Four major healthcare organizations launched 990forhospitals.org "to promote accurate and standardized reporting” to the Internal Revenue Service of hospitals’ subsidized aid to communities, including...
Top performers in the third year of the CMS’ hospital pay-for-performance demonstration project said that the key to success has been getting all clinical staff on board with the idea, and showing a strong commitment to quality at the top.
A fight for authority between physician and hospital groups continued to escalate as doctors contemplated taking a strong stance against hospitals’ apparent bid for more oversight of medical staff bylaws.
New requirements under the Joint Commission’s 2009 National Patient Safety Goals unveiled last week will help ensure hospitals are holding themselves accountable for infection control, hospital officials said.
Delegates at the American Medical Association’s 157th annual meeting last week tackled issues both weighty and light, with two items attracting more than their share of attention: the association’s dwindling relevance among physicians, and...
Results for what is likely the most comprehensive survey to date of physician adoption of electronic health-record systems finding that only 17% of physicians in ambulatory care have access to an EHR signal tough times ahead, the authors said.
Private equity might not be stalking public companies as aggressively as the firms did in 2006, but healthcare shows they are still capable of striking.
Experts say that increased demand for healthcare consulting services and the right kind of expertise has led to consolidation in this market, a trend that played out differently for three firms recently.
As Louisiana’s legislative session ends June 23, four recently passed mental-healthcare reform bills could provide some much-needed relief to the state’s hospitals and crowded emergency rooms.
Modern Healthcare is pleased to announce that Chicago reporter Melanie Evans has been promoted to bureau chief of our New York office effective July 1. Evans, 34, will cover healthcare finance and governance as well as general healthcare...
SSM Health Care’s largest regional system purged its hospitals’ top-tier management last week as part of a push to centralize operations and consolidate management.
Three of six association executives not previously reported in Modern Healthcare’s yearly compensation survey would have ranked in the list’s top half.
Plans for a $700 million, 10-story, 1.2 million-square-foot new hospital pavilion were approved by the University of Chicago board of trustees early this month. The UC Medical Center board had approved the plans last month. Developed by New...
You won’t find them on the front porch of rural hospitals, but swing beds—which have long been used to transition patients from acute to skilled-nursing care—help to fill a special niche for small hospitals in isolated areas.
Now that the Democrats have chosen Barack Obama as their presidential nominee, we know that during the next four months the airwaves will be filled with sound and images of Obama and Republican presidential nominee John McCain sparring over the...
The study on nurses’ workdays and time spent at the bedside seems misleading (“In high demand,” June 9, p. 10). Registered nurses are not the end-all of healthcare. Healthcare is collectively delivered by many players, including the chief nursing...
I’ve just finished reading a fascinating new book, Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care. It’s by John Nance, a lawyer, commercial pilot and aviation-safety analyst for “ABC World News.” Why is...
Sigmund Freud once opined that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” But to the American Medical Association Alliance, a public-health promotion arm of the AMA, cigar-smoking scenes in the new “The Incredible Hulk” movie are an abomination.
