Johns Hopkins Health System news and information

Stuart Erdman, assistant treasurer and senior director of finance for John Hopkins Health System, will retire at the end of this year.
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The Obama administration and health policy experts have been touting last year's decline in Medicare 30-day hospital readmissions as evidence that delivery and payment reforms designed to prevent unnecessary repeat visits were starting to succeed.
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Dr. Gene Green was named president of Bethesda, Md.'s Suburban Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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Despite a recent challenge by a group of prominent health systems, the National Quality Forum's board of directors has voted to uphold its endorsement of an all-cause readmissions measure, developed by the CMS and researchers at Yale University.
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A group of eight large hospitals and health systems are taking the National Quality Forum to task, decrying its endorsement of a measure on readmissions and questioning its consensus-reaching process.
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Richard “Chip” Davis has been appointed president of Johns Hopkins Medicine's Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington beginning on July 6.
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Borrowing by hospitals directly from banks got a boost after the credit crisis but ballooned last year as hospitals look to reduce exposure to potentially volatile debt.
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The biggest players in the Kentucky hospital market are choosing up sides in an effort, they say, to gain the geographic scale and integration of care needed to improve health outcomes statewide and compete regionally. As befits the rivalries among these players, however, they are taking different...
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Dr. Joe Selby was named the first executive director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, an independent, not-for-profit organization created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide information on the effectiveness, benefits and harms of different...
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Dr. Edward Miller, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, said he intends to retire from his post as of June 30, 2012, according to a letter to employees from Ronald Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
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