Having a positive culture of mutual trust, focusing on best practices to improve clinical quality and expanding specialty services contributed to 178-bed Holland (Mich.) Hospital’s steady improvement in meeting community needs, positive financial...
With no tangible solution in sight to fix, repeal or replace Medicare’s sustainable growth-rate formula for paying physicians, hospital executives are worried their own payment system will be put on the chopping block to compensate for a...
St. Clare’s Health System, a four-hospital system based in northwest New Jersey, said it will become a member organization of Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives in June pending regulatory approval and due diligence. The decision to join the...
With no tangible solution in sight to fix, repeal or replace Medicare’s sustainable growth-rate formula for paying physicians, hospital executives are worried their own payment system will be put on the chopping block to compensate for a...
The high-profile problems uncovered at two hospitals that were accredited by the Joint Commission have led to renewed criticism from congressional healthcare leaders about the value of the commission’s accreditation process.
Healthcare unions and hospitals are gearing up to turn the nation’s nascent presidential race into a battleground over organized labor’s push to relax oversight of union elections.
With little sign of federal action to address the needs of the nation’s uninsured, five states last week made strides toward putting health insurance within reach for millions of Americans.
This budget season in New York, the healthcare lobby has been responding to a proposed $1.3 billion cut in Medicaid, including $1 billion in cuts for hospitals and nursing homes, in its traditional fashion with a direct-to-the-public media and...
After more than a century as a single-hospital town, Bloomington, Ind., witnessed the opening of 32-bed Monroe Hospital in mid-October 2006. The $35 million hospital with all-private rooms was designed to give residents a modern alternative to...
UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minn., said charges to correct for backdated stock-option grants will cut previously reported profits by a combined $1.56 billion pretax. The nation’s second-largest health insurer included a long-awaited restatement...
Modern Healthcare is seeking nominations for its fifth annual CEO IT Achievement Award competition. The award, co-sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, honors healthcare industry chief executive officers who...
Having a positive culture of mutual trust, focusing on best practices to improve clinical quality and expanding specialty services contributed to 178-bed Holland (Mich.) Hospital’s steady improvement in meeting community needs, positive financial...
That giant whooshing sound you could hear in Washington in January was the collective exhale of the not-for-profit healthcare world as the Democrats took control of Congress. It meant that Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Bill Thomas, the GOP attack...
There are times when I agree to fulfill some request and then quickly realize I have overcommitted myself. I have done this so many times over the years that I must like it this way at some level. Most recently, I agreed to give a talk to a group of...
Mercy Health System of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, named Diana Smalley president and CEO, effective April 2. She will also serve as president and CEO of Mercy Health Center. Smalley, 55, succeeds Michael Packnett, who left in April 2006...
Four doctors’ groups that provide the majority of primary care to patients in the U.S. have released a set of principles to guide the establishment of a so-called “patient-centered medical home.” The model of a medical home, outlined by primary-care...
No one is suggesting buying firewood, propane, generators and the rest of the assorted items that helped make households Y2K ready and many vendors financially sound back in late 1999. But there are warnings over a “healthcare transaction hiccup”...
