The UVM Health Network announced Thursday that it has appointed Dr. Sunil "Sunny" Eappen, a Boston-based physician and health administrator, as its next president and chief executive officer. Eappen comes from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he serves as chief medical officer and senior vice president of medical affairs. He is also an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
General Electric (GE.N) on Monday set the first week of 2023 to complete the spinoff of its healthcare unit and named a new board for the planned independent company. The new board members of the unit, which will be named GE HealthCare, include its chief executive officer, Peter Arduini, as well as executives from Honeywell International Inc(HON.O)and Amazon Web Services. Including GE CEO Larry Culp as non-executive chairman, the board will have 10 members.
On Monday, President Biden gave a speech at the Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, outlining the progress on his own self-described moonshot: ending cancer.
The U.S. monkeypox outbreak appears to be slowing. New infections are starting to decline in some large cities where the virus hit early and spread quickly.
Plans for a proposed hospital sale in central New Jersey include closing St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton and shifting many of the hospital's services and programs to nearby Capital Health Regional Medical Center.