OneOncology incorporated yet another community oncology provider, Los Angeles Cancer Network (LACN), into its growing network nationwide. This private equity-based group is developing an important model. OneOncology, on the one hand, seeks to embrace the realities of...
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New York-Presbyterian Hospital Scrambles for Funding due to COVID-19
A major research hub in New York City, New York-Presbyterian represents one of the most comprehensive, integrated academic health care delivery systems not only in the New York metro areas but also the nation. By collaborating tightly with Weill Cornell Medicine and...
San Mateo County Health System $57m Shortfall will Face Severe Cuts Impacting Care
The San Mateo County Health System will need to make drastic cuts to services, which will impact patients in this generally affluent community in the San Francisco Bay Area—in the heart of Silicon Valley. The system will propose cuts to overcome a $57 million...
Back to the Future: Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences Doing Exciting Things in Flint, MI
Neurosurgeon Jawad Shah arrived in the economically depressed city of Flint, MI, nearly two decades ago after advanced brain stem surgical training at the University of Arkansas Hospital. He developed a thriving practice and by 2008, purchased an old General Motors...
Univ. of Alabama Birmingham-led Study Reveals Cancer Clinic Closings Linked to Greater Health Care Spending
If a recent study led by University of Alabama at Birmingham is correct, with greater Medicare spending and patient cost responsibilities, we will see more cancer clinic closings and hence increased patient travel time for basic oncologic care. With results published...
Geisinger Health System’s MyCode Personalized Medicine Program Enrolls Over 250K Patients
Geisinger Health System reports its precision medicine project has enrolled over 250,000 participants and produced already medically actionable results to nearly 1,500 health system members. The MyCode study is an ambitious program from a leading integrated health...
Prominent Neurosurgeon & Clinical Investigator Appointed CEO to Henry Ford Medical Group
Ford Health System has named world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Steven Kalkanis as Chief Executive Officer of the Henry Ford Medical Group. Dr. Kalkanis will provide strategic leadership and direction to over a 1,900-member group of physicians and researchers, including...
Clinical Research as Care Option Expands as Javara Inks Partnership with Privia Health
Integrated clinical trials platform Javara, offering clinical research as a care option to physician networks and health systems, inked a deal with PriviaHealth recently so that the latter can offer industry-sponsored clinical trials to their Privia Medical Group—Gulf...
Baystate Health Launches Partnership with Life Image to Develop AI to support Clinical Trials
Baystate Health launched a program to develop artificial intelligence tools to help physicians identify potential patient matches to oncology clinical trials via the health system’s innovation arm called TechSpring. Additionally, they will seek to employ AI to improve...
HCA Healthcare: America’s Largest Health System & Clinical Trials
HCA Healthcare (HCA) is America’s largest health system as measured by net patient revenue of nearly $50 billion. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, they manage 185 hospitals and 119 freestanding surgery centers, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent...
Kings County Cancer Care Center Achieves CoC Accreditation Offering NYC Patients Potential Access to State-of-the-Art Clinical Trials
Kings County Hospital has received a nationally recognized accreditation from the Commission on Cancer (CoC) for its Cancer Care Center, the Flatbush (New York) hospital. The hospital is part of the NYC Health + Hospitals organization. Through the CoC accreditation...
The American Oncology Network: Driving Community Oncology
The American Oncology Network (AON) recently named Dr. Vipul Patel and Dr. Craig Roberts to its Board. AON is an alliance of physicians and seasoned healthcare leaders partnering to ensure the long-term success of community oncology. Founded in 2017, rapidly growing...
Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital CEO Ronnie Gamzu: Accelerate the Digital and AI Initiatives
Ronnie Gamzu, CEO of Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, recently touted the benefits of digital and AI moving forward at hospitals and health care institutions. The savvy CEO noted that doctors on their own aren’t capable of continuously producing accurate prognosis to each...
GE Technology Powers new AI-Powered Clinical Command Center at AdventHealth
AdventHealth, a faith-based, non-profit health care system in Florida operates facilities within nine states across America. The largest Protestant-based health care provider has over 45 hospital campuses and more than 8,200 licensed beds serving more than 5 million...
Pharos Capital Group-backed Verdi Oncology Expands into Dallas with Community Care and Research Options
A private equity-backed oncology practice and clinical research management company called Verdi Oncology, Inc. has recently launched end-to-end cancer care and research center called the Verdi Cancer and Research Center of Texas. Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth region,...
Top Hospitals (Providers) in the United States
US News & World Report recently published its annual Best Hospitals Honor Roll 2019. TrialSite News includes the top 20 below as well as a link to the website. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Johns Hopkins Hospital,...
Ruijin Hospital China Partners with Other Hospitals & Clinics for City’s first Rehabilitation Provider Network
Ruijin Hospital teamed up with another three hospitals and two neighborhood health centers to set up the city’s first provider network for rehabilitation services. China experiences great shortages for rehabilitation services so creative collaborative approaches such...
Hahnemann University Hospital Faces Ongoing Financial Crisis and Plans to Close
Hahnemann University Hospital, a 496-bed academic medical center in Philadelphia, will close amid financial crisis. Partnered with Drexel, it has served as a teaching hospital. The hospital, in critical central city Philadelphia, was a health access nexus and clinical...
Tennessee Providers & Payer Foundation Expand SUD Services in Eastern TN
Helen Ross McNabb Centers, The University of Tennessee Medical Center and the United Health Foundation have inked a partnership to expand access to care providers and behavioral health services throughout East Tennessee. Highlights: $1 million grant...
Las Vegas Hospital Chain Receives its First Crop of Medical Residents
Las Vegas is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, and their medical (including clinical research) infrastructure continues to expand with new health facilities and health professionals. Just this last Friday, Valley Health System welcomed its first...