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Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Cheyenne (Wyo.) Regional Health System and HSHS Holy Family Hospital, Greenville, Ill., name CEOs.
Also in this roundup of nurse-related news: a school nurse saves a student’s life, and executive moves in the field.
King’s Daughters’Hospital in Madison, Ind., beefed up security, training and communication after a shooting in its emergency department.
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: North Country Healthcare, Littleton, N.H., names CEO; and South County Health, Wakefield, R.I., selects CEO.
Harney District Hospital, Burns, Ore., is one of many hospitals nationwide that have embraced the Lean mentality, modeled after Toyota’s discipline of lean manufacturing in the 1950s to ensure high quality products. At AHA’s 2019 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, attendees learned how rural…
Also in this weekly roundup of nursing news: video of nurse singing to patient goes viral, and executive moves in the field.
As the 2019 chair of the AHA’s Section for Small or Rural Hospitals, I can attest that AHA is stepping up in a big way to grapple with the issues that affect many rural hospitals.
Glendale, Calif.-based Adventist Medical Center has built a growing community of grief support facilitators.
Also in this roundup of hospital and health system leadership changes: Sutter Health names first chief population officer, and Cache Valley Hospital names chief medical officer.