Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has tapped two CEOs for two of its Colorado Springs, Colo., hospitals.

Indianapolis Rehabilitation Hospital named Logan Savage CEO.

Akira Endo, PhD, a Japanese biochemist whose research helped create statins, died June 5 at 90, The New York Times reported June 12.

Meadowbrook, Pa.-based Holy Redeemer Health System had its rating downgraded to "BB-" from "BB+" by Fitch.

Becker's reported on four healthcare CEOs' retirement announcements between May 15 and June 11: 

Lee Boyles has served as president of Intermountain Health's Montana and Wyoming market and president of St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Billings, Mont., since March.

CMS expects national health spending to reach $7.7 trillion by 2032, with 2023 expenditures projected to have hit $4.8 trillion and have grown by a rate of 7.5%. 

Service Employees International Union 121RN was ordered May 31 by a Los Angeles-based federal arbitrator to pay Riverside (Calif.) Community Hospital, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, $6.26 million in damages for holding an "unlawful strike" in June 2020. 

Public health and the rest of the healthcare delivery system have long operated in silos in the U.S. While progress was made during the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC Director Mandy Cohen, MD, stressed that now is the time to build on that momentum and invest in data modernization and interoperability efforts. 

Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia has been given $10.8 million to further pancreatic cancer research, it announced June 12. 

Though hospital operating margins seem to be recovering, first-quarter results have been a mixed bag, and 40% of hospitals are still losing money, according to Kaufman Hall. 

Andrew Geller, MD, and Michael Nurok, PhD, have been appointed the new Cedars-Sinai department of anesthesiology co-chairs.  

Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Health Care System has named Jen Connelly-Rosati vice president of financial operations, according to a June 11 post on her LinkedIn page. 

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health has selected new leaders for its acute and post-acute care division and its ambulatory division, as well as a new chief consumer officer.

Twice a year, nurses and supply chain workers at Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health meet up at a Wound Summit to share best skin health practices. 

A staffing law passed in 2023 in Oregon has resulted in hundreds of complaints and warnings against at least two hospitals, according to the Oregon Health Authority, which provided data to Becker's.

Five-hundred physicians affiliated with Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital will be using AI ambient dictation technology from Microsoft's Nuance to help with documentation. 

CLEAR, the company known for biometric ID checks at airports, is partnering with InterSystems to enhance patient data management. 

Medline told customers of 89 lots of endotracheal tubes to destroy inventory after receiving reports of the inflation tube tearing and detaching, the FDA said June 11. 

A new risk assessment for heart disease found that 40% fewer people would meet the criteria for a statin prescription, NBC News reported June 11.