VUMC performs its first combined lung and liver transplant

Dec 17, 2023 at 12:05 am by Staff

  Matt Batcheldor   Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently performed its first combined lung and liver transplant. Connie Rankin of Memphis, Tennessee, re.... Read More

James Newman named Vice President and CFO for Clinical Support Services Division

Dec 17, 2023 at 12:02 am by Staff

  John Howser   James Newman, MBA, CPA, Associate Vice President for Finance, has been named Vice President of Finance and Divisional Chief Financial Officer for.... Read More

Rift Over When to Use N95s Puts Health Workers at Risk Again

Dec 16, 2023 at 11:54 pm by Staff

  By Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News    Three years after more than 3,600 health workers died of covid-19, occupational safety experts warn that those o.... Read More

As Foundation for ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis Cracks, Fallout Spreads

Dec 16, 2023 at 11:38 pm by Staff

  By Renuka Rayasam and Markian Hawryluk and Samantha Young, KFF Health News   When Angelo Quinto’s family learned that officials b.... Read More

Millions in Opioid Settlement Funds Sit Untouched as Overdose Deaths Rise

Dec 16, 2023 at 10:14 pm by Staff

  By Katheryn Houghton and Aneri Pattani, KFF Health News  Nearly a year after Montana began receiving millions of dollars to invest in efforts to c.... Read More

Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Presents 2023 Physician Awards for Excellence in Clinical Leadership

Dec 16, 2023 at 09:48 pm by Staff

  Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford is pleased to recognize its 2023 honorees for outstanding accomplishments in clinical leadership. Dr. Brad Chesney has been recognize.... Read More

Compassus Senior V. P. and CMO Kurt Merkelz, MD, Receives 2024 McKnight’s Pinnacle Award

Dec 16, 2023 at 03:35 pm by Staff

  BRENTWOOD – Compassus, a leading national provider of integrated home-based health care services, proudly announces that Kurt Merkelz, MD, senior vice president.... Read More

"Home with Heart" Raffle Offers Chance to Win a New Willow Branch Home 

Dec 16, 2023 at 03:27 pm by Staff

  Proceeds Benefit Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt     In the season of giving, there’s no better way to.... Read More

Hospital Price Transparency Site Goes Online

Dec 16, 2023 at 02:30 pm by Staff

PatientRightsAdvocate.org (PRA) launched the Hospital Price Files Finder, the first-ever free and publicly available search tool that allows consumers to view the av.... Read More

AMA: Physicians Enthusiastic but Cautious About Health Care AI

Dec 14, 2023 at 10:02 pm by Staff

CHICAGO – Physicians are enthusiastic about augmented intelligence (AI) - often called artificial intelligence - and its assistive role in health care that enhances huma.... Read More