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LifePoint Health Information Security and Compliance Collaboration Featured in Compliance Week
March 05, 2021LifePoint Health Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Andy Heins and Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer Ellen Hunt recently spoke with Compliance Week about the key role that collaboration between compliance and information security plays in protecting company data from cyber security threats.
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Conemaugh Health System Preparing to Move Forward with Expansion Projects
March 04, 2021With an eye on the future, Conemaugh Health System is preparing to move ahead with several large expansions, including a new five-story building on Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center's main campus that will be home to the hospital's cardiology services.
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Watertown Regional Medical Center to Build New Rehab and Sports Medicine Clinic
March 03, 2021Watertown Regional Medical Center is constructing a new rehab and sports medicine clinic which will bring these services together in one place and near related orthopedic services to create a more convenient and comprehensive patient experience for the Watertown, Wisconsin community.
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North Alabama Medical Center Opens COVID-19 Drive-Thru Vaccine Clinic
February 25, 2021North Alabama Medical Center, in Florence, Alabama, recently opened a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine clinic and has been vaccinating teachers from Florence and the surrounding region.
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Six LifePoint Hospitals Named to Newsweek Best Maternity Hospitals List
February 24, 2021Six hospitals in the LifePoint Health network have been named to Newsweek's 2021 Best Maternity Hospitals list: Central Carolina Hospital, Community Medical Center, Harris Regional Hospital, Havasu Regional Medical Center, STRHS-Lawrenceburg and Sumner Regional Medical Center.
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Carolina Pines Teaming with SC DHEC for Rural COVID-19 Vaccine Administration
February 24, 2021Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, in Hartsville, South Carolina, is teaming up with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control to ensure that underserved residents of rural communities have access to life-saving COVID-19 vaccines.
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Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital Opens Renovated Cath Lab
February 23, 2021Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital recently opened its newly renovated cardiac catheterization lab, which features both structural and technological upgrades that will enhance heart care for patients and play a role in Making Communities Healthier in Somerset, Kentucky and the surrounding area.
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Fauquier Health Becoming Regional Leader in Robotic Surgery
February 22, 2021Fauquier Health, in Warrenton, Virginia, has become a regional leader in robotic surgery, with its ability to provide minimally invasive spinal procedures for the communities it serves.
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LifePoint Health Joins Other Healthcare Organizations for Capitol Hill Vaccine Briefing
February 16, 2021Last week, Dr. Christopher Rehm, chief medical officer for LifePoint Health, joined Michael Slubowski, president and CEO of Trinity Health and Dr. Joe Cacchione, executive vice president of clinical and network services for Ascension, in a virtual American Hospital Association COVID-19 vaccine briefing for Congressional lawmakers and staff on Capitol Hill.
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Trios Health to Build New $22 Million Birthing Center
February 12, 2021A new $22 million birthing center coming to Trios Health in 2022 is set to expand access to care for moms and babies in the Kennewick, Washington community.
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Haywood Regional Recognized for Key Role in Community Vaccine Rollout
February 11, 2021Haywood Regional Medical Center was featured in a recent story out of Haywood County, North Carolina for the key role it is playing in coordinated vaccine administration in the local community.
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LifePoint Health Expands Compliance with New Leadership Positions
February 09, 2021LifePoint Health®, a leading healthcare company dedicated to Making Communities Healthier®, today announced the appointments of Ellen M. Hunt, JD and Michelle Rigby, CFE, CHC, to newly created leadership roles in the organization’s Ethics and Compliance Department.
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Minimally Invasive Procedure Expands Access to Cutting Edge Heart Care for Lake Havasu City
February 08, 2021At Havasu Regional Medical Center, minimally invasive aortic valve replacements are expanding access to cutting edge heart care with quicker recovery times for community residents in Lake Havasu City. In the process, the hospital has become a cardiology leader in the state.
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Simon Ratliff Named CEO of Raleigh General Hospital
January 27, 2021Beckley, West Virginia – (January 26, 2021) – Raleigh General Hospital (RGH) today announced that Simon Ratliff has been named chief executive officer (CEO), effective February 22. Ratliff has served as CEO of Logan Regional Medical Center, a LifePoint facility in Logan, West Virginia, for the past two years.
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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Celebrates Opening of New $4.6 Million Cardiac Cath Lab at Clark Regional Medical Center
January 25, 2021Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC), along with representatives from the UK Gill Heart & Vascular Institute Affiliate Network, and distinguished members of the community, celebrated the opening of a new $4.6 million cardiac catheterization (cath) lab. The cath lab paves the way for an interventional cardiology program at CRMC, providing greater access to life-saving heart care in Clark County.
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LifePoint Health Names Elmer Polite Eastern Division Chief Financial Officer
January 11, 2021Brentwood, TN (January 11, 2021) – LifePoint Health, a leading healthcare company dedicated to Making Communities Healthier, today announced that Elmer Polite has been named chief financial officer of its Eastern Division of hospitals. In this role, Polite will oversee financial operations for 26 hospital campuses located in Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
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David Steitz Named Chief Executive Officer of Bluegrass Community Hospital
January 05, 2021Versailles, KY (January 5, 2021) – Bluegrass Community Hospital today announced that David Steitz has been named its new chief executive officer (CEO). Steitz, a healthcare veteran with more than three decades of hospital leadership experience, begins his new role January 11, 2021.
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LifePoint Health Receives 2020-2021 Golisano Health Leadership Award from Special Olympics Tennessee
December 16, 2020Nashville, Tenn. – December 15, 2020 – Special Olympics Tennessee is honored to announce the selection of LifePoint Health, Bill Wilkerson Center, and Tennessee Association of Optometric Physicians as Tennessee’s 2020-2021 Golisano Health Leadership Award honorees.
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Thousands of Top U.S. Hospitals Encourage Everyone to #MaskUp
November 19, 2020LifePoint Health Joins Top U.S. Hospitals to Encourage Everyone to #MaskUp 100 of the nation’s top health care systems, representing thousands of hospitals in communities across the U.S., have come together with an urgent plea for all Americans – mask up, because wearing a facemask is our best chance at slowing the surging COVID-19 pandemic now.
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Conemaugh Nason Medical Center Named LifePoint Health National Quality Leader
November 17, 2020ROARING SPRING, PA (November 17, 2020) – Conemaugh Nason Medical Center today announced that it has been named a LifePoint Health National Quality Leader. 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.
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