Madeline Ashley

In late August, Nashua-based Southern New Hampshire Health named Shannon Levesque its first chief people officer. In her new role, Ms. Levesque will oversee the health system’s talent strategy and workforce development for more than 2,700 employees. Southern New Hampshire Health is a nonprofit system that comprises Nashua-based Southern New…

Rochester, N.Y.-based Monroe Community Hospital will receive more than $10 million from the state government to expand capacity and care. The funds will be used to increase pediatric bed capacity, enhance care in the ventilator unit and renovate an adjacent outdoor playground, according to an Aug. 27 Monroe County news…

AARP and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses awarded grants to 20 hospitals to expand or launch nurse innovation programs. The groups awarded more than $355,000 to 20 projects offering innovative and replicable solutions to strengthen the nursing workforce by creating and sustaining healthy work environments aimed at improving recruitment…

Stickers have been popping up on walls and poles around Chattanooga, Tenn., promoting Chattanooga-based Erlanger Health’s naming rights for a new minor league baseball stadium. Only the health system said it didn’t put them there. “Someone’s out there slapping them up, but it’s not Erlanger,” Erlanger CEO Jim Coleman told…

Wythe County Community Hospital in Wytheville, Va., has named Theresa Dix, MSN, RN, as CEO, effective Sept. 15. Ms. Dix brings more than 40 years of healthcare experience, serving as chief nursing officer since 2022, according to an Aug. 27 hospital news release. She began her career at the hospital…

Charlotte Brown-Zalewa has been named vice president of marketing and communications at Manchester, N.H.-based Elliot Health System. Ms. Brown-Zalewa most recently worked in strategic communications at York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health. She has also served in marketing and physician relations leadership roles at Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health, Andover, Mass.-based…

CVS Pharmacy will pay $12.25 million to settle allegations that it overcharged MassHealth, Massachusetts’ Medicaid program by not offering the lowest available prices for prescription drugs.  The lawsuit, filed by the Massachusetts attorney general in April 2025, alleged that CVS offered lower prices to cash-paying customers through a discount program…

Fewer than 50 people have undergone partial heart transplants, but the procedure is emerging as a potential solution to the increase in discarded organs and growing transplant waiting list, according to an Aug. 27 report from The New York Times.  More than 2,000 children and 100,000 adults in the U.S.…

In May, a group of nurses at Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network’s Allegheny General Hospital began participating in a cardiologist-designed well-being program aimed at improving heart health. Developed by cardiologist Indu Poornima, MD, the program was made possible by a $100,000 donation from an unnamed patient. The patient’s own heart health…

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth has opened the AdventHealth Heart & Vascular Institute on its Littleton, Colo., campus.  The new facility represents a $150 million investment for the health system, according to an Aug. 26 report from NBC affiliate 9News.  Services provided at the heart center will include electrophysiology, surgery, intensive…