Banner Health spokesman Bill Byron was among a large group of employees from the healthcare system’s eight Phoenix-area hospitals to receive an early morning cattle call one day last month. According to the caller, there was a developing emergency...
Evanston (Ill.) Northwestern Healthcare bought a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune to say the system was “thrilled” with news from Washington, which may have looked to some like an up-is-down spin job.
The CMS has terminated its contract with Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital in Los Angeles, effective Aug. 15, citing “significant problems” that continue to plague the troubled hospital. “Conditions at the facility have placed the health and...
Health plan rating agency A.M. Best Co. announced last week that it planned to expand its analytical coverage of the hospital industry, treading into territory already covered by the big three credit-rating agencies: Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investors...
Evanston (Ill.) Northwestern Healthcare bought a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune to say the system was “thrilled” with news from Washington, which may have looked to some like an up-is-down spin job.
Some hospitals could risk coding things incorrectly or even losing money if they do not receive the additional training and resources needed to phase in the federal government’s new Medicare DRG system, sources warned.
HHS batted .500 during an otherwise slow week in Washington, with the agency losing one high-profile leader in Assistant Secretary for Health John Agwunobi only to gain another in recently appointed Deputy Secretary Tevi Troy.
A new chief executive officer will finish out the two-year turnaround under way at Gary, Ind.-based Methodist Hospitals. But the incoming president and CEO will be a familiar face.
A settlement in a closely watched lawsuit over who is accountable when not-for-profit hospitals fail could be good news for stewards of troubled facilities.
Two prominent trade association executives, including one specializing in healthcare governance, say their positions on the advisory board of a German healthcare information technology company trying to gain a foothold in the U.S. market pose no...
Modern Healthcare is pleased to announce the results of its 22nd annual Design Awards, which included four awards for excellence, three honorable mentions, and two citations chosen from 181 entries. The winners—which will be profiled in the...
Please welcome reporter Jean DerGurahian to our editorial staff. DerGurahian, 29, covers quality of care and patient safety out of our Chicago office. She also covers regional healthcare business news in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and...
States have been taking action to expand health coverage for uninsured young adults, the Commonwealth Fund reported last week. Sixteen states over the past few years have enacted laws mandating insurers to provide insurance to dependent young adults...
As a healthcare information technology implementation strategy, the “big bang” fizzled famously during the 2002 deployment of a computerized physician-order entry system at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Banner Health spokesman Bill Byron was among a large group of employees from the healthcare system’s eight Phoenix-area hospitals to receive an early morning cattle call one day last month. According to the caller, there was a developing emergency...
BELVIDERE, Ill.—Northwest Suburban Community Hospital has filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. The July 31 filing was required under an agreement to sell the facility to SwedishAmerican Health System in...
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The University of Louisville will use a $2.5 billion capital investment to expand its Health Sciences Center in downtown Louisville over the next 20 years. The project will include 3.2 million square feet of new research...
LOS ANGELES—Affordability should be a key component of any meaningful healthcare reform because middle-class families are already struggling to meet basic healthcare expenses, said a report by the University of California at Los Angeles and...
Mark Chassin seems to be an excellent choice as the next president of the Joint Commission. As our Aug. 6 cover story revealed, he is a past critic of the organization, and has worked on quality issues for prestigious institutions most of his...
David Burda’s editorial about the legislative response to former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona’s congressional testimony was right on the button (“Carmona! Carmona! Carmona!” July 23, p. 21). I am no fan of President Bush’s politicization of...
A new book called The Power of Nice is a winner. The book, by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, the chief executive officer and president, respectively, of the Kaplan Thaler Group advertising agency, describes how being successful doesn’t...
VHA, Irving, Texas, has tapped Byron Jobe to be CFO and senior vice president of the company. Jobe, 38, was CFO for Healthvision, a company providing Web-based clinical solutions and services to hospitals and other healthcare organizations.
At Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, a new education and entertainment system can be described this way: play station meets the nurses’ station.
