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Date Posted: April 9, 2018

Teche Regional Medical Center today announced that Aphreikah DuHaney-West, FACHE, CPPS, has been named chief executive officer (CEO) of the hospital, effective immediately. She has served as interim CEO since December 2017.

Date Posted: April 3, 2018

Castleview Hospital has been named a Duke LifePoint Quality Affiliate, earning recognition for its achievements in patient and family engagement, quality care and patient safety.

Date Posted: March 1, 2018

Georgetown Community Hospital today announced that it has been named a Duke LifePoint Quality Affiliate. This designation recognizes hospitals within the LifePoint Health system that have enrolled in the LifePoint National Quality Program and succeeded in transforming their culture of safety and achieving high standards of quality care, performance improvement and patient engagement.

Date Posted: February 23, 2018

Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital today announced that Steven Simpson has been named its chief executive officer, effective April 2. Simpson will replace Rick Palagi, who is retiring after four years of service, effective March 2.

Date Posted: February 19, 2018

Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Winchester-Sewanee (STRHS Winchester-Sewanee) today announced that William R. (Russ) Spray has been named chief executive officer (CEO), a role he previously held from 1999 to 2008. He has served as the hospital's interim CEO since November 2017.

Date Posted: February 9, 2018

UP Health System-Marquette CEO Brian Sinotte adds regional leadership role, assumes oversight of Hancock and Ishpeming facilities and associated services.

Date Posted: December 14, 2017

Southern Tennessee Regional Health System-Pulaski (STRHS-Pulaski) today announced that it has been named a Duke LifePoint Quality Affiliate. This designation recognizes hospitals within the LifePoint Health system that have enrolled in the LifePoint National Quality Program and succeeded in transforming their culture of safety and achieving high standards of quality care, performance improvement and patient engagement.

Date Posted: December 13, 2017

LifePoint hospital CEOs Bert Beard (Maria Parham Health), William Haugh (Georgetown Community Hospital) and Rebecca Segal (Rutherford Regional Health System) have been named to the Becker's Hospital Review list of Rising Stars in healthcare.

Date Posted: December 13, 2017

Two reports released last week show the financial strength of Conemaugh Health System and its parent company, Duke LifePoint Healthcare. Leaders say the local health system's strong performance and additional resources provided by the national organization demonstrate the community benefits gained through the sale of the former nonprofit hospitals in 2014.

Date Posted: December 13, 2017

Danville Regional Medical Center and Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County today announced that they are expanding their collaboration, forming SOVAH Health, a new regional medical center with two campuses – one in Danville and one in Martinsville. Together as SOVAH Health, the hospitals Danville Regional and Memorial Hospital will have new opportunities to more proactively and effectively respond to the healthcare needs of the region.

Date Posted: December 13, 2017

A group of medical staff from Raleigh General Hospital returns to West Virginia after a trip to Africa to change their healthcare system for the better. Dr. Herbert Oye, a surgeon at Raleigh General Hospital, along with other medical staff recently took a trip to Bayelsa, which is a state in Nigeria. On their trip, they volunteered their time to help the sick. They also educated doctors and nurses in that area.

Date Posted: December 13, 2017

The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at Palestine Regional Medical Center has been recognized with a national award for continued excellence in wound healing. Leaders, physicians and clinicians from the Wound Care Center celebrated the Center's receipt of the Robert A. Warriner III Center of Excellence award. The Center of Excellence award is given to Wound Care Centers® in the Healogics network meeting the highest level of quality standards for at lesat two consecutive years.

Date Posted: December 13, 2017

The oldest organization in the nation dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke has recognized Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center for getting patients suffering with those afflictions the treatment they need faster than ever before. The medical center received a list of awards from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for meeting strict benchmarks – in one case over a two-year period – to quickly provide the highest quality of care in the minutes after a patient is brought through the hospital’s doors.

Date Posted: December 13, 2017

After several years of negotiating the future location of Beacon House’s new facilities, U.P. Health System CEO Brian Sinotte announced last week a deal between the two parties that places Beacon House directly on the campus of UPHS’ new property.

Date Posted: December 13, 2017

Nineteen recent nursing graduates from Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College were recently selected to participate in a new program at Logan Regional Medical Center. Chief Nursing Officer Sandra Hugueley said the program will help make the transition from school to practicing nursing in a real-world setting easier for students.

Date Posted: December 13, 2017

Sylva’s Harris Regional Hospital is about to open its new emergency department. It will treat patients in 15 private rooms, three times the number in its current emergency room.

Date Posted: December 13, 2017

Minden Medical Center, a LifePoint Health facility in Minden, Louisiana, was the only hospital in Louisiana to make the Leapfrog Group's recent list of straight-A hospitals. The Leapfrog Group assigns patient safety performance letter grades to hospitals twice annually. Minden Medical Center is one of only 59 hospitals, and the only hospital in Louisiana, to earn an A in every update since Leapfrog scoring began in spring 2012.

Date Posted: December 13, 2017

Two new psychiatrists at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center will help boost the behavioral health program, which took a hit last year with the departure of several physicians.

Date Posted: November 28, 2017

Colorado Plains Medical Center (CPMC) today announced that it has been named a Duke LifePoint Quality Affiliate. This designation recognizes hospitals within the LifePoint Health system that have enrolled in the LifePoint National Quality Program and succeeded in transforming their culture of safety and achieving high standards of quality care, performance improvement and patient engagement.

Date Posted: November 17, 2017

Responding to needs of the area's significant elderly population, Watertown Regional Medical Center announced Thursday it will be constructing a senior behavioral health unit on the hospital's third floor. WRMC CEO Richard Keddington said the new wing, which is set to open in fall of 2018, is designed for short inpatient stays of people 65 years and older.