The French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery is best known to Americans as the author of the children’s story The Little Prince. But he recounts some of his adventures as a pilot and states his philosophy of life in another work,...
Not-for-profit hospitals are “looking hale and hearty,” while “the for-profit sector could soon be heading to the emergency room,” according to a new report by Standard & Poor’s examining the credit quality gap between the two sectors. The...
Consumers don’t usually have much choice in health insurers, but one national customer-satisfaction survey says that those who do would be better off with privately held companies than publicly traded juggernauts like UnitedHealth Group, whose...
The White House last week stood firmly behind its focus on consumer-directed healthcare amid growing pressure to adopt universal health coverage and questions about whether President Bush’s agenda has grown outdated.
Leading healthcare bills on Capitol Hill would do more to cover uninsured Americans than the Bush administration’s current proposal, a new report from the Commonwealth Fund concluded.
In a special themed issue, the Journal of the American Medical Association last week weighed in on the emotional debate on access to care with studies that found predictable holes in the safety net, and offered editorial comment suggesting...
The Cleveland Clinic, which came under fire late last year over ethics issues involving its top executive, is putting its new conflict-of-interest policy to use in the early stages of a plan to create a telemedicine partnership with a...
A lobbying effort is under way to increase federal spending on researching healthcare quality improvement, cost reduction, patient safety and disparity elimination. According to a letter signed by 47 healthcare-related companies and organizations,...
When Maryland legislators passed a first-of-its-kind law in January 2006 forcing retail giant Wal-Mart to pick up a greater share of its workers’ health insurance costs, the measure was hailed as a model for other states grappling with mounting...
The French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery is best known to Americans as the author of the children’s story The Little Prince. But he recounts some of his adventures as a pilot and states his philosophy of life in another work,...
Nancy Brinker’s mother would often take her and her late sister, Susan Komen, volunteering in homeless shelters, for the Red Cross or elsewhere when they were young girls.
While Charles P. Cardwell Jr. was working for a short period as director of the department of buildings and grounds at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond, the story goes that he walked into the president’s office one day and...
When Gail L. Warden became president and chief executive officer for Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System in 1988, he brought with him a range of experience that has contributed to the success of both Henry Ford and the health management...
A recent public-safety project of the Pew Charitable Trusts estimates that between 2007 and 2011 the number of state and federal prisoners will grow by about 192,000 inmates—a nearly 13% increase that would be almost triple the projected growth rate...
Providing healthcare services to the nation's more than 2 million inmates is a formidable task, given this patient population's high level of chronic and communicable disease, the lack of a universal model to provide care, and increasing costs in...
NEW ORLEANS—The Louisiana State University Health Care Services Division last month said patients would be moved from the temporary trauma center at Ochsner Health System’s Elmwood Hospital in the Jefferson Parish area of New Orleans to LSU...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—Monroe Hospital has replaced its president with an executive from a hospital group that is among the investors in the financially ailing facility. The 32-bed hospital replaced former President and Chief Executive Officer...
PHOENIX—Phoenix Memorial Hospital said it will close its emergency room and convert to a campus that offers urgent care and other services such as long-term care and rehabilitation, effective June 1. The 159-bed hospital, owned by Vanguard...
NEW YORK—New York City hospitals do not appear to have lost any market share of nonresident patients seeking complex specialty care even though suburban hospitals began acquiring and expanding technologies to better compete with city...
The American College of Healthcare Executives’ annual Congress on Healthcare Leadership gives attendees more than just an opportunity to increase their knowledge and skills through dozens of education sessions over the four-day conference. It gives...
For hospitals and healthcare organizations to thrive in today’s environment, executives and medical staff must strive to develop a guiding framework for the entire organization to follow. Every decision we make has potential consequences for our...
There’s a whole new world out there, and I am beginning to realize I have missed something along the way. I have always believed the best way to deal with colleagues or clients—or anybody for that matter—is in person. Most sales manuals will advise...
Adventist Health, Roseville, Calif., said Donald Ammon will retire as president and CEO at year-end, capping a 42-year career with the not-for-profit healthcare system. Ammon, 65, has held the top spot since January 1999. The board has...
The use of mnemonics has long been an aid for doctors and medical students in learning the long strings of complicated information needed to assess the patient before them. Thanks to Newfoundland physician Robert O’Connor, many of these words and...
