Less than two months after joining Instagram, a popular photo-sharing site, Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care has more than 670 followers. Stephanie Johnson, Advocate's director of public affairs, isn't surprised.
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Fayette County Memorial Hospital in Washington Court House, Ohio, is laying off eight employees, according to a Fayette Advocate report.
Crittenton Hospital Medical Center in Rochester Hills, Mich., has eliminated 24 full-time-equivalent positions, but did not specify how many employees were affected, according to a report by The Detroit News.
Belleville, Ill.-based Memorial Hospital and Memorial Medical Group are laying off 14 staff members, according to a Belleville News-Democrat report.
St. Louis-based SSM Health Care is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of employees, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.
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Hospitals have long been criticized as inefficient, but two recent studies have shot some holes in this traditional critique, according to a column Peter Orszag wrote for Bloomberg.
There's palpable frustration among many department chairs, chief medical officers, medical directors and chiefs of staff. Compared to the several years they spent in medical school and clinical practice, many physician executives may feel underqualified to lead, according to a…
Tufts Medical Center in Boston is currently without a permanent CEO, is not searching for a new one and has no plans to do so in the near future, according to a Boston Business Journal report.
Pawtucket-based Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island has laid off seven employees, including two top executives, who were not named, according to a Providence Journal report.
About 12 employees at College Station (Texas) Medical Center will be laid off or transferred to other positions, according to a report by The Eagle.