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New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System will again serve as the official medical services provider for the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, marking the 13th year of its partnership with the United States Tennis Association. The tournament begins Aug. 18 with Fan Week and runs through Sept. 7 at the…

Wendy Wilcox, MD, a prominent maternal mortality expert, has been selected to serve as chief of obstetrics and gynecology at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull in New York City’s Brooklyn borough.  Dr. Wilcox has worked in a variety of clinical leadership roles during her 15 years with the nation’s largest public…

HHS has launched Make America Healthy Again in Action, an interactive platform to track state- and federal-level reforms driven by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump’s MAHA agenda. “The MAHA in Action tracker puts the wins on the map,” Mr. Kennedy said in an Aug. 18…

Members of SEIU 1199NE have reached a tentative labor contract with Care New England’s Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I. Both parties confirmed the agreement in a brief joint statement shared with Becker’s. “On behalf of both Butler Hospital and members of the bargaining committee representing all job classifications of the…

AI is no longer an abstract concept for healthcare; it’s delivering measurable operational and clinical gains. But to capture value without leaving staff behind, leaders must take a deliberate, systemwide approach. During a recent discussion hosted by Becker’s Healthcare and Healthlink Advisors, Patrick Woodard, MD, CIO of Monument Health in…

President Donald Trump on Aug. 13 revoked Executive Order 14036, a 2021 directive issued under the Biden administration aimed at promoting competition across the U.S. economy, including healthcare. Five things to know: 1. Executive Order 14036 ((Promoting Competition in the American Economy) is no longer in effect. The Biden-era order,…

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has named Scott Turner as COO, effective Aug. 4. Mr. Turner brings more than 28 years of healthcare experience, including 18 years in pediatrics, according to an Aug. 14 news release. He most recently served as executive vice president, COO and president at Milwaukee-based Children’s Wisconsin,…

The digital leader of Sayre, Pa.-based Guthrie plans to join San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare as chief digital information officer. Terri Couts, RN, who serves as executive vice president and chief digital officer at Guthrie, a six-hospital system, said in an Aug. 17 LinkedIn post that she starts at Sharp, which…

Ambience Healthcare has unveiled an AI assistant that allows clinicians to ask questions in the EHR. The AI startup said Chart Chat is the first “production-quality solution” of its kind built into Epic. The copilot merges patient EHR data with medical content from BMJ Best Practice and OpenAI’s reinforcement fine-tuning…

Philadelphia-based Temple Health is opening a new women’s and family hospital to expand labor and delivery care, WHYY reported Aug. 18. Temple Health performs an average of 2,000 deliveries each year, the majority of which occur at the system’s main campus hospital. Now, most of those services will be shifted…