Douglas Arvin, West Market vice president and CFO of Essentia Health, has deployed multiple strategies to improve access and margin performance over the last few years.

New York City-based NYU Langone Health expects its merger with Patchogue, N.Y.-based Long Island Community Hospital to be completed in about a year, a spokesperson for the health system told Becker's. 

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham now treats patients needing emergency or urgent care at home.

The chief research information officer of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is one of the newest governing council members for Epic's Cosmos research network.

"Hospital at home" suffers from what economists call a "common agency problem," three experts on the care model wrote in Health Affairs.

Stace Holland was named CEO of Thomas H. Boyd Memorial Hospital in Carrollton, Ill.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine saw more than 5,800 patient transfers in the nine months ending March 31, a 16% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to a May 6 report from The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Bronson Battle Creek (Mich.) Hospital has named Ali Ghasham, MD, vice president and chief medical officer. 

Better pay rates was the most important aspect of the workplace for nurses, according to a recent AMN Healthcare report.

Since late last year, Becker's has covered eight instances in which CMS issued an immediate jeopardy warning to hospitals. To avert the loss of CMS funding, hospitals that receive such warnings must submit and implement a comprehensive plan of correction to address any deficiencies for which they were cited. 

The California Department of Public Health recently fined a Prime Healthcare hospital approximately $244,000 after a wrong-site nerve block and adverse events, according to state documents. 

Dallas, Texas-based Steward Health Care filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will receive millions in financing from Medical Properties Trust to maintain operations at existing hospitals and clinics, according to a May 6 health system news release.

The FDA is urging drug companies to pinpoint the cancer drug dosage that has the greatest impact with the fewest side effects. Its most recent study scrutinizes the dosage of a lung cancer drug, The Washington Post reported May 6.

Keene, N.H.-based Cheshire Medical Center CFO Dan Gross has retired, according to a May 3 post on his LinkedIn page. 

Philadelphia-based Rite Aid has said since it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy seven months ago that it will close more than 520 locations, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of court records.  

Ridgewood, N.J.-based Valley Health System's new "smart hospital" in Paramus, N.J., is using Meditech's Expanse EHR system. 

A 12-year-old boy is the first commercial patient in the world to receive an FDA-approved gene therapy for sickle cell disease, The New York Times reported May 6.

Here is a look at Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare's payer mix in the first quarter of 2024, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing: 

The Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences, a tuition-free public high school, is set to open in Demopolis in fall 2026. 

Ascension and Renown Health were among the hospitals and health systems that named new CFOs in April.