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Many hospitals that expect to see less from Medicare starting next month will spend less themselves under efforts to slash costs. Executives say they'll have no choice as pressure to curb healthcare spending grows.
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ISHPEMING, Mich.—LifePoint Hospitals, Brentwood, Tenn., forged its second deal in Michigan in less than a week as the company seeks to build a presence in the state's Upper Peninsula. The publicly traded system made its first purchase in Michigan last year when it acquired Marquette...
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Summa Health System, Akron, Ohio, and Catholic Health Partners, Cincinnati, have signed a letter of intent to form a strategic partnership.
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Lynn Detterman wasn't planning to leave her job as a staff accountant for a major firm in Cleveland. Yet something about the job opening as a financial operations manager at a mission-oriented hospital not far from her home town of New London, Ohio, appealed deeply to her.
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Investments delivered no returns last year for not-for-profit hospitals and health systems, one snapshot of the sector shows.
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Catholic Health Partners, Cincinnati, has hired Larry James as vice president and chief diversity officer.
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The decision to uphold most of the healthcare reform law lifted the cloud of uncertainty for many providers, except for those that treat large numbers of Medicaid patients.
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Three Roman Catholic health systems joined in the fight against HHS' final rules mandating insurance coverage for employee birth control—a legal battle that some observers called premature and others said was imperative.
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HCA, Nashville, named Peter Marmerstein to succeed Dan Miller as president of the company's west Florida division. Miller has held the role since 1998 but has announced his retirement, according to an HCA news release.
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Dr. Derek Robinson was hired as executive director of the Illinois Hospital Association's Quality Care Institute, effective March 1. He replaces Patricia Merryweather, who left the IHA last June to become executive director of Telligen, the quality improvement organization for...
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