For advocates of primary care, and for payers and purchasers looking to improve healthcare quality while lowering costs, apparently there is no place like home—specifically, a “patient-centered” medical home.
All eyes turned toward Washington earlier this year when federal officials unveiled what’s expected to become uniform, nationwide rules for how not-for-profit hospitals count and disclose what they give back to communities.
For advocates of primary care, and for payers and purchasers looking to improve healthcare quality while lowering costs, apparently there is no place like home—specifically, a “patient-centered” medical home.
The Veterans Affairs Department last week continued to see its reputation for high-quality healthcare tarnished, with federal lawmakers challenging VA officials to explain how one of the most sophisticated systems in use today to check physician...
The criminal investigation into DaVita’s pharmaceutical billing practices in Nevada may subject yet another healthcare luminary to questions about serving as a paid director on the board of an outside healthcare company.
National dialysis giant DaVita is facing another investigation that involves its use of the anemia drug Epogen, a subject that has caught the interest of Congress and various state and federal authorities but has so far yielded no civil or criminal...
At least seven medical-profession associations are among the names appearing on payment-disclosure lists posted on orthopedic-device makers’ Web sites, prompting some policymakers to suggest the payments are further evidence of how far-reaching...
The U.S. Justice Department closed its fiscal 2007 books with a tally of healthcare-related False Claims Act recoveries that was down by a third from the previous year. But experts say the government is hardly losing interest.
In an unusual move, one of the nation’s largest foundations supporting healthcare improvement has given a multimillion-dollar grant to a for-profit company that is wholly owned by the not-for-profit managed-care giant Kaiser Permanente.
A coalition of Maryland hospitals and the state schools that train potential medical staff last week unveiled a $59 million initiative to double the number of nursing students, expand the educational workforce and boost salaries in an effort meant...
Greene Health Partners, a one-hospital system in Xenia, Ohio, formed an affiliation with Kettering Health Network, a four-hospital system based in Dayton, Ohio. Under a joint operating agreement announced Oct. 30, both organizations retain ownership...
A deal for Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic to acquire its first hospital, Lakeview Medical Center, Rice Lake, Wis., won’t go to a vote this week as expected as the prospective partners continue to negotiate terms and a shifting legal landscape.
A state-by-state ranking of the nation’s overall well-being revealed some disturbing paradoxes last week as experts said hospitals can improve public health by reaching out to their communities.
In 2006, the first of the roughly 79 million American baby boomers hit age 60, representing the vanguard of a feisty demographic group moving inexorably toward its final confrontation—old age.
All eyes turned toward Washington earlier this year when federal officials unveiled what’s expected to become uniform, nationwide rules for how not-for-profit hospitals count and disclose what they give back to communities.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—A new $98 million hospital opened on Nov. 5. The 64-bed Thompson Peak facility is the third hospital for Scottsdale Healthcare. The hospital has an emergency department, 56 inpatient beds, an eight-bed intensive-care unit...
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—The University of Rochester Medical Center submitted an application to the New York health department for the largest clinical expansion in Strong Memorial Hospital’s history, boosting its licensed bed capacity to 862 beds...
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—The Alabama Department of Public Health will develop a statewide trauma system in collaboration with medical professionals throughout the state. The trauma system, including emergency medical technicians, communication,...
DES MOINES, Iowa—Iowa hospitals must win certificate-of-need approval to build a replacement hospital at a new location, an Iowa District Court judge said. The state CON law exempts projects to replace or modernize hospitals that do not add...
America is at a healthcare crossroads. We have the best healthcare system in the world. That’s why people come here from all over the world seeking treatment. However, our system also suffers from decades of failed government mandates and wasteful...
Over the past several months, I have read in the pages of Modern Healthcare numerous examples of industry conflicts of interest. In every situation the person at the center of the controversy declares that there is no conflict. This is...
In his Little Green Book of Getting Your Way, author Jeffrey Gitomer writes: “If I had a dollar for every corporate leader, from CEOs to branch managers, who had lousy presentation skills, I’d be a multi-billionaire. … If you would like to...
The American Medical Association named Marietta Parenti as its new senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Previously, Parenti was the vice president of marketing and public relations at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, a...
Renal-care provider DaVita, El Segundo, Calif., said Mark Harrison will leave his position as CFO, effective Nov. 30. Harrison’s departure was “reached by mutual agreement,” the company said in a news release. Harrison, 50, said that he...
The tentative merger between two major California medical malpractice insurers is facing fierce opposition from a former board member who is also a shareholder, and who could foil the plan to create the largest insurer of physician and surgeon...
After more than 30 years of practicing medicine in Houston, heart surgeon Rafael Espada has returned to his native Guatemala in a big way—as the nation’s newly elected vice president.
