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Leadership & Management
Wiregrass Medical Center, a 67-bed hospital in Geneva, Ala., has laid off 26 full-time employees and other part-time workers and also cut salaries of staff members making at least $10 per hour, according to a Dothan Eagle report.
Washington (Pa.) Health System has outsourced its medical transcription services to Clear Choice Transcriptions, affecting nine employees, according to an Observer-Reporter report.
The elusive but important contact: the C-suite executive
Grand View Hospital and Health Foundation in Sellersville, Pa., is home to one of the more unique governance structures in today's healthcare landscape: Its president and CEO, CIO, CMO, CNO and chair of the board are all women.
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Baylor Medical Center at Garland (Texas) is closing its labor and delivery unit, which will lead to 47 layoffs, according to a Dallas Business Journal report.
This article briefly outlines some of our observations on five key sectors for 2014. Each of these sectors plays a specific and interesting role in healthcare, and each one is attracting a lot of interest from the healthcare investment community.
It's hard to turn on the TV, open a newspaper, read an industry blog or even talk to a colleague without being reminded that the healthcare industry has sailed off the edge of the map as we know it and…
Sherman-based Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital-WNJ has announced plans to cut 18 positions, according to a KTEN report.
Financial challenges have ranked as hospital CEOs' number one concern for the past decade, according to the American College of Healthcare Executives' most recent annual survey on issues facing hospitals.