State University of New York officials have proposed vast changes to SUNY Downstate Medical Center to salvage the financially beleaguered, three-hospital academic medical center in Brooklyn as well as other hospitals in the borough, according to a Wall Street Journal…
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One of the challenges of continuing to improve quality is spreading success organization-wide, according to an Institute for Healthcare Improvement "Safety First Blog" post.
Columbia University in New York City has announced a partnership with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention to open a research laboratory for pathogen discovery.
The pace of healthcare development is on the rise again after two years of declining construction starts. The long-term trend — hospitals and healthcare networks expanding to meet the needs of an aging U.S. population — was disrupted in recent…
Fewer childbirths and reductions in reimbursement are forcing Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton, Ill., to close its women's health unit, according to a News Tribune report.
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Healthcare delivery in the United States is on the cusp of major change, and many experts believe how healthcare is provided and paid for will be significantly different in the next decade. Hopefully, the changes will result in higher quality…
Richard "Chip" Davis, PhD, has served as president of Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., since July 2012.
While all hospital and health systems were hit by Medicare reimbursement cuts from the sequester, academic medical centers and teaching hospitals are hit extra hard — many academic medical centers rely heavily on Medicare, and reductions in graduate medical education…
Hospital and health system CEOs face a variety of challenges throughout their careers, but some challenges loom larger or taught more valuable lessons than others.Here, four hospital and health system CEOs share some of the biggest challenges they have faced…
According to the National Climatic Data Center, over 1,200 tornados touch down in the United States every year. Many of these tornados are not strong enough to cause significant damage, but that ones that are often leave extreme damage in…