Exceptional Healthcare plans to build a new hospital south of Phoenix after acquiring 10 acres of land for $1.13 million. The new hospital will sit at the northeast corner of Interstate 10 and Sunshine Boulevard in Eloy.
University Health on Friday announced that George B. Hernández Jr., who has served as the health system’s president and CEO for 19 years, would retire in 2024. Hernández, 71, spent 41 years at University Health, the public hospital district for Bexar County, according to a news release.
Officials from Milford Regional Medical Center and UMass Memorial Health say the two hospitals could be affiliated by next fall. Milford Regional and Worcester-based UMass Memorial held a webinar Thursday to discuss the ongoing proposed affiliation, which would not be a merger.
Gene sequencing company Illumina said on Sunday it will divest cancer diagnostic test maker Grail after the companies battled both U.S. and European antitrust enforcers for more than two years.
That trend of vertical integration was on full display in 2023, a year when the country's biggest pharmacy chain bought a primary care provider, and the biggest private insurer branched further into home health.
St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula has a new chief executive. William J. Calhoun was chosen for the role by Providence, the health care company based in Washington state that runs St. Pat's and other hospitals in the region.