Category: Press Release

Grand Rapids and Southfield, Mich.-based Corewell Health, San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare, Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health and Village Medical have partnered with tech startup Cadence to care for seniors at home. Cadence’s clinical team monitors at-home vitals for older patients with hypertension, heart failure and diabetes, integrating the data into primary care providers’ workflows. “This […]

Healthcare employment continued to grow in January, with the industry adding 81,900 jobs, according to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS released the January jobs report Feb. 11. Here are three more takeaways: 1. January’s healthcare job growth was above the industry’s average monthly gain of 33,000 per month for […]

Jeremy Riley has been appointed CEO of Early Medical Center, a critical access hospital in Blakely, Ga., according to a Feb. 9 hospital Facebook post. Mr. Riley brings more than 20 years of healthcare leadership experience to the role, according to the post. He has held executive positions including CEO, COO and vice president of […]

Gregory Piper was appointed president of Beacon Allegan, a 25-bed critical access hospital in southwest Michigan. Mr. Piper has served in the role on an interim basis since November 2025. Before his interim appointment, he held leadership roles at the hospital’s parent organization, South Bend, Ind.-based Beacon Health System, including director of supply chain services, […]

Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 Every day, your health system makes thousands of operational decisions—referrals, scheduling, site of care, discharge planning. What if each decision could simultaneously optimize for quality, patient experience, and margin across every one of your payment contracts? This isn’t just a future vision. Leading health systems are transforming payment complexity into a […]

Most medical students in the U.S. receive little or no formal training in guiding patients and their families through end-of-life care, WSU Insider reported Jan. 14. A  study from Pullman-based Washington State University, published Dec. 3 in Academic Medicine, analyzed 43 articles in PubMed and Embase databases on death and dying education at medical schools […]

Buckhannon, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital has launched a healthcare training pathway for high school students. The MedED Program will train high school juniors and seniors how to be patient care technicians, according to a Feb. 10 system news release. Students will receive classroom instruction, hands-on learning and a paid internship at St. Joseph’s […]

Price transparency laws for healthcare organizations were first implemented in 2021 and have progressively strengthened since, but have they helped patients? The laws were introduced during President Donald Trump’s first term and require hospitals to publicly post their payer-specific negotiation rates. In 2022, a companion rule imposed similar requirements on insurers. And in February 2025, […]

Salt Lake City-based Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah will be the first U.S. academic medical center to manufacture a novel prostate cancer imaging drug, flotufolastat F 18. The drug was developed by Blue Earth Diagnostics and will be manufactured through Huntsman Cancer Institute’s Center for Quantitative Cancer Imaging and Theranostics, according to […]

Grand Forks-based University of North Dakota launched a federal funded nursing program to prepare students to care for older adults in acute care and long-term care settings. The Gero-STARR program will recruit first-semester nursing students enrolled in the university’s bachelor’s degree in nursing program who are from rural North Dakota communities, according to a Feb. […]