Modern Healthcare congratulates the winners and honorable mentions of the 15th annual Spirit of Excellence Awards, co-sponsored by Sodexho Health Care Services. This year’s winners and runners-up are profiled on the following pages. Each of...
Despite its relatively small size and challenged balance sheet, Rush North Shore Medical Center has enthusiastically boarded the quality improvement train with some impressive results.
Staph infections, particularly the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain, are now endemic in hospitals, according to a study published in the December issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Hospitalizations related to MRSA more...
Despite its relatively small size and challenged balance sheet, Rush North Shore Medical Center has enthusiastically boarded the quality improvement train with some impressive results.
Two growing healthcare companies last week announced they were gobbling up smaller businesses in key sectors—part of a strategic effort to boost market share in an increasingly competitive environment.
A lawsuit possibly headed to the U.S. Supreme Court may bring a definitive ruling on whether hospitals’ peer-review records enjoy any protection in federal courts.
Layoffs and other cutbacks have begun at hospitals that are no longer able to take advantage of a special wage-index reclassification that boosts Medicare reimbursement through Section 508 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.
A New Jersey trial judge’s ruling is sending ripples throughout the state’s medical community for its contention that the physician-owners of an ambulatory surgery center are in violation of the state’s Codey Act, which prohibits self-referral. The...
Despite a host of technological advances, recent cuts in Medicare reimbursement and greater scrutiny of imaging bills by private payers have placed a cloud over the radiology industry, according to attendees at the 2007 Radiological Society of North...
The divestitures made by Tenet Healthcare Corp. over the past four years comprise a disparate group of 48 hospitals from 10 states, but some broad themes emerge from the Medicare cost reports filed by those hospitals.
Modern Healthcare congratulates the winners and honorable mentions of the 15th annual Spirit of Excellence Awards, co-sponsored by Sodexho Health Care Services. This year’s winners and runners-up are profiled on the following pages. Each of...
In 2003, patient satisfaction with the Environmental Services Department at 157-bed OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington, Ill., ranked at the 83rd percentile for friendliness and the 69th percentile for cleanliness, according to the Press...
No one at Clarian West Medical Center in Avon, Ind., regards patients’ needs as being someone else’s “area.” The 101-bed facility’s “Be the ONE” campaign, launched in June, is a call to action for all employees to pitch in whenever possible.
Intensive-care patients at the Toledo (Ohio) Hospital have seen average daily glucose counts drop significantly during the past two years since the 480-bed facility implemented a glycemic management initiative.
The Force for Good at St. John’s Clinic in Springfield, Mo., has raised more than $500,000 for not-for-profit organizations in the past four years. Physicians and staff at the multispecialty, 470-doctor outpatient facility contribute to two...
More than 17,000 children at more than 80 schools and organizations have benefited from the life skills learned through the Stranger Safety Program provided by the Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, N.Y.
Until a year ago, St. John Health in Warren, Mich., had been using approximately 75 full-time equivalents of agency nurses. Now the seven-hospital system, which has 2,340 licensed beds, is out of the agency business, having started what’s...
Your mother knows that heart attacks and strokes are time-sensitive events requiring immediate attention to prevent loss of life. But she probably doesn’t know that mortality rates for sepsis are significantly higher, says Chad Cannon, an emergency...
A series of high-profile child-abuse deaths capped by a preschooler who died on Christmas 2003 inspired 196-bed Christus Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital in San Antonio to directly address the issue. In surrounding Bexar County, Child Protective...
To help ease the transition back to living at home, the 202-bed medical rehabilitation facility HealthSouth Harmarville (Pa.) launched an initiative in September to enable patients with severe disabilities to mix with the general population at...
After many years of policymaker indifference, it is pleasing to find that costs have inched onto center stage in the healthcare reform debate. As health policy researchers and this page have so long argued, you can’t address universal coverage...
Your special report on healthcare providers opening retail clinics was a timely message for healthcare executives across the country who are experiencing the onslaught of retail and convenient-care clinics by national and regional retailers and...
I remember well my first meeting with my friend. At the time, I was president of the local high school’s dad’s club. We raised all kinds of money for various projects, including lights for the football and soccer field. It involved me getting to...
Insurance agents trying to sell Medicare Advantage private fee-for-service plans may be walking on eggshells these days. They never know if a CMS “mole” may be listening to every word they say.
