Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Wash., is one of those rare hospitals that doesn't lose money on Medicare patients. Providence breaks even on them, even though its regional payor for Medicare pays about $1,000 less per enrollee than the…
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After a bankruptcy filing in 2007 and a three-year financial struggle, Doctors Hospital in Shreveport, La. has closed, according to a report in the Shreveport Times.
There is a "growing consensus" that tighter clinical integration of hospitals and physicians is necessary, but there are different kinds of integration and the approach faces legal barriers, according to a new report by the American Hospital Association.
The board of regents for UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has approved plans to build a new university hospital to replace the center's current facility, according to a report by the Dallas Morning News.
The International Anesthesia Research Society announced 10 grant recipients in 2009, committing over $1 million to anesthesia research and other projects that will advance the specialty of anesthesiology, according to an IARS news release.
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Whether or not broad-based healthcare reform is enacted in the near future, provider payment reform that encourages integration of healthcare delivery has bipartisan support but faces hurdles, said several speakers at a recent National Health Policy Conference co-sponsored by AcademyHealth…
Oneida (N.Y.) Healthcare Center received a $123,000 donation from the hospital's auxiliary, which will go towards $3 million the hospital is trying raise to help with an $18 million capital project, according to a report in The Oneida Daily Dispatch.
BayCare Health System has opened 108-bed St. Joseph's Hospital-North in Lutz, Fla., just north of Tampa, according to a release from BayCare.
After walking away from negotiations to buy land for a new hospital in Marble Falls, Texas, Scott & White Healthcare announced that has about a dozen other potential sites in the area, according to a report by the Austin Statesman.
The following quality improvement activities for office-based anesthesia are recommended by the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Ambulatory Surgical Care and the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia's Committee on Office Based Anesthesia.