Heather Levites, MD, took what she calls “a long road” to plastic surgery. It ran through MIT, Citi Smith Barney and Duke University before landing her in Raleigh, N.C., where she now runs Levity Lifts, a cash-pay cosmetic surgery practice…
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As health systems face mounting pressure to expand beyond hospital walls, Lawrence Antonucci, MD, president and CEO of Fort Meyer, Fla.-based Lee Health is betting the future belongs to health systems that build connected, community-based care ecosystems. In a conversation…
Wise, Va.-based The Health Wagon’s president and CEO, Teresa Tyson, DNP, has been named Rural Health Practitioner of the Year by the National Rural Health Association, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. Dr. Tyson, a family nurse practitioner…
While burnout has become a common phrase in healthcare, clinicians are increasingly using “moral injury” to describe the day-to-day challenges of working in healthcare. “I think it’s on the continuum,” Michael Anderson, MD, a pediatrician and co-executive director of WittKiefer’s…
A commentary published in in the New England Journal of Medicine argues most hospital programs screening older physicians for cognitive and physical decline skip the safeguards that would make them fair — and lays out how to fix that. Here…
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In January 2024, Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital in St. Louis, a 60-bed children’s rehabilitation hospital, began hiring patient play advocates to incorporate play into children’s recovery. By November 2024, Ranken had launched a research department to study the incorporation…
From advancements in specialty care to developments in AI, healthcare is moving toward a future where patient care is more personalized, precise and interdisciplinary. These advancements have also pushed healthcare outside the four walls of traditional brick-and-mortar settings, creating new…
Delaware Governor Matt Meyer has appointed Neil Hockstein, MD, as the state’s first surgeon general, making Delaware the seventh state in the nation to establish a state-level surgeon general, local radio station WGMD reported July 13. Mr. Meyer signed an…
For most of the past decade, health systems have treated a bigger salary offer as the best way to win a physician search, but new survey data suggests that approach is running into a ceiling physicians themselves are setting. CHG…
Lisa Nee, MD, an interventional cardiologist whose campaign describes her as a whistleblower over patient care failures at a veterans hospital, has entered the 2027 Chicago mayoral race, NBC 5 reported July 7. Dr. Nee began her career as a…