Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital–Needham (Mass.) has welcomed Randolph “Randy” Howard Jr. as its new COO. Mr. Howard joins from Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., another member of ...

St. Louis-based Ascension said June 17 that it has entered an agreement to acquire AmSurg, an ASC operator with more than 250 facilities across 34 states. Six things to know: 1. The move will ...

U.S. News & World Report published its 11th annual Best Global Universities rankings June 17, evaluating 2,250 top institutions across 105 countries based on their global and regional research ...

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth has appointed new chief medical officers at two of its hospitals. Omayra Mansfield, MD, has been named vice president and CMO at AdventHealth Celebration in ...

Despite a “significant decrease” in the clinical risk of heart failure patients admitted to hospitals acquired by private equity firms, clinical outcomes did not improve, according to a study ...

A Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center team has performed a fully robotic heart transplant. The procedure marks the first fully robotic heart transplant to be performed on an adult patient ...

Cleveland Clinic patients who received the Ross procedure for aortic valve replacement after 2000 have experienced better outcomes than patients who received the procedure prior to 2000, according to ...

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has signed a new three-year agreement with Latent Health to expand the use of AI tools that streamline medication prior authorizations across its network. The ...

A physician from Porter Ranch, Calif., was sentenced to 54 months in prison for falsifying home health certifications and fraudulently billing Medicare. What happened?

HealthCare and the hybrid care company OnMed have opened a virtual care station at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn. The walk-in telehealth kiosk, sponsored by Hartford HealthCare, ...

A coalition of universities, medical centers and other research institutions have pitched proposals on new funding models for how the federal government covers indirect costs that support research ...

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services has rolled out an AI agent to call patients and check in on patients after they’re discharged from the hospital. The 29-hospital system originally ...