Care Coordination

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.

San Antonio-based Methodist Healthcare has reached an agreement to manage Val Verde County Regional Medical Center in Del Rio, Texas, according to a report by the San Antonio Business Journal.

The former 189-bed St. James Hospital, a Catholic facility in Newark, N.J., shuttered in 2008, will reopen as a health clinic in June, according to the Star-Ledger.

Knee or hip replacement patients who forego general anesthesia during surgery and instead receive pain-blocking medication recover more quickly and report less pain, according to the February issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter.

1. There are just over 32,900 anesthesiologists practicing in the United States. Anesthesiologists represent 5.2 percent of the 633,000 practicing physicians in the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09.

The U.S. representative for North Dakota said he will try to repeal a new CMS rule on physician oversight of routine healthcare services, according to a report from Big News Biz.