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The grim uncertainty that froze the healthcare construction industry during the Great Recession appears to have lifted—only to be replaced with a new type of uncertainty.
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A common theme links this year's inductees to Modern Healthcare's Health Care Hall of Fame. They are all innovators.
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For Dr. Denton Cooley, the world-renowned cardiovascular surgeon who performed the first successful human heart transplant in the U.S. and founded the Texas Heart Institute, there are countless stories that extol his accomplishments, inventions and honors over a 60-year career. And then there are...
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Consolidating hospitals and slashing a hospital's bed count were considered unusual decades ago in the once-sleepy world of the hospital industry. But Donald Wegmiller is one of the industry leaders who helped make such moves much more commonplace, and in the process helped to invent the integrated...
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In the late 1970s, shortly after giving up her post as head of the Catholic Hospital Association, Sister Mary Maurita Sengelaub didn't seek another position at the pinnacle of healthcare administration. Instead, she threw herself into a campaign to provide healthcare for seasonal farmworkers in...
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In addition to the three healthcare visionaries inducted into the Hall of Fame this year, 92 others have been inducted since its inception in 1988.Percy Allen IIInducted in 2011
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By early 2004, Eric Drew was supposed to die. His doctors thought he would. So did Richard Gibson, who was an employee at the Seattle cancer treatment center where Drew had been a leukemia patient since the prior September.
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In Modern Healthcare's quest to track the health information technology zeitgeist, our annual Modern Healthcare/Modern Physician Survey of Executive Opinions...
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What's hot in healthcare information technology? A lot.
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The national spending spree on health information technology could run full bore for a few more years, according to participants in this year's Modern...
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