The hospital pharmacy typically accounts for up to 15% of a hospital's annual operating costs, but is an often-overlooked resource for improving financial performance, increasing patient safety and satisfaction and reducing readmissions. The hospital pharmacist can be an effective yet…
Leadership & Management
The challenges of healthcare reformdue to the Affordable Care Act are forcing hospitals to look at cost effective ways of managing and improving patient care. Merging plays a significant role in providing a platform for hospitals to experiment with innovative…
Surgical procedures continue to migrate from the inpatient to outpatient setting. Hospitals eager to keep this case volume are more acquiring freestanding ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and often converting them into CMS-designated "provider-based departments," also referred to as hospital outpatient…
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald announced in a CBS "60 Minutes" interview that 35 staffers will be let go, with an additional 1,000 staffers' jobs on the line, for their roles in the capacity scandal that rocked the VA earlier…
Following the growing trend of hospitals and health systems focusing on convenient access for patients, Hartford, Conn.-based Saint Francis Care has opened a retail primary care clinic in a Stop & Shop supermarket in Simsbury, Conn.
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At the Becker's Hospital Review CEO Strategy Roundtable in Chicago on Nov. 5, Scott Dimmick, regional and market vice president of human resources for Cincinnati-based Mercy Health (formerly Catholic Health Partners); David P. McQuaid, executive vice president for clinical affairs…
At the Becker's Hospital Review CEO Strategy Roundtable in Chicago on Nov. 5, Thomas A. Flynn, vice president and chief compliance officer of Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center; Bruce A. Mettin, corporate compliance officer of Minot, N.D.-based Trinity Health; and…
At the Becker's Hospital Review CEO Strategy Roundtable in Chicago on Nov. 5, Daniel Morissette, CFO of Stanford (Calif.) Hospital and Clinics, Michael Allen, CFO of Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, Wis., Donald Longpre, CFO of North Ottawa Community…
At the Becker's Hospital Review CEO Strategy Roundtable in Chicago on Nov. 5, Paul Taylor, CEO of Ozarks Community Hospital in Springfield, Mo., discussed various survival techniques for community hospitals to persist in the face of competition and federal healthcare…