Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southlake named Jon Duckert president, effective Oct. 1. Mr. Duckert brings more than 20 years of healthcare leadership experience to the role, including more than 13 years leading joint venture hospitals and surgery centers within…
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Terry Reardon, MD, will close his Georgetown, S.C.-based internal medicine practice later this year, according to a Sept. 28 Facebook post. Dr. Reardon will see patients through Dec. 14 and will continue providing emergency care and honoring scheduled appointments until…
More than one-third of U.S. counties have no general surgeon, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The study mapped surgeons across 12 surgical specialties in every U.S. county, using April 2025 data…
Female physicians now earn $327,000 a year on average, up from $309,000 just two years ago. However, that progress has not dented the gap with their male counterparts, who average $429,000 per year, according to a new report from Medscape. …
Nurses at 10 SSM Dean Medical Group outpatient clinics in Dane County, Wis., voted to unionize. Seventy-one percent of the 340 nurses voted to form a union, according to a news release from SEIU Wisconsin shared with Becker’s. Nurses filed…
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Cincinnati-based Mercy Health, alleging the health system fired a Jewish orthopedic surgeon because of his religion and race shortly after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The lawsuit, filed Sept. 24,…
The U.S. is projected to face a shortage of 27,940 surgeons by 2038, and vascular surgery is expected to be hit hardest, according to a study from the American College of Surgeons. The researchers called it the first unified assessment…
Prices per inpatient stay at Maine Medical Center in Portland and Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor are more than $30,000, compared with a national median of approximately $23,000, according to data analyzed by the state’s Office of…
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health is renaming its Broadway Same Day Surgery Center in Bismarck, N.D., the David D. Miller Surgery Center. The change follows a $3 million donation from Mr. Miller, a longtime nurse anesthetist, NBC affiliate KFYR-TV reported…
Urology has been a steady source of ASC news this year, as private equity firms and MSOs continue to build scale in the specialty and operators see room for more surgical volume to move into ASCs. Here are five notes…