ARO U N D T H E NATION

WEST

Headspace Health, the Santa Monica, California-based digital mental health

“unicorn,” is acquiring Shine, a wellness and mental health app. Shine said it has 45,000 paid subscribers and 90 enterprise customers. Terms of the deal, which will embed Shine’s content into Headspace Health’s apps, were not disclosed. Shine co-CEOs Marah Lidey and Naomi Hirabayashi will join Headspace, assuming leadership roles on the company’s product and marketing teams.

SOUTH

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health

CEO Warner Thomas will leave the health system to lead Sutter Health. Thomas, who has been Ochsner Health’s chief executive since 2012, will succeed Sutter Health interim CEO James Conforti on Dec. 1. Ochsner’s board appointed Chief Financial Officer Pete November as Thomas’ successor, effective Nov. 1.

JP Morgan Chase & Co.’s healthcare

arm, Morgan Health, will invest

$20 million in digital health firm LetsGetChecked. The platform offers at-home diagnostic and genetic testing, virtual appointments and prescription drug delivery. This deal is part of Washington, D.C.-based Morgan Health’s plan to devote $250 million to the healthcare space.

MIDWEST

Henry Ford Health has named its interim president and CEO Robert

Riney to the job on a permanent basis, the Detroit-based health system said. Riney has been chief operating officer since 2003. He succeeds Wright Lassiter III, who left Henry Ford in August to take the top job at Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health.

BHSH System, the combined Beaumont Health and Spectrum

Health, is laying off 400 management and non-patient facing workers statewide. The Michigan system said the cuts are part of a cost-reduction plan alluded to in its first consolidated financial report Aug. 18. It attributed the layoffs to “significant financial pressures from historic inflation, rising pharmaceutical and labor costs, COVID-19, expiration of CARES Act funding and reimbursement not proportional with expenses.”