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Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Reopened Sharon Regional Medical Center draws patients, rehires staff amid transformation plans
Sharon Regional Medical Center's reopening had already, by around noontime, led to the first dozen or so patients through the emergency department and its first admitted patient. Bryan Burklow, a longtime hospital CEO who is new owner Tenor Health's chief transformation officer, said the hospital reopened with one 12-bed medical-surgical unit, one intensive care unit and all 20 behavioral health beds. More of the beds at the formerly 141-bed hospital will reopen in the future. 'We anticipate that by the beginning of April we'll open up our surgery department and we would anticipate that shortly thereafter we will be able to resume cardiac catheterizations,' Burklow told the Business Times. 'At that point we'd be pretty much full service.' Sharon Regional Medical Center, caught up in the Steward Health System bankruptcy that began last year, closed Jan. 5 despite efforts to keep it open. Tenor, a California-based hospital management company, has been working since before then to revive Sharon Regional Medical Center and got the Pennsylvania Department of Health's permission on Friday to reopen. Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
NIH set to replace chief of staff with former Massie aide
The Trump administration plans to replace the National Institutes of Health's longtime chief of staff with a political appointee, in a striking move likely to tighten its control over the public health agency. John Burklow, a nearly 40-year veteran of the NIH, is being removed from his role, according to three people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity because the decision is not yet public. The agency is expected to instead appoint Seana Cranston as the NIH's new chief of staff, two of the people said, though they cautioned it is not final and could still change. Cranston is a former deputy chief of staff to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who also spent several years as the lawmaker's legislative director. Massie is known for opposing spending bills and this week was the only House Republican to vote no on legislation to avert a government shutdown. An NIH spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. The move would represent a sharp departure from the NIH's longtime practice of appointing career officials as chief of staff to the agency's director. Burklow, who has held the role since 2021, previously spent 20 years as a senior communications official at NIH — a tenure that spanned both Republican and Democratic administrations. 'You feel like you're helping to advance the mission of NIH and that's what's kept me here for 38 years,' Burklow said in a November 2024 interview with the NIH's in-house newsletter for a story on his tenure that dubbed him "The Methuselah of Bldg. 1," in reference to the main administrative building on the agency's campus. Trump health officials have signaled plans to drastically overhaul the NIH, including refocusing its research, revamping its workforce and slashing funding for universities and grantees. Trump aides last month ordered the NIH to impose a blanket cap on funding to universities for administrative and facilities costs — prompting lawsuits and warnings the move would force schools to shutter laboratories and lay off staff. The decision has since been blocked by the courts. More recently, the NIH canceled $250 million in grants to Columbia University. President Donald Trump's pick to run the NIH, Stanford Medical School Professor Jay Bhattacharya, has long criticized the agency for ceding too much power to career officials, who he's accused of undermining NIH's political leaders. During his confirmation hearing last week, Bhattacharya promised to usher in a new era of free speech and scientific dissent at the agency, alleging that in prior administrations "top NIH officials oversaw a culture of coverup, obfuscation, and a lack of tolerance for ideas that differed from theirs." The Senate health committee is scheduled to vote on Bhattacharya's confirmation on Thursday morning.
Politico
12-03-2025
- Health
- Politico
NIH set to replace chief of staff with former Massie aide
The Trump administration plans to replace the National Institutes of Health's longtime chief of staff with a political appointee, in a striking move likely to tighten its control over the public health agency. John Burklow, a nearly 40-year veteran of the NIH, is being removed from his role, according to three people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity because the decision is not yet public. The agency is expected to instead appoint Seana Cranston as the NIH's new chief of staff, two of the people said, though they cautioned it is not final and could still change. Cranston is a former deputy chief of staff to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who also spent several years as the lawmaker's legislative director. Massie is known for opposing spending bills and this week was the only House Republican to vote no on legislation to avert a government shutdown. An NIH spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. The move would represent a sharp departure from the NIH's longtime practice of appointing career officials as chief of staff to the agency's director. Burklow, who has held the role since 2021, previously spent 20 years as a senior communications official at NIH — a tenure that spanned both Republican and Democratic administrations. 'You feel like you're helping to advance the mission of NIH and that's what's kept me here for 38 years,' Burklow said in a November 2024 interview with the NIH's in-house newsletter for a story on his tenure that dubbed him 'The Methuselah of Bldg. 1,' in reference to the main administrative building on the agency's campus. Trump health officials have signaled plans to drastically overhaul the NIH, including refocusing its research, revamping its workforce and slashing funding for universities and grantees. Trump aides last month ordered the NIH to impose a blanket cap on funding to universities for administrative and facilities costs — prompting lawsuits and warnings the move would force schools to shutter laboratories and lay off staff. The decision has since been blocked by the courts. More recently, the NIH canceled $250 million in grants to Columbia University. President Donald Trump's pick to run the NIH, Stanford Medical School Professor Jay Bhattacharya, has long criticized the agency for ceding too much power to career officials, who he's accused of undermining NIH's political leaders. During his confirmation hearing last week, Bhattacharya promised to usher in a new era of free speech and scientific dissent at the agency, alleging that in prior administrations 'top NIH officials oversaw a culture of coverup, obfuscation, and a lack of tolerance for ideas that differed from theirs.' The Senate health committee is scheduled to vote on Bhattacharya's confirmation on Thursday morning.
