Heather Corte-Real, DNP, MSN, is joining Wilson (Calif.) Medical Center as chief nursing officer. 

A team at Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare's Children’s Hospital of Illinois became the first in the world to implant an extravascular implantable, cardioverter-defibrillator in a pediatric patient who had suffered sudden cardiac arrest. 

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass., and its parent organization, Boston-based Beth Israel Lahey Health, over a December 2023 data breach that exposed the personal and medical information of 316,342 patients.

Connecticut-based telehealth company Meditelecare, which operates in at least 17 states including Kentucky, has agreed to pay $358,514 to resolve allegations of improper Medicare billing.

Respiratory illness activity remains high nationwide, with emergency department visits and positive test rates rising for COVID-19, seasonal influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, according to a Jan. 3 news release from the CDC. 

Prosser (Wash.) Memorial Health will open a new $125 million hospital on Feb. 1.

Jay Carmichael has been named president and CEO of Paris, Ill.-based Horizon Health, effective Jan. 20.

The U.S. Labor Department has reached a $1.9 million settlement for back wages for workers at Kent Hospital in Warwick, R.I., and its parent organization, Providence, R.I.-based Care New England.

President-elect Donald Trump is assembling his cabinet and senior staff for his upcoming term.

The Women's Choice Award has recognized 457 hospitals on its annual list of the Best Hospitals for Patient Safety.

Flint, Mich.-based Insight Health System acquired Coldwater (Mich.) Regional Hospital from Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica on Dec. 1, 2024, after signing a definitive agreement in September.

The Pennant Group has acquired seven Signature Healthcare at Home locations in Oregon.

Connecticut's Office of Health Strategy has fined Stafford-based Johnson Memorial Hospital $153,500 for closing its labor and delivery unit without certificate-of-need approval.

Neumora Therapeutics announced that its antidepressant candidate, navacaprant, did not meet the primary endpoint in a Phase 3 study for major depressive disorder. 

Eli Lilly is intervening in a lawsuit filed by a trade group representing compounding pharmacies, aiming to block the FDA's determination that the shortage of its GLP-1 medications, Mounjaro and Zepbound, has ended. 

Rob McLin plans to retire in January 2026 as president and CEO of Good Samaritan in Vincennes, Ind.

Joe Delatorre, CEO of Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health, has been appointed president of a new Orlando Health hospital in Wesley Chapel, Fla., scheduled to open in 2026.

Through recently passed ballot initiatives and legislation, states across the U.S. are implementing healthcare and workforce-related changes in 2025.

Of the hundreds of drugs that entered the U.S. market in 2024, GoodRx has named 19 of them as the most notable. 

The following hospital and health system executive moves have been shared with or reported by Becker's since Dec. 24: