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Based in Alpharetta, Ga., group purchasing organization and healthcare finance consultancy MedAssets has a 500-employee facility in Saddle River, N.J., an area that found itself in the bull's-eye of superstorm Sandy in October.
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As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act moves forward, healthcare providers will need to pay increasing attention to prevention. John O'Brien, president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass., believes that means building stronger ties with institutions' surrounding...
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The philanthropic work of J.R. Thomas, CEO of MedSynergies, has benefited everyone from military families, to aspiring healthcare professionals to the healthcare industry in general throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
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Nathan Adelson Hospice in Las Vegas takes care of its own—and its community.
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The healthcare system and the dedicated people who work in the field are essential to a vigorous, prosperous and happy community. That's a given. What's also a given is that many of the people who are inspired to work in the field are also driven to improve their communities in activities away from...
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The Itasca Project, an 8-year-old employer-led civic alliance in the Twin Cities that focuses on quality of life, has brainstormed and implemented initiatives to improve outcomes such as education, job opportunities, public safety and healthy lifestyles.
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Not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems hauled in a record $8.9 billion in donations in fiscal 2011, but fundraisers still face pressure to find more donors as various income streams dry up.
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U.S. not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems received $8.9 billion in donations in fiscal 2011, an 8.2% increase from the previous year before, according to a report from the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.
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Imagine a hospital where the ICU's myriad devices seamlessly exchange data and where a patient's loss of dignity is viewed as a preventable harm on the same order as a fall or a bloodstream infection.
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Outliers was, to borrow a Britishism, gobsmacked to find that a showpiece segment of the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games celebrated … healthcare. Dancing nurses and doctors, children bouncing on beds. All in tribute to the National Health Service. During the segment, the...
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