Architects and designers are still putting the finishing design touches on the new Boca Raton Community Hospital, a 530-bed teaching facility that will rise from a 38-acre site in the heart of the wealthy resort community in South Florida. But this...
Revised Census Bureau figures show that in 2005, 44.8 million people, or 15.3% of the population, were without health insurance—about 1.8 million fewer than the bureau reported in August 2006. The original 2005 estimate was 46.6 million or about...
Among the 24 directors and top executives of Triad Hospitals, 18 of them will collect more than $1 million on their equity-based compensation if Community Health Systems completes its $6.8 billion acquisition.
The American Hospital Association’s proposal for tackling healthcare reform lacks the specific recommendations found in many of the plans being floated around Capitol Hill and across the nation. But the lack of detail is designed to increase the...
In separate but nearly identical agreements that offer the unusual option of vouchers rather than cash refunds to patients who were allegedly overbilled for medical services, two Minneapolis health systems settled class-action lawsuits related to...
The end of West Texas Hospital in Abilene could be the beginning of another round pitting Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) against proponents of physician-owned hospitals.
A major flu pandemic could increase revenue for the healthcare industry, but would be very costly for hospitals to prepare for, a new report from the Trust for America’s Health concluded.
Architects and designers are still putting the finishing design touches on the new Boca Raton Community Hospital, a 530-bed teaching facility that will rise from a 38-acre site in the heart of the wealthy resort community in South Florida. But this...
In a year in which the nation’s 46.6 million uninsured people have re-emerged at the forefront of the national political landscape, it is troubling that Medicaid, the healthcare safety net for some 55 million Americans, is under increasing stress.
Regarding Michael Romano’s Reporter’s Notebook (“A gadfly in the ointment at AMGA,” at modernhealthcare.com): In my experience, medical groups offer more opportunity for peer review and discussion on patients’ clinical needs than solo physician...
Everybody I know likes a good laugh. Healthcare may be a serious business, but people in the field have a good sense of humor. I know, having endured my share of ribbing and practical jokes.
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