Community Hospital Corporation (CHC) is proud to announce Karen Barber, Chief Executive Officer of Yoakum Community Hospital, as the winner of the 2016 President's Leadership Excellence Award. Yoakum Community Hospital is a 25-bed, critical access hospital based in Yoakum, Texas.
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The following insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services is adding a 26-bed, 26,600-square-foot patient wing to its inpatient hospital.
Lake Mary, Fla.-based Axium Pharmacy, a subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Kroger, will acquire outstanding shares of Orlando-based ModernHealth to create a combined specialty pharmacy fully operated by Kroger.
The American Medical Association applauded the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuits against proposed Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana deals, stating decreased competition in the health insurance market would harm patients.
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Only about one-third of health insurers came out ahead in the Affordable Care Act marketplace in 2014, according to a study by the Commonwealth Fund.
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Mississippi has approved an interim management contract with Lifebrite Hospital Group for Pioneer Community Hospital of Stokes County in Danbury, N.C., that will enable the hospital to remain in service, reports Winston-Salem Journal.
Plainfield, Ill.-based Edward-Elmhurst Health opened a new health and immediate care center in Hinsdale, Ill., according to Edward-Elmhurst officials.
The Hawaii legislature voted Wednesday to override Gov. David Ige's veto of a bill that provides severance payments or pension benefits to public workers at three hospitals Kaiser Permanente is privatizing, reports Civil Beat.
Authorities were called to Atlantis, Fla.-based JFK Medical Center after hospital officials discovered a strange envelope in the building, according to WPTV.