Rancho Cucamonga – October 15, 2026 -- Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) ranked No. 34 on the 2026 Fortune and Great Place To Work Best Workplaces in Health Care list, its fifth consecutive year on the ranking.

Employee survey returns 87% favorable rating at IEHP

The 2026 Great Place To Work survey went to more than 3,800 IEHP team members. In the survey, 87% of respondents said the health plan is a great place to work. IEHP earned Great Place To Work certification in April for the sixth year in a row.

Eagan, Minnesota – October 15, 2026 -- Solventum (NYSE: SOLV) will release its third-quarter fiscal 2026 financial results on Thursday, November 5, 2026, after U.S. financial markets close.

Management hosts webcast directly after the November 5 release

Solventum management will hold a webcast following the release to discuss the results. The company said other forward-looking and material information may also be covered during the call, so the session may go beyond the reported figures.

Oakland – October 15, 2026 -- Blue Shield of California has appointed Erin Brewer, a strategic advisor and former Lyft chief financial officer, to its Board of Directors, adding more than 25 years of finance and operations experience as the nonprofit health plan pursues its affordability agenda.

Brewer led Lyft through its first full year of profitability

Brewer joined Lyft as CFO in 2023. In that role and in her current advisory capacity, she helped lead a financial transformation that included the ride-hailing company's first full year of profitability.

Chicago – October 15, 2026 -- The American Association of Endodontists (AAE) is one of 24 associations profiled in a new book on how professional bodies guided their members through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bronx – October 15, 2026 -- Montefiore Einstein has unveiled a renovated labor and delivery suite at Jack D. Weiler Hospital, funded by a $9.68 million grant from the New York Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program.

Pittsburgh – October 14, 2026 -- Allegheny Health Network (AHN) has appointed surgical oncologist Nipun B. Merchant, MD, as chair of its Department of Surgery and its first surgeon-in-chief, effective February 2027.

Scottsdale – – October 14, 2026 -- Senior Helpers has given its highest honor, the Founders Award, to multi-unit franchisees Tiffany and Shaun Phelan, the first couple to receive it, for operating four locations across Arizona and California.

The Phelans own two locations in Scottsdale and Mesa, Arizona, and two in Clovis and Visalia, California. The award goes to owners who champion the brand's programs, support fellow owners and earn the trust of families in their communities. Senior Helpers presented it at its recent annual conference.

TORONTO – October 14, 2026 -- Patients treated with whole-gland TULSA were more than twice as likely to preserve both erectile function and pad-free continence at six months as those who had robotic radical prostatectomy (risk ratio 2.1; p=0.004), according to CAPTAIN trial data. Profound Medical Corp. (NASDAQ:PROF; TSX:PRN) presented the results among five abstracts at the 15th Interventional MRI Symposium in Boston.

New York – October 14, 2026 -- Consumer365 has recognized Sharps Assure as a notable option for infusion providers researching sharps disposal in 2026, citing its mail-back retrieval systems, five container size tiers and tracking documentation.

Stockholm – October 14, 2026 -- SciBase Holding AB (STO: SCIB) has received its first positive medical policy for Nevisense from Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, which serves more than 7 million members across multiple US states. The decision moves eligible use of the skin-lesion device from a predominantly cash-pay model into covered care through a major private insurer.