History, popular culture and advances in science and technology are often measured in decades: the space age in the 1950s; the peace movement in the ’60s; the digital age in the ’90s.
The healthcare industry’s continued failure to prevent hospital-acquired infections appears to have no end in sight, despite a steady stream of calls for improvement and the threat of regulation at the state level picking up steam.
Tenet Healthcare Corp. said that Jennifer Daley, the company’s chief medical officer for the past five years, is leaving Sept. 28 to take the same position with Partners Community Healthcare in Boston.
Gary Carter, New Jersey Hospital Association president and chief executive officer, said he will retire in June 2008. Carter, 63, joined the trade association in 1993 after eight years as head of the New Hampshire Hospital Association and four years...
The healthcare industry’s continued failure to prevent hospital-acquired infections appears to have no end in sight, despite a steady stream of calls for improvement and the threat of regulation at the state level picking up steam.
A survey released last week indicating that premiums for employer-sponsored health plans increased an average of 6.1% in 2007 gave more ammunition to employers, providers and lawmakers fighting for a faster healthcare overhaul.
A vow from the CMS’ acting head to make the agency more accountable to the healthcare community was greeted with open arms by industry representatives.
The Catholic Health Association last week joined the American Hospital Association in a plea for broader criteria from the Internal Revenue Service as to what constitutes community benefits—though the AHA would go farther than its Catholic...
Healthcare providers could face emboldened whistle-blowers siccing the government on alleged schemes to defraud Medicare and Medicaid if U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is successful in retooling the False Claims Act.
Amerinet’s purchase of two technology companies is another sign of how group purchasing organizations are working to gain an edge in a highly competitive marketplace, according to industry observers.
History, popular culture and advances in science and technology are often measured in decades: the space age in the 1950s; the peace movement in the ’60s; the digital age in the ’90s.
As part of the selection process for Modern Healthcare’s 21st annual Up & Comers award program, we issued a call for nominations in our May 7 issue and ran a series of advertisements soliciting nominations through July 6. We extended the...
After Saad Ehtisham’s grandmother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer when he was a young boy, helping take care of her affected his life, giving him a view of healthcare from the caregiver’s perspective. When he was a teenager, he came to the U.S.
When Lloyd Ford first walked in the door of 135-bed Muhlenberg Community Hospital in 2004 as the new chief executive officer, the income statement showed five straight years of losses, with the latest in excess of $1.8 million. The ambulance service...
Anand Joshi was on track to become a physician. It was what he had aimed for since he was a little boy watching his mom, an anesthesiologist, come home for dinner still in her scrubs.
If Kip Kirkpatrick had it to do all over again, he says he might become a doctor. As it turns out, though, he’s playing a key role in developing companies that will help patients in many ways.
When Patrick Stapleton became chief executive of the venerable Sherrill House nursing home in 2003, he had one tough act to follow when he took over for longtime long-term-care executive Don Powell.
If it is hard to argue an indefensible proposition, the Bush administration is showing no obvious signs of distress. It continues to vow that it will go to the mat to protect the Medicare Advantage program, even in the face of overwhelming evidence...
There’s a reason that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is the only major presidential candidate to advocate a single-payer healthcare system (“Get rid of the for-profits,” Sept. 3, p. 40). The truth remains that while reform is necessary,...
A columnist in the Wall Street Journal who writes about management recently did a piece on three successful leaders who had benefited from avoiding the mistakes of their predecessors. It brought home the truth that negative lessons often...
