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Leadership & Management
The healthcare payment landscape is dramatically changing. The traditional fee-for-service model is being abandoned in favor of alternative and value-based models. Pressure to reduce costs, while improving quality, is at an all-time high.
Putnam, Conn.-based Day Kimball Healthcare is implementing a number of job and budget cuts, according to a WFSB report.
Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Norfolk General Hospital recently marked 30 years as a Level I trauma center.
International businessman and philanthropist Hansjӧrg Wyss donated $20 million dollars to the NYU School of Medicine's Department of Plastic Surgery — one of the only fully-accredited, academic plastic surgery departments in the U.S.
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Athens (Ala.)-Limestone Hospital has eliminated 15 positions, according to a report from The News Courier.
Franciscan St. James Health, the Chicago arm of Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Alliance, has a sweeping reorganization plan for its two Chicago-area hospitals, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
A recent study found an unflattering association between the Master of Business Administration degree and self-serving behavior.
Louis R. Moffa, a former executive with Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua, died of end stage heart failure Sept. 27 at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., according to a report from The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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