CHARLOTTE, N.C., January 26, 2018 – Carolinas HealthCare System’s Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute’s clinical team has enrolled and treated the first patient in the investigational device exemption study for a venous self-expanding stent system. Erin Murphy, MD, FACS, director of Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute’s venous and lymphatic program and Gregory Stanley, MD, FACS, […]
Monday, January 22, 2018 – When the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute launched just over four years ago, nothing like it existed in academia. The nonprofit academic corporation – a joint venture between Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medicine, with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. as their partner – was tasked […]
SAINT LOUIS – January 18, 2018 – To help patients by addressing the often unwarranted shortages and high costs of lifesaving generic medications, Ascension is collaborating with Intermountain Healthcare, SSM Health and Trinity Health, in consultation with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs* (VA), to form a new, not-for-profit generic drug company. Intermountain Healthcare is […]
DALLAS January 11, 2018 –(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC) announced today that it has completed the sale of its Philadelphia-area acute care hospitals and related operations to American Academic Health System, LLC (AAHS), an affiliate of Paladin Healthcare. Ownership and management of the hospitals and related operations will transfer to AAHS on Thursday, January 11, […]
Veteran executive to chair Information Management group ARLINGTON, Texas – January 10, 2018 — Diann H. Smith, vice president of Health Information Management Services & Clinical Documentation Improvement at Texas Health Resources, was recently elected as the 2018 president/chair of the American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) Board of Directors. The AHIMA Board is comprised […]
DALLAS January 5, 2018 — Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), Tenet Healthcare Corporation (“Tenet”) (NYSE:THC) and United Surgical Partners International (USPI), a Tenet subsidiary, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for a joint partnership to create an orthopedic care center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Located in a new building to […]
DALLAS & ST. LOUIS, Mo. January 5, 2018 –(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC) and St. Luke’s Hospital, an independent, nonprofit healthcare provider in Chesterfield, Mo., announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement for St. Luke’s to purchase Des Peres Hospital as well as Tenet-owned physician practices and other hospital-affiliated operations in St. […]
Patients can get care anytime at a convenient location near Carolinas Medical Center CHARLOTTE, N.C., January 5, 2018 – Carolinas HealthCare System announced the opening of a new 24-hour urgent care near Uptown Charlotte. The 5,000 square foot building sits adjacent to Carolinas Medical Center, at the intersection of East Morehead Street and South Kings […]
DALLAS January 4, 2018 —Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC) and Baylor Scott & White Health announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement to restructure their joint venture arrangements for three North Texas hospitals: Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Centennial, Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Lake Pointe, and Baylor Scott […]
Veteran executive returns to facility after five years at Texas Health Southwest FORT WORTH, Texas – January 2, 2018 — Joseph DeLeon will become president of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth effective Jan. 21, 2018. It’s a return back to Fort Worth for DeLeon after almost five years as president of Texas Health […]