Justin Serrano has been appointed CEO of Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville, Ala., effective Dec. 9.

William Holubek, MD, has joined Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital as chief medical officer. The 400-bed facility is part of Baptist Health South Florida.

Portland State University will use a $1.2 million grant to increase the representation of Indigenous students in Oregon's healthcare workforce. 

Memorial Hermann Health System is facing a lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, alleging the Houston-based system barred off-duty police officers from carrying their firearms in its facilities in at least 10 instances, according to court records obtained by the Houston Chronicle.

Jim Parobek, president of OhioHealth Marion General Hospital, will assume leadership of another facility in addition to his current role, effective Dec. 1.

Medical residents and fellows affiliated with Brown University and employed at Care New England and Brown University Health hospitals in Rhode Island are taking steps toward unionization.

Phoenix-based Banner Health posted an operating income of $198.5 million (1.8% operating margin) through the first three quarters of 2024, up from an operating income of $149.4 million (1.4% margin) over the same period last year, according to its Nov. 21 financial report. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare entered into an asset purchase agreement on Oct. 3 to purchase Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare's Lehigh Acres, Fla.-based Lehigh Regional Medical Center. 

Alistair Erskine, MD, enterprise chief information and digital officer at Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, is using live-streaming technology to connect with frontline staff and drive organizational improvement.

New York state has introduced new regulations aimed at curbing the practices of pharmacy benefit managers, including divisions of CVS Health, Cigna Group and UnitedHealth Group, Bloomberg reported Nov. 20. 

Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Health Care System is investing $160 million to transition to an Epic EHR system.

Anil Ravandur has been named the new chief information officer and vice president of the office of information technology at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 

Amarillo, Texas-based Northwest Texas Healthcare Systems has closed its two freestanding emergency departments in Amarillo due to hospital contractor NES Health's inability to meet coverage requirements.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit and Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health have formed a clinical partnership that will give patients at five CommonSpirit hospitals access to physicians and providers at the academic health system. 

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health laid off about 40 leadership-level employees, or fewer than 2% of its leaders, last week throughout the organization, Alan Wolf, a health system spokesperson, confirmed in a statement shared with Becker's on Nov. 21.

Artificial intelligence can streamline operational efficiencies, elevate precision medicine and boost overall clinical care. But it has a dark side for hospitals as well.

The 50 most innovative artificial intelligence companies in 2024 include three focused on healthcare, Fortune reported.

Two health systems have partnered with Epic to expand access to healthcare for veterans — and are encouraging their peers in the industry to do the same.

While health system CIO pay continues to rise, turnover for IT chiefs has also been accelerating.

Arizona, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas have the most top-ranked hospitals for heart valve replacement in the U.S., according to the WebMD Choice Awards.