Category: Press Release

It was a snowy afternoon in Bozeman, a city of nearly 60,000 nestled among the mountains of southern Montana. Temperatures hovered in the mid-30s. The city’s mobile crisis team had just gotten a call about a man walking around outside without shoes. The man’s family told the team he was having a mental health crisis […]

In the final days of 2025, governors around the country trumpeted the hundreds of millions of federal dollars they won from a new, $50 billion rural health fund. But plans to spend those nine-digit awards aren’t all warmly received. At least one group of Republican state lawmakers appears to have scuttled an initiative preapproved by […]

West Plains, Mo.-based Ozarks Healthcare named Curtis Horstman, DO, chief medical officer. In his role, Dr. Horstman will provide physician leadership, support clinical quality initiatives and guide strategy to strengthen patient care across the system, according to a March 2 LinkedIn post from the system. Previously, he worked in the emergency department and played a […]

Boulder City (Nev.) Hospital will transition from a critical access hospital to a rural emergency hospital effective May 1, according to regulatory filings and public notices. In a notice filed under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the hospital said it will permanently discontinue its acute inpatient care units as part of the […]

Google continues aggressively hiring for jobs focused on enhancing the health features of its devices.  Here are three healthcare-related jobs for which Google is hiring for in March: Software engineer III, engineering productivity, Fitbit Health Experiences (Mountain View, Calif.): Will write product or system development code. Salary range: $141,000-$202,000. Senior data scientist manager, Health (Mountain […]

The New York State Attorney General has ordered New York City-based NYU Langone Health to restore its transgender youth health program, less than two weeks after the hospital said it was discontinuing the program for adolescents.  “You are hereby advised to immediately resume all service offerings as they had before the change in policy and […]

One common mistake in healthcare is making data analytics the deliverable. But data often informs the true deliverables: human action, behavioral change and system thinking, Brandon Danz, PhD, vice president of population health at York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health, told Becker’s. “Too often, organizations think spreadsheets are progress. They’re not. They’re tools,” he said. This disconnect […]

Cincinnati-based TriHealth has appointed Ginger Madden chief people officer, effective in early April. Ms. Madden joined TriHealth in 1995 and held roles including senior director of total rewards and human resources operations and vice president of total rewards and human resources, according to a March 3 health system news release shared with Becker’s. She was […]

Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine have developed a lipid nanoparticle system capable of delivering mRNA to insulin-producing beta cells, delaying progression of Type 1 diabetes. In proof-of-concept experiments, the team used nanoparticles made of four lipids to deliver mRNA encoding PD-L1, a cell surface protein that limits immune system activity. The approach prompted […]

Marissa Jamarik, DNP, RN, has joined Beaufort (S.C.) Memorial Hospital as vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer. As CNO of the 201-bed hospital, Dr. Jamarik will oversee nursing professional development, workforce initiatives and lead efforts to advance patient care, according to a March 2 news release. Dr. Jamarik brings decades of […]