Hospital chief executive officers might dream of receiving a sharp salute from their employees and having their orders carried out the moment they are spoken, but Lt. Col. Jessie Tucker III says running an Army hospital isn’t that easy.
Modern Healthcare is tracking state and national proposals to expand access to health benefits for the uninsured and underinsured. The magazine has created a new section on Modern Healthcare Online called “Legislating Access.” The section,...
Charles S. Lauer, longtime publisher of Modern Healthcare, announced his retirement effective Feb. 2. Lauer, 76, currently is the magazine’s vice president of publishing and editorial director, a title he assumed in February 2005 with the...
President Bush’s 2008 budget proposal will request new funds to support a “rapid-learning” healthcare system that uses data from electronic health records to accelerate clinical research, according to Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for...
CMS’ proposed regulation on long-term acute-care hospital payments also would revise payments for teaching hospitals. The proposal would require teaching hospitals pay at least 90% of the total costs of training residents in the nonhospital setting.
Modern Healthcare is tracking state and national proposals to expand access to health benefits for the uninsured and underinsured. The magazine has created a new section on Modern Healthcare Online called “Legislating Access.” The section,...
A powerful wave of corporate transparency finally capsized the Healthcare Research & Development Institute, the secretive for-profit think tank that brought together top executives from some of the country’s most elite hospitals with leaders of many...
The Federation of American Hospitals sharply criticized the Joint Commission last week for not using National Quality Forum-endorsed practices for three of the commission’s six proposed 2008 patient-safety goals.
HCA made its move last summer, and now Health Management Associates is charting a different course toward the same goal: placating shareholders while delivering bad news about future operations.
Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas, will unload another Philadelphia-area hospital, saying it has agreed to sell 181-bed Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, to the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia’s largest hospital systems have banded together to legally challenge a small provision tucked into the Deficit Reduction Act that they say will cost them untold dollars and dissuade Medicaid managed-care plans from doing business with...
In yet another grab from the private equity market for a piece of healthcare, Cardinal Health said it will sell its pharmaceutical technologies and services business to the Blackstone Group for approximately $3.3 billion in cash.
Two health systems won separate awards for quality and community service last week. HealthPartners, Bloomington, Minn., was named winner of the National Quality Healthcare Award from the National Quality Forum, and Memorial Healthcare System,...
At most hospitals, the “golden hour” describes those precious 60 minutes after a serious injury when emergency medical care can make the difference between life and death.
Hospital chief executive officers might dream of receiving a sharp salute from their employees and having their orders carried out the moment they are spoken, but Lt. Col. Jessie Tucker III says running an Army hospital isn’t that easy.
Jack Bovender, a longtime HCA executive who has been the for-profit hospital chain’s chief executive officer since 2001, isn’t sure why he is being singled out for honors now, but he thinks it may have to do with helicopters. It was Bovender who...
Diane Peterson, winner of an American College of Healthcare Executives 2007 Gold Medal Award, has seen a lot of hospitals. She often tours them from a gurney or a wheelchair.
In the 1987 movie “The Untouchables,” Sean Connery plays a veteran Chicago Irish cop known as Malone who winds up as reluctant mentor to Treasury agent Eliot Ness, portrayed by Kevin Costner. Ness burns to end Al Capone’s reign of terror, but lacks...
In his State of the Union address, President Bush joined several states and a broad coalition of national health organizations in calling for new initiatives to reduce the number of uninsured in the U.S. Could we really be close to creating a plan...
The backers of a new plan to give doctors free software to induce them to write electronic prescriptions are selling the plan as a way to convince the public and doctors that using e-prescriptions is good medicine; unfortunately, they neglect to...
The American Medical Group Association, which represents most of the nation’s biggest and best-known medical groups, will try to convince Congress that its members should be paid extra for their sizable investments in information technology and...
Patient advocates are crying foul over a first-of-its-kind coverage policy instituted by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee—one that requires seriously obese members to undergo intelligence testing before being approved for bariatric...
