Press Ganey Associates announced it has named Patrick T. Ryan as its new CEO, effective immediately.
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New York State had the greatest number of medical school graduates in 2011, according to recent statistics published by Kaiser State Health Facts.
Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System has received a $25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to test a treatment for acute ischemic stroke patients, according to a system news release.
Garett Jackson, CPA, currently serves as the chief financial officer of HCA's National Patient Account Services, a provider of early-out healthcare collection services based in Louisville, Ky. He started with the company a decade ago as controller and was quickly…
HCA has announced that Joseph A. Sowell III will become its senior vice president and chief development officer, effective Dec. 1, 2009, according to an HCA news release.
The Medical Group Management Association and the American College of Medical Practice Executives appointed new board members at the MGMA 2009 Annual Conference in Denver, according to an MGMA news release.
Tenet Healthcare Corp. has named Kelvin A. Baggett, MD, a former HCA executive, as senior vice president and CMO, according to release from Tenet.
Philip A. Pizzo, MD, dean of the school of medicine at Stanford University, has been named chair of the board of the Association of Academic Health Centers, according to a release from the association.
Joel Allison — Mr. Allison is president and CEO of Baylor Health Care System in Dallas. Mr. Allison's career includes almost 30 years in healthcare management. He joined Baylor in 1993 and served as Baylor's senior executive vice president and…
Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health & Human Services, announced the names of personnel leading the previously announced federal Office of Health Reform at HHS.