Vanguard Health Systems news and information

GOP lawmakers are digging their teeth into the Obama administration's efforts to solicit help and donations for private groups working to enroll Americans in new coverage under the reform law.
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HCA, Nashville, today reported its final first-quarter results, adding a little more color on a performance it already previewed last month.
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Vanguard Health Systems knocked $12 million off the top end of its forecast for its current fiscal year after tallying lackluster earnings for the quarter ended March 31.
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Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville, has received a bit of good news out of Arizona after losing a Medicaid managed-care contract from the state that will cost it significant segment revenue.
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Mary Zuckerman, executive vice president of administrative services at the Detroit Medical Center, left the for-profit hospital system Friday in a restructuring that phased out her job, sources told Crain's Detroit Business.
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Publicly traded hospital systems weathered a volatile year with a buoyant run in the stock market—but financial results coming out of earnings season were more tempered.
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Roger Baker, who steered the Veteran Affairs Department's healthcare information technology development program toward an open-source model, is resigning. Since 2009, Baker has been an assistant secretary in the department with duties comparable to those of a chief information officer for...
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Detroit Medical Center announced that Rodney Huebbers is its new president and COO, effective Feb. 25.
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RegionalCare Hospital Partners, Brentwood, Tenn., named Kent Wallace, president and COO of Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville, its new CEO, effective March 1. Wallace will replace RegionalCare founder Martin Rash, who was promoted to executive chairman. Wallace will serve on the board...
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Incentive payments for electronic health records continued to rev up earnings reports last quarter, but the train may be slowing.
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