Total compensation for the CEOs of Indianapolis' four largest health systems grew between 15 percent and 53 percent from 2008 to 2010, according to an Indianapolis Star report.
Compensation Issues
Compensation of hospital CEOs and other top hospital executives, especially at non-profit organizations, is undergoing mass amounts of scrutiny, thanks in part to the new federal standards that require transparency of all tax-exempt organizations.
HCA CEO Richard Bracken's total compensation for 2011 was valued at $5.7 million, down roughly 85 percent from $38.2 million in 2010, according to a news release by the hospital operator.
Of the top 25 highest-salaried employees in Maryland, 23 work at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and its affiliated University of Maryland Medical Center, according to a report from the Maryland Reporter.
San Ramon (Calif.) Regional Medical Center and its registered nurses, represented by the California Nurses Association-National Nurses United, have agreed on a new contract that will give the nurses at 10.5 percent raise over three years, according to an Oakland…
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Local anesthesia services would be folded into Willmar Medical Services, a four-year-old joint venture between Rice Memorial Hospital and Affiliated Community Medical Centers, if the Rice hospital board approves the proposal, according to a West Central Tribune report.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that physicians cherish their phones. A 2010 study revels that 94 percent of physicians are now using smartphones professionally, and this number has only escalated in the past year.
The Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West submitted more than 15,300 signatures to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters in the hopes of adding a measure to November's ballot that would limit the salaries of executives at El…
A recent study in Anesthesia & Analgesia found that while 80 percent of anesthesiologists have been involved in an adverse event, and 70 percent experienced some sort of guilt or anxiety even if the event was unpreventable, most hospital and…
Pam Maples, former CEO of St. John's Medical Center in Jackson, Wyo., is currently making $25,000 per month as a consultant as part of her early retirement package with the hospital, but she has not yet provided any "consulting services"…