A 63-year-old man was arrested in connection with the stabbing of his wife, who was a patient at Vallejo, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, Fox affiliate KTVU reported Nov. 18.

Alison Flynn Gaffney was appointed CEO of two Banner Health hospitals in Tucson, Ariz.: Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and Banner – University Medical Center South.

Among the leaders of the 12 U.S. hospitals that have earned consecutive "A" safety grades from The Leapfrog Group since 2012, most have assumed their roles within the past three years.

Nurses at the University of Illinois Health system, part of the University of Illinois Chicago, have reached a tentative labor contract after a four-day strike.

Voters in San Benito (Calif.) County have approved Measure X, which authorizes the San Benito Health Care District to negotiate a lease-to-own agreement with Flint, Mich.-based Insight Foundation of America, a nonprofit corporation, for financially troubled Hollister, Calif.-based Hazel Hawkins Hospital.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare introduced a revamped orientation for new employees in June 2023, which has received high praise in feedback surveys and contributed to a significant reduction in employee turnover, President and CEO Jeffrey Flaks told Becker's.

Developments on X, formerly Twitter, have sparked interest and concern as users submit medical images like X-rays and MRIs to Grok, an AI chatbot introduced by Elon Musk, for potential diagnoses, The New York Times reported Nov. 18.

Primary care physicians at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals, both part of Mass General Brigham, are taking steps toward a unionization election.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit reported an operating loss of $331 million (-3.5% operating margin) in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, an improvement from a $402 million operating loss (-4.7% margin) reported over the same period last year, according to its Nov. 18 financial report. 

Melody Trimble, MSN, has been appointed transitional CEO of West Plains, Mo.-based Ozarks Healthcare as the board searches for a permanent leader.

Donald Wiley, president and CEO of Dignity Health St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton, Calif., retired Nov. 8 after 34 years with the hospital.

Nick Bejarano has been named president and CEO of AdventHealth Manchester (Ky.), effective Dec. 15.

Staten Island University Hospital, part of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, has named Judy McLaughlin, DNP, RN, as chief nursing officer.

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The CDC could face budget cuts and restructuring under Donald Trump's second presidential term, according to reports from NPR and Politico. 

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth has named Erik Wangsness president and CEO of AdventHealth Tampa (Fla.), effective Dec. 15.

Large language models can complete 50 simultaneous tasks and drive a seventeenfold cost reduction, but any additional tasks will cause performance deterioration, according to a study published Nov. 18 in Nature. 

A medical school in Fort Worth, Texas, allegedly illegally disposed of bodies after they were used for training and research, according to a cease-and-desist letter obtained by NBC News. 

Chesterfield, Mo.-based St. Luke's Hospital has appointed Kimberly Foxworth, DNP, as the health system's new chief nursing executive.

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health has permanently named David Cooke, MD, as physician-in-chief for the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center.