The Cleveland Clinic's unlikely partnership with Community Health Systems is supposed to marry the best of both worlds: an outcomes-driven academic medical center known for handling complex medical cases and the operational discipline of a large and successful investor-owned hospital chain. FULL STORY »
Funding cuts from the state of New York are expected to sock publicly funded hospitals, particularly SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which has less than five months before it could face insolvency. FULL STORY »
By Susan Chimonas, Frederica Stahl and David Rothman | February 22, 2013
| Print Magazine
No one has been more effective than Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in promoting transparency in medicine. From 2004 to 2010, he investigated undisclosed conflicts of interest between physicians and pharmaceutical and device companies. His findings helped lead to the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. FULL STORY »
The CMS on Thursday announced that more than 450 healthcare organizations will participate in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, a program created under the healthcare reform law. FULL STORY »
A list of the nation's 25 largest teaching hospitals, ranked by the total number of residents and interns based on Medicare cost report figures, 2011. Source: American Hospital Directory. Published: Jan. 21, 2013, p. 32. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks | October 30, 2012
| Basic Web
Patterns of care vary widely among 23 top U.S. academic medical centers, according to a new report. The report's authors suggest these variations may be something medical students want to weigh. FULL STORY »
By Burlington County (N.J.) Times | August 17, 2012
As incoming medical students put on their white coats for the first time this summer, Burlington County's newest physician trainees know they're entering a profession that's undergoing a major upheaval. FULL STORY »
The federal government spends more than $11.5 billion on graduate medical education—or about $100,000 for each of the 115,000 physicians in resident training—but questions on how much to spend and how to spend it are unanswered, according to an online Health Affairs FULL STORY »
Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus doubled at academic medical centers between 2003 and 2008, according to a study published in the August issue of the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. FULL STORY »
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