An arid-like landscape continues to creep across vast sections of the country. But this phenomenon isn't tied to climate change, it's a cultural and professional one known as a surgical desert.
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Boulder, Colo., may have more hospital capacity than it needs, but that did not stop construction of a replacement for Boulder Community Hospital with just as many beds as before.
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Attorneys for the Federal Trade Commission have filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to stop the acquisition of a hospital in southwest Georgia by the public body that owns the healthcare provider's only competitor, Phoebe Putney Health System.
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The Massachusetts Public Health Council approved the merger between the Lahey Clinic, a 327-bed hospital in Burlington, Mass., and Northeast Health System, Beverly, Mass.
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Cigna, the Bloomfield, Conn.-based insurance company, has launched what it is calling a “collaborative accountable care” initiative with Fairfax (Va.) Family Practice Centers, a physician-owned and operated medical group with more than 100 doctors practicing in 12 locations.
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Former CMS Administrator Dr. Donald Berwick will continue his work in public policy as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, the organization announced.
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Five nurses employed by a Philadelphia hospice company are accused of taking part in a multiyear fraud scheme, the U.S. Justice Department announced. Authorities say nurses with Home Care Hospice participated in the alleged fraud from January 2005 through December 2008, according to the indictment.
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Boulder, Colo., may have more hospital capacity than it needs, but that did not stop construction of a replacement for Boulder Community Hospital with just as many beds as before.
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A House-passed measure to overhaul malpractice law and nix a controversial Medicare cost-cutting board faces formidable hurdles from both the Senate and the Obama administration.
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The House of Representatives this week will vote on a budget resolution that experts say is more important to providers for what it portends after this year's election cycle than for any changes in the short term.
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Forming a group purchasing organization may reduce supply costs for Ascension Health and the GPO's membership, but the decision is not likely to lead to a new crop of hospital-owned GPOs.
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The unsuccessful takeover attempt Community Health Systems waged to acquire Tenet Healthcare Corp. became one of the uglier hostile merger bids in the hospital space.
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The circus-like atmosphere about to take over Washington during the U.S. Supreme Court's consideration of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act got an early start last week as Democrats touted the law and Republicans continued to break it apart.
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The Supreme Court decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is not expected to affect the credit outlooks of healthcare companies, analysts at ratings agencies said.
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Upheaval—be it political, legal, social, personal or financial—became the overarching theme of discussions in hallways and conference rooms last week during the American College of Healthcare Executives' annual meeting in Chicago.
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Alfredo is caught in the middle. He lives in Los Angeles County with his wife and two children; next door is his mother, who suffers from dementia. His wife works part time at JCPenney and gets a small stipend each month to help with his mom, who needs around-the-clock care. But that stipend goes...
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Can the community organizing tactics that empowered migrant farm workers in the 1970s and helped elect President Barack Obama in 2008 empty out America's overloaded emergency departments?Six physicians-turned-organizers are working in Columbia, S.C., to find out.
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Post-acute experts are making the case that nursing home specialists are the change agents who will improve the care of skilled-nursing facility residents—and lower rehospitalization rates.
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An arid-like landscape continues to creep across vast sections of the country. But this phenomenon isn't tied to climate change, it's a cultural and professional one known as a surgical desert.
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For resource-strapped rural hospitals, measuring surgical quality is critical not only for spurring improvement efforts but also for retaining local patient populations.
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“One of the most promising cost-control measures in the new healthcare law is an entity called the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB. To be launched in 2015, IPAB will have the authority, if growth in healthcare costs exceeds a certain target, to recommend changes to the Medicare...
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In response to pressures from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the private insurance market, most healthcare organizations are reorganizing and restructuring their clinical business models. And while not every provider seeks accountable care organization status, most expect to be...
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While I agree that it is frustrating to see excellent Catholic healthcare facilities losing opportunities to serve the needs of all, regardless of their faith (which has been their tradition for centuries or millennia), it is also frustrating that many still do not understand the fundamental issues...
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A list of all 50 states ranked by total number of hospital discharges based on 2010 Medicare cost report data. Source: American Hospital Directory. Published March 26, 2012, p. 34.
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Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons department of psychiatry chairman, has been chosen president-elect of the 36,000-member American Psychiatric Association. Lieberman, 64, also is psychiatrist-in-chief at the Columbia University Medical Center...
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The Veterans Affairs Department is asking for help from a rock star as well as the Housing and Urban Development Department to promote the creation of a new mobile information technology application to benefit homeless veterans.
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“One does not place anything into cyberspace one would not wish to have stenciled large on the skin of the Met Life blimp,” was the advice offered by Chicago radio journalist Dave McBride in a March 2002 letter to Chicago media columnist Robert Feder. Ten years later, it's a lesson that...
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Outliers, we must confess, loves trivia and factoids. So we were fascinated to run across a Bloomberg story with a rather startling statistic: The National Health Service in the United Kingdom is the world's fourth-largest employer, behind only the Chinese Army, Indian Railways and Wal-Mart...
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