The English author Samuel Johnson famously said that when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. If he were alive now, Dr. Johnson surely would say that if you were bored by 2008, you are bored by life.
There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are more than a 100 ways to reform healthcare, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which last week laid out scores of ideas as a way to help federal lawmakers craft what could become the...
It’s emblematic of 2008 that as the year closes, we learn that one of the most respected figures on Wall Street reportedly ran a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
Bay Area transplant surgeon Hootan Roozrokh was acquitted of a felony charge that he faced for allegedly trying to hasten a donor’s death with painkillers in order to salvage the organs.
United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger said the union would attempt to remove wage and benefit concessions that President Bush attached to $17.4 billion in loans made available to General Motors and Chrysler from the federal Troubled Asset...
There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are more than a 100 ways to reform healthcare, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which last week laid out scores of ideas as a way to help federal lawmakers craft what could become the...
The Congressional Budget Office’s report last week on the estimated costs of various health reforms includes a number of analyses of health information technology. Those analyses are likely to play a big role in efforts to pass health IT legislation...
Despite published guidelines to help hospitals establish anti-microbial stewardship programs, some still have not created the formal programs that manage the use of antibiotics in admitted patients, according to a new survey.
Findings within two adverse-event reports released last week by HHS’ inspector general’s office spell out what the field already knows but do not offer plans for implementing practices that will lead to effective change, industry experts say.
A new study says the boom in convenient-care clinics appears to be slowing, and this could have negative implications for the people most likely to use them: the uninsured and Hispanics.
Two recent studies show physicians may be moving closer to using CT scans to diagnose coronary blockages, but the technology still has a way to go before clinicians and insurers can allow the less costly, noninvasive imaging technique to replace...
More than a dozen healthcare luminaries are confirmed presenters at Modern Healthcare’s Leadership Forum: Transforming Healthcare through Clinical Informatics. The Leadership Forum, which offers an opportunity for senior-level healthcare...
Modern Healthcare is seeking nominations for its third biennial Top 25 Women in Healthcare recognition program, honoring those female healthcare executives who are making a positive difference in the industry. The magazine is seeking nominees...
The alleged Ponzi scheme orchestrated by money manager Bernard Madoff has done little reported damage to healthcare provider investors. But the New Yorker’s arrest has underscored the risks behind opaque investments increasingly found in hospital...
The Justice Department’s case against former executives of the defunct National Century Financial Enterprises ended last week when a jury acquitted the seventh former official to face criminal trial.
Some things about running a hospital in Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan or Tanzania aren’t so different from running a hospital in San Diego, which Richard Keyser had done for nine years before venturing abroad.
The English author Samuel Johnson famously said that when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. If he were alive now, Dr. Johnson surely would say that if you were bored by 2008, you are bored by life.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who made healthcare reform a key component of his campaign, defies the odds to win the Democratic nomination for president and the November general election. His win caps a nearly two-year campaign in which he defeated an...
The year is marked by trouble for hospital mergers and acquisitions. The Federal Trade Commission successfully tanks the acquisition of Prince William Hospital in Manassas, Va., by five-hospital Inova Health System, Falls Church, Va. In May, the FTC...
The economic meltdown takes its toll on the normally recession-resistant healthcare industry. The stock market’s huge drop hammers for-profit chains’ securities along with those of the rest of the market.
Despite all the talk about patient safety in recent years, progress remains slow. The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports that the overall rate of patient-safety improvement has remained flat, around 1% in the past few years.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.—Not-for-profit health systems Bon Secours Richmond (Va.) Health System, and Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, Va., agreed to collaborate on a 200-bed hospital project and other hospital-related services on their respective outpatient...
As fiscal pressures cause lawmakers to ponder new hospital taxes and deep Medicaid cuts, the City Council of Columbus is giving a local hospital $15 million in tax breaks.
OAKLAND, Calif.—A new not-for-profit center dedicated to telehealth adoption in California is launching Jan. 1, 2009, and will be led by the former director of the state’s Health Care Services Department. The California Center for Connected Health...
ALIQUIPPA, Pa.—Commonwealth Medical Center closed, according to a hospital spokeswoman. The Pennsylvania Health Department revoked Commonwealth’s license after the hospital alerted officials it planned to close effective Dec. 12, the agency said in...
It’s emblematic of 2008 that as the year closes, we learn that one of the most respected figures on Wall Street reportedly ran a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
Assuming that campaign proposals translate into government policy, the incoming administration and Congress will establish a new public health insurance plan that provides “the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.”...
What a disgrace that a well-educated hospital executive would just do something like this (“Former City of Angels hospital exec pleads guilty to paying kickbacks,” Late News, Dec. 15, p. 4, and Modern Healthcare Online, Dec. 12). It’s beyond words...
This is my last column in this great magazine, and, consequently, I find it difficult to say the things I want to share with all of you who’ve been so kind and generous to me over the years.
Kettering Health Network, Dayton, Ohio, created the new position of president and filled it with Fred Manchur, who has been president of the system’s Kettering (Ohio) Medical Center for the past eight years. Frank Perez, 65, will continue to...
Medical Mutual of Ohio made interim appointments to fill the void created when Kent Clapp, the insurer’s chairman, president and CEO, died in a small-plane crash in Puerto Rico Dec. 3. Charles Bryan, 62, a retired senior vice president...
Novation, Irving, Texas, appointed Jody Hatcher president and CEO, effective immediately. Hatcher, 42, has been serving as the company’s interim president since October, when he replaced Joellyn Willis, 47, who left to pursue other...
Nearly a year to the day after the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, or AAPS, filed a lawsuit against the Texas Medical Board, one of the lawsuit’s defendants resigned as president of the Texas board, while another defendant was...
