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 ...

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 ...

The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic has been providing virtual second opinions to tens of thousands of patients a year — and is expanding. The Clinic, a joint venture between Cleveland Clinic and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is making measurable progress in its effort to implement a unified Oracle Health EHR system across all VA medical centers by 2031, according to Paul Lawrence, PhD, ...

All 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories have agreed to a $7.5 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma over its role in the opioid epidemic, NPR reported June 16. The agreement, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Epic EHR system includes a field for “citizenship,” Mississippi Today reported June 16. An Epic spokesperson told the publication that the feature was ...

Orthopedic and musculoskeletal (MSK) care leaders are facing a mounting challenge: how to grow sustainably amid flat reimbursement, workforce shortages, and increased patient demand. The answer isn’t ...