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Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare, Memphis, Tenn., will build a 100-bed hospital in Olive Branch, Miss., after receiving a certificate of need from the Mississippi Health Department.
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Providing skilled, professional interpreters to patients whose first language is not English in emergency departments boosts patient satisfaction and could reduce wait times and lower the odds of medical error, according to the results of a new study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.Patients who were assigned an interpreter were four times as likely to report satisfaction with their ED visit as patients who did not, according to the study's authors.
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General acute-care hospitals will soon be required to report rates of certain types of healthcare-associated infections to the CMS using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's infection surveillance system.
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A bipartisan bill, the Electronic Health Record Incentives for Multi-Campus Hospitals Act, has been introduced that would allow hospitals that have more than one campus sharing a single Medicare provider number to receive a larger share of the subsidies for health information technology provided for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 stimulus law.
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A top Senate Republican continues to press newly minted CMS Administrator Don Berwick over possible conflicts of interest from his previous tenure as president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a Cambridge, Mass.-based think tank.
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Rehabilitation provider HealthSouth plans to add to its growing presence in Texas with the construction of a 40-bed hospital in northwest Houston, the Birmingham, Ala.-based company said.
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Senate Democrats are eyeing two healthcare-related provisions previously stripped from broader legislative packages. Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is expected to introduce a tweaked version of a tax-extenders package next week, which includes a temporary extension of higher federal Medicaid payments and a host of smaller Medicare measures already OK'd by the House.
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Tennessee Attorney General Robert Cooper Jr. said in a letter today that he will take no action on the $154.1 million sale of tax-exempt Sumner Regional Health Systems, Gallatin, Tenn., to investor-owned LifePoint Hospitals, Brentwood, Tenn. The attorney general's decision clears the way for the completion of the four-hospital system's sale. A judge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Nashville already gave his assent to the deal.
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Stand-alone Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg, Va., announced that it has signed a letter of intent to become part of eight-hospital Sentara Healthcare system, Norfolk, Va.
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The CMS will keep in place a 2.9% pay reduction to offset what it sees as overpayments made to hospitals under its new new coding system, according to a final payment rule.Taking that and other payment changes into account, payments made to the 3,500 acute care hospitals across the nation for fiscal 2011 beginning Oct. 1 will decline by 0.4%, or roughly $440 million, compared with fiscal 2010. The new reform law reduces payments by an expected 0.25%, but hospitals will receive a 2.6% inflationary increase.
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