A venerable investment bank filed for bankruptcy protection, and another was sold under heavy duress. The federal government took an 80% stake in a behemoth insurance company in return for an $85 billion loan. Central bankers around the globe were...
Pieces of HHS’ new plan to tackle hospital-acquired infections were revealed by an HHS official during a presentation at the Joint Commission’s 2008 Annual Infection Prevention and Control Conference in Chicago. The plan, which identifies priorities...
A venerable investment bank filed for bankruptcy protection, and another was sold under heavy duress. The federal government took an 80% stake in a behemoth insurance company in return for an $85 billion loan. Central bankers around the globe were...
By at least one measure, last week’s rushed bankruptcy of a Wall Street giant must have seemed eerily familiar to the struggling Hawaii Medical Center: The end came fast.
Hospital lobbyists are playing a game of “Beat the Clock” with Congress, eyeing a handful of healthcare provisions that they want to see pushed through in what could be the final week of the legislative session.
With a new presidential administration on the horizon, providers are hoping that Congress will wipe the slate clean on Medicare’s physician payment formula and start over. Whether lawmakers will have the stomach to do anything radical with...
The healthcare industry’s response to Hurricane Ike last week was helped by lessons learned about collaboration and communication in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita three years ago.
Former Leapfrog Group Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Delbanco has landed another executive position, this time heading a private company that has developed and is hoping to sell video systems to watch healthcare workers as they perform...
Burke Whitman had to wait a year and a half after he joined Health Management Associates to become the company’s chief executive officer. Just 15 months after rising to the top, however, the former Triad Hospitals executive is leaving, with a former...
When the government’s fraud enforcers come knocking, lawyers and compliance officers generally counsel healthcare providers to wrap up potential trouble all at once, and then take care not to give investigators a reason to come back. It hasn’t...
Nominations for Modern Healthcare’s 16th annual Spirit of Excellence awards are now open. The awards, co-sponsored by Sodexo Health Care Services, honor organizations and individuals that go beyond what’s expected in serving their patients...
Months before two hurricanes pounded the Gulf Coast and their remnants brought torrential rains to many parts of the heartland, a small Indiana hospital knew a thing or two about how to come back from a devastating flood.
Type of facility: Medical center Project architect: HKS Construction manager: Gilbane Completed: December 2010 Size: 425,000 square feet Cost: $150 million Cost per square foot: $353
Type of facility: Ambulatory-care center housing a cancer-care center, a center for advanced imaging and the Caldwell Breast Health Center Project architect: OWP/P
Type of facility: Sports therapy center Project architect: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects Construction manager: Turner Construction Co. Completed: August 2007 Size: 15,000 square feet
Type of facility: Inpatient addition Project architect: Ballinger Construction manager: L.F. Driscoll Co. Completed: August 2007 Size: 142,000 square feet Cost: $46 million
Type of facility: Ambulatory care Project architect: Ballinger Construction manager: Bovis Lend Lease Completed: January 2007 Size: 330,000 square feet Cost: $142 million Cost per square foot: $430
Type of facility: Community hospital Project architect: NBBJ Construction manager: McCarthy Construction Completed: September 2007 Size: 379,000 square feet Cost: $122 million
Notes on the news: One of the most discouraging aspects of the recent wave of financial disasters is the abandonment of corporate stewardship by the titans of finance.
I read your editorial in the Aug. 18, 2008 Modern Healthcare (“Wrong turn in patient care,” p. 20) with some interest. You mention our hospital prominently in that editorial. I suspect we were mentioned because of the New York Times...
Banner Health, Phoenix, made immediate leadership changes as a result of its $316 million purchase of Sun Health, Sun City, Ariz., which was completed Sept. 2. Dave Cheney, 51, is now CEO of Banner Boswell Medical Center (formerly Sun Health...
Robert Casalou was selected to fill a newly created position as president and CEO of three of the four hospitals in Ann Arbor, Mich.-based St. Joseph Mercy Health System, part of Trinity Health. Casalou, 49, was formerly president of...
Oktoberfest is already under way in Munich and what better way for Outliers to celebrate it than to discuss the advantages of beer in the healthcare industry? Excuse us while we don our lederhosen and fill our stein.
