(CNN) -- Big changes are coming to the CDC, where director Dr. Rochelle Walensky met with senior leadership at the agency Wednesday to lay out her plans for overhauling how the agency works.
Two hospitals in the CSRA – Doctors Hospital and Aiken Regional Medical Center – have new CEOs.
Doctors Hospital of Augusta announced the selection of Joanna Conley as chief executive officer, effective Monday. Conley joins Doctors Hospital from HCA Healthcare's TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
Meanwhile, Aiken Regional Medical Centers announces the appointment of Matthew Merrifield as chief executive officer, effective Monday. Merrifield returns to Aiken Regional after two years with Summerlin Hospital Medical Center, a Universal Health Services 485-bed acute care facility, in Las Vegas where he served as chief operating officer.
The latest owners of the long-vacant Sears store and surrounding block in downtown Salt Lake City want to tear down the building. Intermountain Healthcare bought the iconic property at 754 S. State St. and nine adjoining parcels on that block in December. Then, three months ago, the hospital system applied at City Hall to demolish the empty, 75-year-old, faded beige department store and a former auto repair shop to the west. So far, though, the Salt Lake City-based nonprofit chain hasn’t publicly shared its future vision for the key downtown locale and its sizable parking lot, which is currently fenced off and used for various kinds of storage.
A physician's lawyer appeared in an online celebration video shortly after a successful malpractice defense, bragging of his work and saying the case involved "a guy that was probably negligently killed, but we kind of made it look like other people did it."
RIDGECREST, Calif. (KERO) — Patients at the Ridgecrest Regional Hospital Cancer Center received a letter at the end of last month where they learned that the cancer center will no longer be providing treatment to people in the area.
BEDFORD, Ohio (WJW) – The city of Bedford continued its fight in court against the University Hospitals' decision to close its Bedford Medical Facility emergency department and inpatient services, effectively shutting down the community hospital Friday.