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Norton Healthcare, Louisville, Ky., has become the latest system to require its employees to get flu vaccines.
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The new joint venture formed by Norton Healthcare and LifePoint Hospitals is in the process of leasing 25-bed Scott Memorial Hospital in Scottsburg, Ind., according to a news release.
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Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt of a full transcript of an Oct. 12 editorial webcast, “Making the Connection,” conducted by Modern Healthcare.
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About a year into their formal collaboration, Norton Healthcare and Humana are beginning to see benefits of their accountable care organization.
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Hospital workers spend more time and money on healthcare than other American workers, a Thomson Reuters study revealed.
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Back in 2005, Norton Healthcare of Louisville, Ky., made a bold decision to publish its performance on every nationally accepted quality measure from any source: the CMS, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Joint Commission, professional medical societies, the National Quality...
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One year into an accountable care organization, Norton Healthcare and Humana officials can point to results—which is more than anyone expected at the outset. As hospitals, medical groups and commercial insurers grapple with how to launch an accountable care network and Medicare officials...
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Norton Healthcare, Louisville, Ky., has settled allegations of Medicare overbilling by paying $782,842 to the federal government, prosecutors announced.
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DALLAS—Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Dallas opened March 26. The 467,000-square-foot outpatient facility, part of Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, is designed to offer comprehensive services from initial diagnosis through post-recovery, according to a Baylor...
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Norton Healthcare, Louisville, Ky., has been chosen to receive the 2011 NQF Quality Healthcare Award from the National Quality Forum. Now in its 18th year, the award, given in partnership with Modern Healthcare, recognizes organizations that have improved quality through public reporting,...
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