An Amherst native and diehard Buffalo Bills fan's $217,000 donation to Oishei Children's Hospital has pushed donations made to a fund in the name of Josh Allen's grandmother past the $1 million mark. Sue McCollum of St. Louis, Mo., said she made the donation in honor of her late parents, Frederick D. and Joan R. McCollum.
The new Kaleida Health CFO comes to the system from AMITA Health in Chicago, a $4 billion health system that includes 19 hospitals and more than 200 ambulatory and outpatient locations with 24,000 employees and 800 employed physicians. He succeeds Robert Nesselbush, who takes over as CEO in late December.
Bartlett Regional Hospital’s board of directors has a new president. During its last meeting of 2020, the board voted Kenny Solomon-Gross to be its president. Members also voted to keep Rosemary Hagevig in the vice president’s spot and Mark Johnson as board secretary.
Philip Esformes, a former Miami Beach healthcare mogul convicted of playing a central role in one of the nation’s biggest Medicare fraud cases and using his ill-gotten millions to pay bribes for favors, won a commutation of his 20-year sentence from President Donald Trump Tuesday night.
Penobscot Valley Hospital, a 25-bed hospital in Lincoln that sought bankruptcy protection almost two years ago, on Friday afternoon said the critical access facility has completed a Chapter 11 financial restructuring process and emerged from bankruptcy.