Healthcare tax-exempt borrowers were offered an unusual bright spot by Congress last week following months of bad news: A sweeping bill to help homeowners included a provision to aid others embroiled in the housing meltdown, namely tax-exempt bond...
Patients who dig into meals at 281-bed Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, Calif., may be surprised to learn that their fare not only features fresh, organic fruits and vegetables, but also just-picked selections from the hospital’s own garden.
Hospitals and physicians are criticizing the CMS for increasing the number of conditions for which Medicare will no longer reimburse under its final inpatient prospective payment system rule for 2009 published last week.
A Senate panel scolded Indian Health Service Director Robert McSwain for lax oversight after the Government Accountability Office found that more than 5,000 items, valued at about $15.8 million, have either been lost or stolen from the agency,...
Rodney Miller, president of the National Association of Health Services Executives, resigned as administrator of a Florida hospital after an audit report was issued finding “an alarming level of mismanagement” and excessive compensation during his...
Healthcare tax-exempt borrowers were offered an unusual bright spot by Congress last week following months of bad news: A sweeping bill to help homeowners included a provision to aid others embroiled in the housing meltdown, namely tax-exempt bond...
The proposed merger between Pennsylvania’s two largest insurers got more scrutiny last week as the Keystone State’s senior senator, Arlen Specter, grilled top executives and stakeholders for two hours at a committee hearing.
A bill introduced by an influential senator and aimed at boosting reimbursement to small, rural hospitals could find itself hamstrung by a congressionally sensitive provision to all but stymie physician ownership of hospitals.
As federal lawmakers consider what additional role they might play in regulating long-term-care insurance, skilled-nursing home experts called for expanding both state and federal long-term-care insurance programs after a recent congressional...
On the sun-drenched northern end of Hawaii’s Big Island, a tiny 40-bed hospital has amenities much larger hospitals would envy: a 64-slice CT scanner, a specialized heart-brain center, a telemedicine program with the Cleveland Clinic, a rapid...
West Penn Allegheny Health System’s turnaround stumbled last week with news an audit wiped $73 million from its books, in yet another setback since its record-setting $750 million bond offering last year.
Some hospitals may be laying off employees, but the three for-profit chains that reported earnings last week are restoring healthcare’s reputation for being strong when the economy’s weak.
For a change, the Tennessee Health Services and Development Agency board has thrown HCA for a loss in Spring Hill, Tenn., a bedroom community south of the company’s Nashville headquarters.
A well-connected venture by a Nashville-based company to build and operate a hospital in Ningbo, China, offers great opportunity and risk, said healthcare policy experts familiar with the China market.
The choice of a consultant with more experience in the boardroom than in the hospital as the future chairman of the nation’s largest hospital association was a rare decision not seen in almost a decade by its trustees.
The sharp moves seen in the stock market in recent weeks haven’t stopped two healthcare providers—IPC the Hospitalist Co. and Select Medical Corp.—from turning to the market as a source of capital.
Physicians are angling to buy stakes in two struggling Midwest hospitals, believing that physician investment and management paired with not-for-profit healthcare partners can get better results.
Donations to not-for-profit hospitals may be slowing down, yet industry sources claim their fundraising programs continue to stay afloat through loyal donors and healthy community support.
Patients who dig into meals at 281-bed Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, Calif., may be surprised to learn that their fare not only features fresh, organic fruits and vegetables, but also just-picked selections from the hospital’s own garden.
SIMI VALLEY, Calif.—Simi Valley Hospital is demolishing its original 1965 structure to make way for a new main lobby, chapel, parking area and gift shop in a 7,000-square-foot improvement project to be completed next spring. This is the final...
JOLIET, Ill.—Silver Cross Hospital received approval from the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board to build a $398 million replacement hospital in New Lenox, Ill., about four miles east of its current 245-bed facility. The short move...
ATLANTA—Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta expects to spend $2.5 billion over the next 10 years as it lays out a strategy for capital and program expansions. The three-hospital system plans to break ground Aug. 13 at its Hughes Spalding...
If you’re not feeling well, who would you trust most to make you get better? Your physician, the administrator of your local hospital or Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)?
As the presidential race narrows and the McCain and Obama campaigns seek to differentiate themselves with their proposals for fixing healthcare, it’s important that they consider how their programs will affect our nation’s businesses. The stakes for...
In response to your article on the health information technology bill passed by a House committee: (“IT bill draws concerns,” July 28, p. 8): I, too, worry that the relatively large amounts of money will attract the same type (or same) firms that...
The University HealthSystem Consortium appointed Susan Pingleton chief learning officer, according to a news release. Pingleton, whose appointment to the newly created position began in early July, will direct the consortium’s...
Dirigo Health, Maine’s state-run healthcare program, has run into a bit of a dispute—nearly $150 million worth of a dispute. The state’ top four health plans are slamming the board overseeing Dirigo, saying its estimated claims savings of $149.6...
