Here are 51 hospitals opening or breaking ground on rehabilitation facilities or expanding rehabilitation units in 2024:

Jackson-based West Tennessee Healthcare has promoted its COO to the top leadership role following the death of President and CEO James "JR" Ross, BSN.

The FDA is reassessing the approval of immune checkpoint inhibitors for treating advanced HER2-negative gastric adenocarcinoma, questioning their broad application regardless of patients' PD-L1 expression levels. 

On Sept. 24, Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen testified at a Senate committee hearing about the costs for Wegovy and Ozempic.

A recent study from Harvard Medical School introduced TxGNN, an innovative AI tool designed to identify potential drug candidates for over 17,000 rare and neglected diseases. 

The World Medical Innovation Forum brought clinical innovators and executives from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham together with investors and tech company leaders Sept. 23-25 near Boston.

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said 100% of Epic health systems can interoperate and athenahealth has a high interoperability rate, but that still leaves a lot of organizations that can't easily share data.

The financial fallout from recent data breaches in the healthcare industry continues to raise alarms as organizations grapple with the costs of cyberattacks and ensuing lawsuits.

The operator of Nacogdoches (Texas) Memorial Hospital will no longer be required to fully reimburse Texas Health and Human Services more than $7 million in overpayments by the end of the year, The Daily Sentinel reported Sept. 24. 

Hospitals are working to implement new guidelines and federal initiations to address rising rates of preeclampsia, KFF Health News reported Sept. 25.

Healthcare is quickly integrating artificial intelligence into many administrative and clinical care functions. Early results at academic medical centers and large innovative health systems are showing areas where the technology (if deployed thoughtfully) can create a huge boon to hospitals and patient care.

Health system IT employees are keeping their options open, with 77% actively seeking new jobs or planning to do so within the next year, according to Bloomforce's "2024 EHR Salary Insights Report."

Health systems are increasingly trimming executive positions and pay to stabilize their financial footing amid rising operational costs, workforce shortages and inflationary pressures. 

Resident physicians and fellows at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, which comprises the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have reached a tentative agreement on their first contract. 

The Faith Community ER in Bowie (Texas), part of Jacksboro, Texas-based Faith Community Health System, will close Oct. 6 nearly one year after opening due to a lack of financial assistance.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that will prohibit medical debt from being included on consumers' credit reports. 

A $100 million investment underway at HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress will facilitate easier expansion projects in the future and support the hospital's broader strategic goals, the hospital's CEO recently told Becker's. 

Fort Kent-based Northern Maine Medical Center will cut its children's behavioral health unit and has applied for a critical access designation to address financial issues, The County reported Sept. 25.

Cory Ferrier has been named COO of AdventHealth Littleton (Colo.), effective Nov. 4.

Tina Burch, MSN, RN, was appointed CEO of Doctors Hospital of Manteca (Calif.), part of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, according to a Sept. 24 news release shared with Becker's.