clinician workflows, before expanding it to nearly a third of UCHealth’s roughly 6,000 physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. “During the […]

If hospitals do not blend their procurement decisions with overall performance strategy, they risk patient harm and losing CMS accreditation, according to a Feb. 24 article from Vizient, a healthcare performance improvement company.  On Jan. 1, the Joint Commission implemented updated National Performance Goals, which pivoted from preventing harm to focusing on achieving measurable performance […]

The CEO and president of Vizient, Byron Jobe, said Feb. 25 that “systemness,” not scale, will define healthcare’s next era. After years of “scale, diversification and integration” to ward off industry headwinds, health system leaders are shifting to a new priority: aligning their now bigger organization. Mr. Jobe described systemness as a continuous operating model […]

The FDA has placed a partial clinical hold on a cancer drug trial following four safety events, including one death, according to a Feb. 25 announcement from MacroGenics.  The partial hold pauses enrollment for MacroGenics’ phase 2 study on lorigerlimab, an experimental therapy for gynecologic cancers. The safety events include two cases of thrombocytopenia, which […]

Chicago-based Rush University System for Health has appointed Gina Rodriguez as senior vice president and chief development officer, effective April 6. Ms. Rodriguez will lead the system’s philanthropic strategy as Rush advances “Without Boundaries: The RUSH Campaign,” its comprehensive fundraising effort supporting clinical care, education, research and community health, according to a Feb. 25 health […]

Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Onancock, Va., has appointed Kristie Finney as its permanent president. Ms. Finney has served as the hospital’s interim president since November, according to a Feb. 25 hospital news release. She previously was senior director of quality and laboratory services at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital, where she led initiatives focused on […]

The American hospital landscape is in constant motion. Fueled by demographic shifts, consolidation pressures and a post-pandemic push to expand capacity, many of the nation’s largest health systems are growing at a remarkable pace by adding patient towers, absorbing regional competitors and scaling their workforces to meet rising demand. The result is an industry that […]

Fernando Viera Reyes needed a biopsy for possible prostate cancer when the Trump administration sent him to an immigration detention center in California’s Mojave Desert. There, he waited. Reyes, now 51, made repeated requests for the procedure, according to a lawsuit filed in November against the federal government, but months went by even though there […]