Healthcare

Philadelphia – October 01, 2026 -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has officially installed Joseph Mitchell, MD, as President and Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Madeline Bell after her nearly four-decade tenure and 11 years as CEO.

Mitchell completes an 18-month transition after joining CHOP as President in April 2025

Mitchell spent the past year and a half working alongside CHOP leadership, clinicians, researchers and community partners ahead of taking full control of the nation's first children's hospital, an institution founded more than 170 years ago.

Pensacola, Fla. – October 01, 2026 -- Baptist Health Care and PAM Health have restructured their joint venture, adding 40 acute care beds at Baptist Hospital and building a freestanding 60-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital at Baptist Medical Park – Nine Mile, pushing Baptist Hospital's total bed count from 279 to 319.

Revised plan scraps original 40-bed rehab unit for larger freestanding facility

The updated agreement replaces a plan first announced in early 2025, which called for a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital housed within the Henderson Health Center on the Baptist Hospital campus. Under the new structure, PAM Health and Baptist Health Care will instead construct a standalone 60-bed rehabilitation hospital at the Nine Mile campus, freeing the Henderson Health Center space for conversion into a 40-bed acute care unit.

Boston – September 30, 2026 -- Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE: HAE) will publish its second quarter fiscal year 2027 financial results at 6:00 am ET on Thursday, November 5, 2026.

Haemonetics sets investor call for 8:00 am ET on November 5

The medical technology company will hold a conference call with investors and analysts two hours after the earnings release to discuss results and answer questions. Participants can access the call via teleconference after completing registration, which provides a dial-in number and personalized PIN.

Live webcast replay to remain available for one year

A live webcast of the call will be accessible on Haemonetics' investor relations website. The company will maintain a replay of the conference call and webcast for one year beginning November 5, 2026 at 11:00 am ET, using the same webcast link.

Versailles, Ohio – September 30, 2026 -- Midmark RTLS has added its CareFlow RTLS Staff Duress solution to the Epic Toolbox in the Staff Duress category for 2026, integrating real-time, location-aware caregiver duress alerts directly into Epic's electronic health record system.

Badge-based alerts feed directly into Epic's push notification framework

CareFlow Staff Duress connects to Epic using HL7 FHIR-based APIs, allowing Midmark RTLS badges already worn by caregivers to trigger duress alerts with a discreet button press. When activated, Epic receives the staff member's identity and real-time location and notifies designated security and informational response groups through its push notification system. Responders can acknowledge or decline alerts within Epic itself, keeping emergency coordination inside existing clinical software.

Seattle – September 30, 2026 -- Washington Permanente Medical Group (WPMG) has named Taejoon Ahn, MD, MPH, as its new CEO and executive medical director, placing him at the head of an organization that oversees more than 1,200 clinicians serving over 550,000 Kaiser Permanente members across Washington state.

Ahn succeeds interim leader Dorian Reid, who held the role since September 2025

Dr. Ahn takes over an independent, physician-owned medical group that works exclusively with Kaiser Permanente to deliver care in the region. The leadership transition closes a one-year interim period under Dorian Reid, MD.

Boston – September 30, 2026 -- Boston Globe Media and Tufts Health Plan have renewed their branded content partnership for a sixth season of "Turning Points: Navigating Mental Health," a five-episode podcast series debuting new installments every Wednesday starting October 7, 2026.

Studio/B produces the series as branded content separate from newsroom operations

The podcast is created by Boston Globe Media's branded content division, Studio/B, in collaboration with Tufts Health Plan, a Point32Health company. The Boston Globe's news and editorial departments have no role in the production, the companies confirmed.

Season six tackles parenting, loss and news-cycle anxiety

The new season addresses parenting in the age of social media, starting over after loss, and managing mental health amid a constant news cycle. Clinical social worker Frantzes Lys returns as host, interviewing guests about personal mental health turning points.

Pleasanton, Calif. – – September 30, 2026 -- Healthcare Triangle, Inc. (Nasdaq: HCTI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Malaysia's AI World Sdn. Bhd. to form a joint venture deploying AI-enabled humanoid nursing robots across North American hospitals, with HCTI taking a 70% ownership stake against AI World's 30%.

Joint venture targets toileting and hygiene care, among the most physically demanding nursing tasks

The proposed venture would hold intellectual property and distribution rights for the robots in North America. The machines are designed to assist with patient toileting and related cleaning and hygiene work under clinical supervision, tasks HCTI says are both physically taxing for staff and sensitive for patients.

Dallas – September 30, 2026 -- LateralCare has made its flagship revenue cycle management platform, revenue alai, available on Microsoft Marketplace, giving healthcare organizations worldwide direct access to deploy the Agentic AI solution within existing Azure environments.

Microsoft Marketplace listing enables direct deployment within Azure ecosystems

Customers can now discover and deploy revenue alai through Microsoft Marketplace, the unified platform for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents. The listing allows streamlined management and integration across Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft products, reducing procurement friction for healthcare systems already operating on Microsoft infrastructure.

Frisco, Texas – September 30, 2026 -- Thirty-one percent of healthcare organizations experienced unauthorized identities accessing sensitive data in the past year, compared with 24% across other industries, according to new healthcare findings from Netwrix's 2026 Data and Identity Security Report. Among healthcare organizations that suffered an incident, 33% reported costs exceeding $250,000, versus 21% in other sectors.

Healthcare ranks last among 16 industries on Active Directory confidence

Only 14% of healthcare organizations said they are fully confident their Active Directory environments are free of privilege escalation risks, compared with 26% across all industries surveyed. Eighty-six percent lack full confidence in their AD security, the lowest ranking among the 16 industries with sufficient survey representation for comparison.

Hollywood, Fla. – September 30, 2026 -- Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Foundation has secured a $230,000 grant from Simply Healthcare Foundation to expand New Solutions, a pediatric mental health treatment and suicide prevention program, over the next three years.

Grant funds care for 267 individuals over three years

The three-year grant began July 1 and will allow New Solutions to serve 267 individuals, targeting the gap between emergency psychiatric treatment and community-based behavioral health care. The program addresses children and adolescents who arrive at the emergency department in crisis but do not meet medical criteria for hospital admission or an involuntary examination under Florida's Baker Act.