Healthcare & Biotech

New York – September 15, 2026 -- Marwood Group, a healthcare-focused advisory and consulting firm, has secured a strategic investment from Lee Equity Partners to fund acquisitions and senior team hires as it expands beyond its core policy and reimbursement advisory business.

Chris Librizzi departs EY-Parthenon to take Marwood's CEO role

Librizzi joins Marwood after five years leading EY-Parthenon's US strategy consulting business. He previously built and led EY's firmwide corporate strategy function and sat on the company's US Board and Executive Committee. At EY-Parthenon, he oversaw diversification into new customer segments and offerings, developed new products and client solutions, and led senior hires and acquisition integrations.

El Segundo – September 15, 2026 -- JAANUU, the physician-founded medical apparel brand, has expanded its sponsorship deal with the Los Angeles Kings for the 2026-27 NHL season, adding a dedicated Healthcare Professionals Appreciation Night to the partnership.

Kings and JAANUU add themed game night on October 13

The expanded agreement, brokered by AEG Global Partnerships, will see the LA Kings host the Edmonton Oilers at Crypto.com Arena on Tuesday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m. for the inaugural Healthcare Professionals Appreciation Night presented by JAANUU. Every ticketed guest at the game will receive a co-branded foam puck, while JAANUU will run interactive activations, giveaways and contests throughout the arena.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- Global Action to End Smoking has issued a grant to The University of Chicago to expand smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction support for prospective living kidney donors, aiming to increase the pool of eligible donors amid a severe organ shortage.

Kidney demand vastly outstrips supply as nearly 4,000 died waiting in 2023

More than 109,000 people are on the U.S. organ transplant waiting list, with roughly 95,000 awaiting a kidney, according to the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations reported that nearly 4,000 individuals died in 2023 while waiting for a kidney donation. Because donation centers typically require donors to abstain from smoking before surgery due to elevated complication risks, tobacco use disqualifies otherwise willing living donors.

Arlington, Va. – September 15, 2026 -- Daniel H. Gillison, Jr., CEO of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), has been named to The NonProfit Times 2026 Power & Influence Top 50 list, an honor tied to a $59 million gift secured from donor MacKenzie Scott. Gillison will be recognized at the 20th Power & Influence Top 50 Gala on September 17 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

NPT credits Gillison with modernizing NAMI's crisis infrastructure

The NonProfit Times stated that Gillison "modernized the nation's largest grassroots mental health nonprofit, built cross-sector coalitions and secured investments from donors, including MacKenzie Scott, who gifted $59 million." Under his leadership, NAMI launched the National Collaborative for Crisis Systems Innovation, a hub designed to align and strengthen behavioral health crisis care, including the 988 Suicide and Crisis helpline program.

Washington – September 15, 2026 -- Donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplantation expanded rapidly across the United States between 2019 and 2024 without any measurable decline in early clinical outcomes, according to research published in the September 2026 issue of the Journal of Cardiac Failure (JCF).

Registry data on 1,489 patients show no rise in graft failure or mortality

Investigators analyzed U.S. registry data covering 1,489 adult DCD heart transplant recipients, comparing the early adoption period of 2019-2021 with the national expansion period of 2022-2024. The analysis found no significant differences in one-year graft failure, mortality, need for renal replacement therapy, re-transplantation or hospital length of stay between the two periods. Outcomes remained consistent even among higher-risk recipients, as DCD transplantation spread to a growing number of transplant centers nationwide.

Newark, N.J. – September 15, 2026 -- NovaOne has launched a modular healthcare platform that merges preventive, curative and specialty behavioral health services into a single contract, aiming to eliminate the fragmented vendor stacks that health plans and employers have relied on for years.

Platform cuts time-to-care from 50 days to under five

Members are screened across more than 15 clinical risk areas and routed to in-network providers proven effective for their specific conditions, reaching evidence-based care in under five days on average, compared with a national average exceeding 50 days.

Chicago – September 15, 2026 -- The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) will gather more than 400 healthcare professionals at the Loews O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois, from September 16-18 for its annual conference on physician board certification.

Conference agenda spans 40 breakout sessions and AI-focused workforce debates

The three-day program includes two plenary sessions, 40 breakout sessions, one Sponsor Spotlight, four Exhibitor Showcases, and a 40-poster session. Core topics cover artificial intelligence in medicine, professionalism standards, innovation assessment methods, competency-based medical education, and structural shifts in the US physician workforce.

Baltimore – September 15, 2026 -- Sixty percent of health plans collect social drivers of health (SDoH) screening data, yet just 7% describe their organizations as "very effective" at converting that data into action, according to new research from Sage Growth Partners.

The consultancy surveyed 50 health plan leaders for a report titled "From SDoH Data to Maternal Health Action," the third and final installment in its State of Maternal & NICU Care 2026 series. Eighty percent of respondents said they are only "somewhat confident" in their ability to use the SDoH data they already hold.

Valencia, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Bioness Medical, Inc. and OneStep have struck a partnership that lets clinicians measure patient gait and mobility using only a smartphone, both in clinic and in daily life, the companies announced.

Data from 300 patients shows measurable gains in walking speed and stride length

More than 300 patients were evaluated on OneStep's gait analysis platform to gauge the immediate impact of functional electrical stimulation from Bioness' L300 Go and L300 Go Plus systems. Among adults using the L300 Go Plus, stride length increased by 5.9 cm and walking velocity rose from 0.68 to 0.74 m/s, with parallel gains in overall and symmetry-based gait scores.

Austin, Texas – September 15, 2026 -- Milagro has extended its autonomous surgical coding platform to three additional ambulatory surgery centers operated by Constitution Surgery Alliance (CSA), bringing total deployment to 12 CSA facilities across New England and the Northeast.

CSA scales automated coding while keeping certified coders in the review loop

The expansion supports increasingly complex surgical coding workflows at CSA, one of the largest independent operators of outpatient surgery centers in the U.S. Sayword Hill, SVP of Revenue Cycle for CSA, said Milagro's automation is layered with the organization's existing coding review, quality assurance and auditing processes, allowing certified coding professionals to maintain oversight as automation scope grows.