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New Orleans healthcare professionals will be able to pick up shifts at LCMC Health facilities through ShiftMed's W2 workforce platform MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ShiftMed, the leader in on-demand workforce technology, has announced its partnership with LCMC Health, a prominent healthcare provider in New Orleans. ShiftMed's integrated platform will be a first-of-its-kind option available to Louisiana nurses working in acute care, enabling them to access a wide array of flexible work opportunities and pick up shifts that align with where and when they want to work. Following the pandemic, Louisiana healthcare facilities and health systems have faced significant nursing shortages. According to a report from the Louisiana Health Works Commission and Nursing Supply and Demand Council, the state is facing a shortage of 6,000 registered nurses by 2030 – a 40% decrease in available workforce. In response to this ongoing crisis, LCMC Health has implemented a range of strategic initiatives aimed at tackling staffing gaps to create sustainable, long-term healthcare solutions including the development of a healthcare profession pipeline program with 12 regional academic partners. Its partnership with ShiftMed is anticipated to improve the staffing ratios at two of its facilities. This collaboration will assist LCMC Health facilities in filling open shifts quickly and efficiently. ShiftMed will serve as LCMC Health's exclusive on-demand partner, offering a range of incentives to local nurses that extend beyond traditional compensation, including Instant Pay™, Guaranteed Shifts™, and seamless integration with Uber Health. ShiftMed's approach to workforce not only empowers healthcare professionals with additional benefits but plays a critical role in giving nurses greater control over their schedules. "ShiftMed is dedicated to empowering healthcare professionals and changing the way they work," said Todd Walrath, CEO of ShiftMed. "Our partnership with LCMC Health marks a significant milestone in providing flexible and innovative workforce technology to Louisiana-based nurses in a way that benefits both providers, healthcare facilities, and ultimately patients." "At LCMC Health, we are committed to delivering the highest quality of care, and we are confident that this partnership with ShiftMed will enable our hospitals to operate even more efficiently and smoothly while creating workplace solutions for our nurses," said Allison Guste, Corporate Vice President, Nursing and Clinical Services at LCMC Health and Interim Chief Nursing Officer at University Medical Center New Orleans. "This collaboration represents a strategic move towards patient care, ensuring our facilities are optimally staffed so we can continue providing our patients with the extraordinary care they deserve." To learn more about how ShiftMed is providing workforce solutions to health systems, please visit . About ShiftMed ShiftMed is a next-generation workforce management platform that connects hospitals and skilled nursing facilities to the highest quantity and quality of allied healthcare professionals (CNAs, LPNs, RNs, PTs, and Community Health Workers). As the #1 nursing jobs mobile app on the App Store, ShiftMed serves more than 2,000 enterprise healthcare partners in 110 markets across the country by offering software tools and direct access to labor for shift scheduling. As featured on the TODAY show, ShiftMed's on-demand platform dramatically streamlines the delivery of care services and supplies healthcare providers with compliant, credentialed workers to fulfill their staffing needs faster than any other solution. For more information, visit . About LCMC Health Established in 2009, LCMC Health is a Louisiana-based, not-for-profit hospital system serving the healthcare needs of the Gulf Coast region. LCMC Health currently manages Children's Hospital New Orleans, East Jefferson General Hospital, Lakeside Hospital, Lakeview Hospital, New Orleans East Hospital, Touro, Tulane Medical Center, University Medical Center New Orleans, and West Jefferson Medical Center. SOURCE ShiftMed

MIAMI SHORES, Fla., Sept. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Prominently featured in The Inner Circle, Dr. Nirat Beohar is acknowledged as a Pinnacle Life Member for his contributions to the fields of Interventional Cardiology and Medical Education. Continue Reading Nirat Beohar, MD, FACC, FSCAI Dr. Beohar pursued higher education at the Maulana Azad Medical College in 1990 where he earned a Medical Degree. He relocated to the United States and attended Baylor College of Medicine where he completed a residency in Internal Medicine in 1994 and was a visiting fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He then attended George Washington University where he finished his fellowship in cardiovascular disease in 1998 and concluded a second fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the Feinberg Medical School in 1999. The doctor holds multiple board certifications from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in Cardiovascular Disease; Interventional Cardiology; Nuclear Cardiology; CT Angiography; and