Author: Patsy Newitt

A recent survey found that while 70 percent of Americans trust their physicians, only 22 percent trust hospital executives. 

Jersey City (N.J.) Medical Center, a RWJBarnabas Health facility, launched a gastroenterology fellowship through a partnership with Rutgers Health, according to the Hudson Reporter.

Surgery Center South and Flowers Hospital, both in Dothan, Ala., are teaming up to provide monoclonal antibody infusion therapy to COVID-19 patients, Dothan Eagle reported Aug. 24. 

Addison, Texas-based United Surgical Partners International is hiring at least 16 administrators nationally. 

Twenty-one percent of surveyed hospitals think telehealth is routinely leveraged in gastroenterology, according to a survey from management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. 

Here's who leads the five largest health insurers by membership, according to a May 2021 ValuePenguin report.

Ophthalmology has seen one of the highest drops in outpatient volume from June 2019 to 2021, according to a survey from management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. 

Rochester, N.Y.-based Cornerstone Eye Associates held a grand opening for a new ASC on Aug. 24.

Pfizer's fully FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine will now be marketed as Comirnaty for people ages 16 and older. The shot is still available under emergency use authorization for people ages 12 and up. 

New York City-based NYU Langone Health named Aasma Shaukat, MD, as director of outcomes research in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology, the system said Aug. 23.