Gregory Ammon was appointed president of Ascension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates, Ill., effective Sept. 13. Mr. Ammon has served as the hospital’s COO since 2023, overseeing growth strategies, clinical programming and patient experience, according to a…
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A national healthcare organization operating more than 100 hospitals spent one day examining how it requests, approves and pays for locum tenens coverage. The exercise required no extra spend and produced five recommendations. Leaders had reason to look. Locum tenens…
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As clinical AI moves from isolated deployments to enterprise infrastructure, health system leaders face a more consequential question: which technologies deliver meaningful value today while continuing to evolve with the needs of the enterprise? Health systems must assess whether the…
Sep 29, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Stephon Proctor, MD, Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Jill Reeves, Vice President of Quality, Baylor Scott & White
- Nadim Ilbawi, MD, Vice President, Clinical Success & Strategy, Abridge
Query volume and documentation accuracy are supposed to move together. At one West Virginia University Health System hospital, they moved in opposite directions: hospitalist queries fell 30% in 2025 compared with 2024, while severity capture improved. That happened because WVU…
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The CDC predicts 67,798 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. during the 12 months ending in March 2026, a 12.3% decrease compared to the same time period in the previous year, according to an Aug. 31 news release from the…
Northern Nevada Health System based in Reno has reopened two facilities Aug. 28 after evacuation orders related to the Hawk Fire prompted their closures. The emergency room at North Valleys, an extension of Northern Nevada Medical Center, resumed normal operations…
New York City-based NYU Langone Health selected William Gordon Frankle, MD, to lead the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He will take over as chair in September. Dr. Frankle most recently held three roles at NYU…
California claimed six of the 10 best US cities for sober living, while Texas filled all five of the bottom spots, according to a new study from Mandala Healing Center shared with Becker’s. The study ranked 70 major US cities…
Behavioral health-related emergency department visits among Capital Blue Cross members dropped 9% in 2025 versus the 2022 to 2024 average, according to an Aug. 17 report from the insurer. The improvement was even sharper for members who got care sooner…
HHS awarded $77 million in new grant funding for substance use prevention, treatment and recovery, community mental health, suicide prevention and crisis services. The awards included $22.2 million for substance use prevention, $23.6 million for substance use treatment and recovery,…