Internal Medicine and notes that ABIM is a physician-led non-profit independent evaluation organization driven by doctors who want to achieve higher standards for better care in a rapidly changing world. He explained that cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with the disorders of the heart, as well as some parts of the circulatory system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease, and electrophysiology. He notes that cardiologists are doctors who diagnose, assess, and treat patients with diseases and defects of the heart and blood vessels (the cardiovascular system). A Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), Dr. Beohar asserts that he has devoted his career to the use and development of catheter-based therapies for the treatment of heart disease. He currently serves in many leadership positions including Vice Chief of the Columbia University Division of Cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center; Director of the hospital's Cardiac Catheterization Lab; Medical Director of the hospital's Structural Heart Disease Program; Director of the hospital's Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program; and a Professor at Columbia University Medical Center. The doctor is an expert in many specialties including implanting catheter-delivered heart aortic valves; treating complex coronary conditions, such as left main and multi-vessel disease as well as chronic total occlusions; and devices to close atrial septal defects; PFOs; and other intracardiac shunts. Dr. Beohar implants left ventricular assist devices such as the Tandem heart and Impella for patients in cardiogenic shock and is skilled in transseptal catheterization, a highly specialized technique used to access the left side of the heart to treat structural heart disease. He has also had experience with percutaneous therapies for peripheral vascular disease. Prior to his current posts, Dr. Beohar worked at Mount Sinai-Columbia; was an interventional cardiologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago; an Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine; and the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the Veterans Administration Lakeside Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Beohar's illustrious career has been punctuated by many awards and honors including the Top Doctor Award by Coral Gables Magazine in 2019. He is also highly sought after for his lectures to fellows and also assists with medical education in India. He would like to dedicate this honor in loving memory of his parents, Prakash C. and Sushma Beohar, and his mentors, Robert Bonow, MD, and Charles J. Davidson, MD. Contact: Katherine Green 516-825-5634 [email protected] SOURCE The Inner Circle

Facilities in Washington, Nebraska and Tennessee were reportedly breached in an ongoing cyberattack against CommonSpirit Health System. Certain IT systems are offline, including EHRs and patient appointments have been rescheduled. (Getty Images) CommonSpirit Health is managing an IT security incident affecting some of its facilities in multiple regions, the company said in a statement to Fierce Healthcare. The number of facilities affected is still undisclosed as is the security of patient data following the incident which reportedly began Monday. “As a result of this incident, we have rescheduled some patient appointments in some of our communities,” CommonSpirit’s statement said. “Patients will be contacted directly by their provider and/or care facility if their appointment is impacted.” The Chicago-based health system is one of the largest in the country, operating 142 hospitals and over 2,200 sites of care within 21 states. “As a precautionary step we have taken certain IT systems offline, which in some of our divisions includes electronic health record systems and other systems,” the statement said. “Our facilities are following existing protocols for system outages and taking steps to minimize the disruption.” CommonSpirit’s Nebraska-based subsidiary CHI Health has reported outages in all of its Omaha hospitals—Lakeside Hospital, Creighton University Medical Center, Bergan Mercy and Immanuel Medical Center. Two CHI Health hospitals in Chattanooga, Tennessee, moved some systems offline including electronic health records, according to a statement from CHI Memorial. The Seattle-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health has also reported being impacted by the outage. VMFH operates hospitals and clinics in the Puget Sound region, including St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma. Patients were reportedly unable to access the online patient portal, MyChart. “We take our responsibility to ensure the privacy of our patients and IT security very seriously,” the statement said.   CommonSpirit is one of many notable nonprofit health systems reporting significant losses for the most recent fiscal year. The health system, which was formed in a 2019 merger of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health, reported $1.85 billion in losses in 2022. The Catholic organization recently appointed Wright Lassiter, formerly of Henry Ford Health, as its new CEO and successor to Lloyd Dean.