Hospital systems across the country are pulling back on construction projects, keeping blue-prints on the drawing board, halting bulldozers and leaving completed facilities unopened.
A legal opinion plunged New Jersey’s ambulatory surgery centers into limbo last year and legislators committed themselves to fix a consequential but narrow issue. All of the interested parties came to the table—hospitals, insurers, physicians—and...
Have you hugged your employees lately? It might save you some money. That question comes to mind because of recent coverage of wellness programs and workplace health.
The Baylor College of Medicine said Peter Traber will step down as its president and chief executive officer on Dec. 1. William Butler, 76, chancellor emeritus at Baylor, will serve as interim president while the Houston college conducts a national...
HHS released the final rule governing the creation and operations of patient-safety organizations. Effective Jan. 19, 2009, organizations will have to certify they are in compliance with the guidelines in the rule to be designated a patient-safety...
Indiana’s Clarian Health will acquire Cardinal Health System Jan. 1, 2009, according to an agreement that completes a letter of intent announced in September. The Cardinal nameplate will be left behind as its two hospitals—326-bed Ball Memorial...
Slow payment appears to discourage physicians from seeing new Medicaid patients—even in states with relatively high Medicaid reimbursement—according to a Center for Studying Health System Change report posted online by the journal Health Affairs.
Hospital systems across the country are pulling back on construction projects, keeping blue-prints on the drawing board, halting bulldozers and leaving completed facilities unopened.
The worst of the credit crisis—to date—had not yet unfolded when Mountain States Health Alliance agreed to invest $132 million in an Abingdon, Va., hospital for an ownership stake.
Representatives for physician-owned hospitals say they are looking for signals from former Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle on how he might weigh in on ownership regulations as part of broader healthcare reform.
A draft bill issued last week to establish a value-based purchasing program is an early sign that Congress may be serious about healthcare reform under a new administration, yet the “rewards and penalties” system of this proposal may have unintended...
If the incoming Obama administration spent last week fueling up the healthcare reform train, then health plan lobby groups were trying to punch their tickets to ensure a seat onboard.
As results of its annual report indicate that hospitals still are not performing adequately in certain performance measurements, the Joint Commission has stepped in with targeted action recommendations for designing the hospital of the...
Local physicians were strongly in favor of a federal appeals court decision supporting a New Hampshire law that aims to block the use of data on physician and other clinician prescribing patterns for drug marketing.
When it opens in the spring of 2010, Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro, N.H., will have completed its largest building project in more than a century with a facility that is considerably larger than most critical-access hospitals.
A legal opinion plunged New Jersey’s ambulatory surgery centers into limbo last year and legislators committed themselves to fix a consequential but narrow issue. All of the interested parties came to the table—hospitals, insurers, physicians—and...
Have you hugged your employees lately? It might save you some money. That question comes to mind because of recent coverage of wellness programs and workplace health.
Medical homes have been touted by many as a means to both reinvigorate primary-care practices and significantly increase the quality of care while also controlling
In regard to the recent editorial in the Oct. 27 issue of Modern Healthcare (“Disrupting the disrupters,” p. 18), we would like to share some of the research findings of our work on disruptive behaviors over the past 10 years.
There’s lots of talk these days by consultants and human resources managers about treating employees just like customers should be treated. In other words, it’s all about giving employees the same sort of personal attention a customer should receive...
As the smallest in size and fourth-least densely populated states, respectively, Rhode Island and North Dakota don’t often find themselves leading the rest of the union. But both are in front of the pack when it comes to promoting the...
New technologies can bring new artwork. That's the message behind the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, with 1,500 contestants using microscopes to capture arresting images. Fourth place went to Albert Pan of Harvard University, for his...
In this age of electronic wonder, it was only a matter of time before kidnappers figured out a way to execute their crimes in cyberspace. Now it seems that the giant pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts along with millions of its customers have...
Amid the grim drumbeat of layoffs comes this bright note: The CMS is hiring. Are you supernaturally detail-oriented? Good at balancing competing demands? Able to foresee geometrically rippling consequences of your actions?
“When it gets rough out there, a lot of business leaders get out of the car and say, ‘We’re OK with minor reform.’ I’m challenging you today, we’re going to have to do big, serious things.”
