Mendocino Coast District Hospital in Fort Bragg, Calif., has eliminated 20 positions from its workforce, according to a Fort Bragg Advocate-News report.
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The healthcare industry is undergoing massive, disruptive change. From boardrooms to bedsides, organizations are looking for ways to slow or reverse rising costs, understand the shifting consumer landscape and determine how to best position their organizations for the future. How…
Greenville (S.C.) Hospital System, the largest in the state, announced it has agreed to affiliate with CVS Caremark retail healthcare subsidiary MinuteClinic and will provide physician supervision for the clinic's nurse practitioners.
Mendocino Coast District Hospital — a 25-bed critical access hospital in Fort Bragg, Calif., that filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy this past fall — has laid off 20 employees, according to a Press Democrat report.
The healthcare industry is in the midst of a revolutionary upheaval reflecting the concerns of patients, payors, providers and policymakers over spiraling costs, lagging quality and lack of transparency. In this time of heightened sensitivity by all parties to the…
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Blood transfusions were the most frequently performed procedures during hospital stays in 2010, according to a statistical brief from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The Chicago Health Executives Forum held its 37th annual meeting yesterday in Chicago and a portion of the evening consisted of a panel discussion. Here are summaries of three panelists' discussions about what is happening at their healthcare organization or…
Overall healthcare employee confidence rose by 4.1 points to 57.5 in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the latest quarterly Randstad Healthcare Employee Confidence Index, a survey of 299 workers including physicians, healthcare administrators and other healthcare professionals.
John McCormick, CEO of Oak Valley Hospital in Oakdale, Calif., told board members the hospital may discontinue its six-bed maternity unit, displacing 20 staff positions, citing low Medicaid reimbursement and competition from larger hospitals, according to a report by KTXL-TV.
The National Labor Relations Board has set the date for a union election rerun for Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and its 43,500 employees on April 5, according to a Sacramento Business Journal report.