Aetna and Cleveland-based UniversityHospitals have launched an accountable care organization, which covers 22,000 Aetna members who receive care from UH physicians, according to a Cleveland Plain Dealer report.
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Gallipolis, Ohio-based Holzer Health System and Louisville, Ky.-based Humana have entered into an accountable care agreement aimed at improving health outcomes of Humana's Medicare Advantage members.
Tenet Healthcare Corp., based in Dallas, and Louisville, Ky.-based Humana have signed a new multi-year contract and are launching an accountable care organization for Humana's Medicare Advantage members in Atlanta.
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Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Fla., has four chillers cooling the facility, and all four must be fully functioning to properly cool the hospital. But in 2009, one of the 500-ton chillers suddenly failed.
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Plano-Texas based Community Hospital Corporation has added members to its post-acute care division, CHC ContinueCARE, in response to demand from hospitals looking to improve their performance in the space.
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Ann Arbor, Mich.-based St. Joseph Mercy Health System announced that it plans to invest $25 million in adding rooms to St. Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital in Howell, Mich., and establishing a short-stay inpatient unit at St. Joseph Mercy Brighton,…
Under a proposed rule change issued by CMS, as a part of the anticipated 2015 Physician Fee Schedule, the number of quality measures used to assess accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program would increase from 33 to…
After lowering its traditional emergency department capacity and shifting those beds to observation unit service, Newark, N.J.-based University Hospital has improved its patient capacity, according to a report from The Star-Ledger.