Author: Claire Wallace

Cumberland-based UPMC Western Maryland has expanded access to gastroenterology for patients through the addition of two new providers, according to an Oct. 29 report from the Cumberland Times-News.

Charleston, S.C.-based MUSC Health has broken ground on an 80,000-square-foot medical office building, the Clements Ferry Pavilion. 

AMN Healthcare's 2024 "Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives," report named nurse practitioners as the most in-demand medical professionals of 2023 and 2024.

While patients have new screening options for colorectal cancer, including stool and blood-based tests, studies have warned that blood tests are not as effective at detecting and preventing colon cancer. 

Nurse practitioners and certified registered nurse anesthetists are among the top-recruited workers in healthcare today. 

Nurse practitioner was named the most recruited medical position in 2024, and those providers earn an average of $164,000 a year across all practice settings, according to AMN Healthcare's 2024 "Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives" report.

Several key health systems with a large presence in the outpatient care setting have partnered with Big Tech companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, to enhance artificial intelligence and clinical documentation initiatives in the last month. 

The Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System has appointed Marc Pelletier, MD, as division chief of cardiac surgery for the department of surgery, section chief of cardiac surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital and physician-in-chief…

First Coast Cardiovascular Institute in Jacksonville, Fla., has received approval to build a new ASC, according to an Oct. 28 report from the Jacksonville Business Journal. 

Outpatient real estate firm Flagship Healthcare Properties has acquired the Central Ohio Surgical Institute in New Albany.