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CLEVELAND—Healthcare leaders and local officials celebrated the completion of the Global Center for Health Innovation, a long-planned venue to showcase healthcare technology and ideas. Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald told about 400 invited guests to the Oct. 8 ceremony that the...
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In a series of leadership changes prompted by HCA CEO Richard Bracken's retirement at the end of this year, William Rutherford will become CFO and executive VP. Rutherford, 49, joined Nashville-based HCA in 1986 as a staff auditor and has served in a variety of roles, most recently as...
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Palos Community Hospital has named a Louisiana executive as its new CEO, replacing Sister Margaret Wright, who led the Chicago-area medical center for 30 years.
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According to one physicians group, healthcare reform is summed up as an epic experiment to see if access can be expanded and quality improved, at the same time, while curtailing costs. The majority of doctors are wary, at best. Those who run their own practice, a declining breed, wonder how much...
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SEATTLE—Anthony “Tony” Armada is leaving Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in suburban Chicago to become CEO on Nov. 1 of Swedish Health Services, the largest health system in Seattle. Armada, 53, has been president of Advocate Health's Park Ridge, Ill., teaching hospital...
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Someone gained unauthorized access to records of up to 1,800 people who were patients at UnityPoint Health hospitals, the company said today. West Des Moines-based UnityPoint, which used to be called Iowa Health System, operates hospitals and clinics throughout Iowa and in parts of Illinois.
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What it does: The company develops innovative cost-efficiency strategies for Medicaid managed-care plans, commercial healthcare programs as well as self-insured employers.
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What it does: Impact Advisors provides strategic advisory and implementation consulting services for healthcare information technology.
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The way Airica Steed sees it, there was never any doubt she would pursue a career in healthcare.Every woman in her family was a nurse, including her mother—a pediatric nurse and the person she calls her first role model. “I wanted to follow in her footsteps,” says Steed, 35.
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Raghuveer Nayak, the surgery center operator, political fundraiser and intermediary for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, is set to plead guilty to healthcare fraud charges today in federal court, the U.S. Attorney's office has announced.
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