Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network is providing its cardiologists with a personal virtual care team. The program is launching with 24 cardiologists, who will each have a virtual team consisting of a nurse practitioner, medical assistant and registered…
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Controlled substance waste is one of the most overlooked cost centers in hospital pharmacy. Each waste event represents not just a lost dose, but lost nursing time, compliance overhead and real diversion risk. A recent multi-site study quantified the problem:…
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Matthew Gimbar, PharmD
Senior Associate Director, Pharmacy Operations, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences Syste
Paul Stranges, PharmD, MSHI, BCACP, AE-C, FCCP
Assistant Director, Opioid Stewardship & Drug Diversion, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System
John Hertig, PharmD, MS, CPPS, FASHP, FFIP
Founder and President, Hertig Healthcare Advising
UTHealth Houston established a department of cardiology at McGovern Medical School, effective May 1. The department is led by founding chair Biswajit Kar, MD, and becomes the school’s 24th academic department. Faculty, including more than 70 physicians and scientists, will…
Across hospitals, patient flow challenges are playing out daily — delayed discharges, constrained capacity and growing pressure on emergency departments. These issues rarely start in one department. They reflect how effectively patients move across the entire system, from admission through…
Pharmacy is no longer a cost center defending its budget. It is an enterprise lever, and the executives running it are being asked to behave — and be staffed — accordingly. At the 2026 CPO Summit, the chief pharmacy officers…
AI is a people-and-process story — not a tech one. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, the CIOs, CDOs, and CMIOs running Cleveland Clinic, Penn Medicine, Jefferson Health, Prisma Health, Northwell Health, Allina Health, Ochsner Health and CommonSpirit told each other…
The CEOs named the mandate. The CFOs are building the operating answer. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, the CFOs running Cleveland Clinic, Ascension, Kaiser Permanente, Sentara Health, Allina Health, NYC Health + Hospitals, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth and Temple Health told…
The payer business model built for the last twenty years can’t carry the next ten. At Becker’s Spring Payer Issues Roundtable, the leaders running health plans at Humana, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Shield of California, Elevance Health, Highmark, Oscar Health and…
The cost-cutting playbook that carried health systems through the last decade has run out of road. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, the CEOs running Sutter Health, CommonSpirit Health, Banner Health, Penn Medicine, Dartmouth Health, Inova, Boston Children’s Hospital and Ascension…
Medical City Denton (Texas) has expanded services through the opening of an $8 million cardiovascular ICU. The eight-bed unit is dedicated to advanced cardiovascular and vascular critical care services, according to a health system news release shared with Becker’s. The…