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Mercy Hospital Grayling (Mich.) has eliminated 24 full-time positions and will leave an additional 11 positions vacant, according to an Up North Live report.
Pittsburgh-based health insurer and hospital manager Highmark has laid off 100 health plan employees, bringing the company's total job losses to 520 within the past eight months, according to a Times Leader report.
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Effective May 1, Dayton (Ohio) Children's Hospital will no longer sell sugary drinks, including soda and sports drinks, at all of its locations.
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The Association of American Medical Colleges has developed a list of 25 "guiding principles" to help hospital leaders assess commercial ranking systems, such as those from Healthgrades and U.S. News & World Report.
Increasingly, hospitals are getting into the urgent care space, and, according to research from Merchant Medicine, the top hospitals owned 573 urgent care clinics across the country. The top private urgent care operators, on the other hand, owned 1,201 clinics…
The following stories about hospital and health system strategy have attracted a healthy number of readers since the start of the year.
Hospitals are at risk when a key surgery department director or manager leaves, but companies such as Surgical Directions can help bridge the gap with permanent and interim directors.