Edward Hospital & Health Services in Naperville, Ill., has opened a Second Opinion Clinic to help patients get second opinions for cancer and other conditions, according to a Sacramento Bee report.
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Bellevue Hospital in New York City has evacuated the remainder of its 375 patients after fuel pumps shorted out, rendering the hospital's generators inoperable in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, according to a New York Times report.
Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Alabaster, Ala., is experiencing increased emergency department volume since Chilton Medical Center in Clanton, Ala., closed Monday, according to an AL.com report.
Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., is planning a new children's specialty center in Brunswick, Ga., according to a Florida Times-Union report.
New York City hospitals have accepted patients from NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City following the hospital's evacuation due to flooding from Hurricane Sandy, according to an NBC News report.
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Baptist Health System and Methodist Healthcare System, both based in San Antonio, are seeing increased patient demand following San Antonio-based CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System's closure of adult emergency services at its downtown hospital, according to a San Antonio Business…
The Floating Hospital in Long Island City, N.Y., has opened its new Community Health Center at the Queensbridge Houses, a public housing development in Long Island City, according to a Gazette report.
Inova Loudoun Hospital in Leesburg, Va., announced the opening of two new services at its campus: the Inova Discharge Planning Clinic and the Inova Juniper Program.
CMS is currently testing programs of alternative models for payment, including gainsharing around bundled payments for episodes of care and accountable care organizations. Testing of these initiatives is meant to incentivize care redesign, engage and protect beneficiaries and diffuse best…
Traditionally, hospitals have thought as payors as competitors, or the enemy, says John Halamka, MD, senior vice president of information systems and CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. With mounting pressure from healthcare reform to coordinate patients'…