Private equity investors are rapidly scooping up thousands of healthcare businesses, taking over emergency rooms or entire hospitals, and becoming major players in physician practices and patient care, from cradle to grave.
The merger would extend access to the University of Kansas Health System's specialized health care services, such as vascular surgery and urology, across southern Johnson County.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office has joined the effort to stop the closure of Delaware County Memorial Hospital, and a Chester County senior judge has been appointed to oversee the matter after the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas recused itself.
As Hurricane Ian churned across Florida late last week, Deborah Angerami was packing up and moving from the state she had called home her entire adult life. It was nearly 4 a.m. Friday when she finally was able to settle into her new home in Albany and get some sleep. Even though she wasn't officially scheduled to begin her job as Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital's CEO until Monday, she showed up Friday, ready to get to work.
Though he's held six positions at community hospitals in his career, one thing that is different for the 51-bed Sonoma Valley Hospital CEO John Hennelly this time around is he's not actually employed by the hospital. Hennelly's employer is the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). The Sonoma Valley Healthcare District has an agreement with the university to run the hospital. He talks with the Business Journal about the UCSF agreement and why he came to the hospital this past spring.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has issued another executive order to continue the city's ban on redevelopment permits for the site of the closing Atlanta Medical Center.