Methodist Hospital System news and information

The ongoing national drug shortage has reached such a critical state that the FTC has given a city-owned ambulance service permission to buy discounted pharmaceuticals from a local hospital as an “emergency humanitarian gesture,” even though such sales might potentially violate...
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RICHARDSON, Texas—Dallas-based Methodist Health System broke ground Sept. 27 on Methodist Richardson Medical Center-Bush/Renner, a $120 million outpatient hospital in Richardson. The new facility will be an expansion of the health system's existing 147-bed acute-care hospital,...
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A transplant patient at Methodist Dallas Medical Center was mistakenly given a kidney, last week, though that patient was not next in line, the hospital says. As result, Methodist confirms, it has voluntarily suspended its kidney and pancreas donation program.
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For-profit LHC Group, Lafayette, La., has formed a home health company with two Texas not-for-profit health systems, 14-hospital Texas Health Resources, Arlington, and five-hospital Methodist Health System, Dallas, to offer home health services in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
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As healthcare executives gathered in Chicago for the American College of Healthcare Executives' annual Congress on Healthcare Leadership, three executives for large systems announced career changes.
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Ron Girotto, president and CEO of the Methodist Hospital System, Houston, announced he would retire effective at the end of this year.
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BayCare Health System has named Tim Thompson chief information officer. Thompson succeeds Lindsey Jarrell, who left the Clearwater, Fla.-based system last December to start a health information technology consulting firm.
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