Category: Press Release

Allison Schuler, MSN, has been appointed CEO and chief nursing officer of Baptist Memorial Hospital-Attala in Kosciusko, Miss. She brings more than 25 years of healthcare experience to the role, according to a Jan. 7 LinkedIn post from Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care. Ms. Shuler joined the hospital — then known as Montfort Jones […]

UK St. Claire in Morehead, Ky., has undergone significant medical services expansion and workforce development since it joined Lexington-based UK HealthCare in July 2024. At the time of integration, St. Claire HealthCare featured its 139-bed hospital, seven primary care locations, a multispecialty medical pavilion, a pediatrics clinic, two urgent care centers, an outpatient center, a […]

You’re ready to leave the hospital, but you don’t feel able to care for yourself at home yet. Or, you’ve completed a couple of weeks in rehab. Can you handle your complicated medication regimen, along with shopping and cooking? Perhaps you fell in the shower, and now your family wants you to arrange help with […]

Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System has shared plans to open the Pagidipati Children’s Hospital at St. Joseph’s in 2030, according to a Jan. 6 news release.  The $650 million freestanding facility will succeed the system’s existing St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Tampa, which offers more than 170 pediatric physician specialists across 25 medical and surgical […]

Former American Medical Association President Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, has been named chief medical officer of Aidoc, a company that develops AI-based systems to analyze medical images and identify acute abnormalities. In this role, Dr. Ehrenfeld will support health systems as they transition from adopting individual point solutions to a comprehensive clinical AI strategy, according to […]

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital has partnered with Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Health to bring the Lakeland region greater access to specialized cancer care and clinical trials. Under the collaborative agreement, TGH oncologists will provide subspecialized cancer care to patients at Lakeland Regional Health’s Hollis Cancer Center, according to a Jan. 7 news release from the health […]

Honolulu is 2026’s best city for an active lifestyle, while Garland, Texas, is the worst, according to an annual WalletHub analysis published Jan. 7. The personal finance company compared the 100 most populated U.S. cities across two dimensions: budget and participation, and sports and outdoors. WalletHub examined these dimensions using 35 metrics, ranging from the […]

As primary care demand accelerates, Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System is betting on a future in which access does not come from more clinicians or exam rooms alone, but from rethinking the basics of how visits happen. The system is piloting virtual shared medical visits as part of a broader push to expand primary […]

Vera Therapeutics received priority review from the FDA for its biologics license application for atacicept to treat adults with immunoglobulin A nephropathy. The application was submitted under the FDA’s accelerated approval program and assigned a Prescription Drug User Fee Act target action date of July 7, 2026. If approved, atacicept would become the first B-cell […]