An explosion at a fertilizer plant Wednesday night in the small Texas city of West has forced area hospitals to ramp up their crisis management plans.
Leadership & Management
For the past several years, the United States has not been the only country to face a recession. Many parts of Europe have also undergone an economic crisis, especially Greece, and an article in today's American Journal of Public Health…
On Thurs., April 18, three panelists at a session hosted by the Chicago Health Executives Forum discussed the state of healthcare for uninsured and underinsured patients and how the delivery system with adapt to an influx of newly insured patients…
As the nation places more scrutiny on transparency in healthcare, pressure for providers make clinical outcomes and prices more visible and easy-to-understand grows by the day. Where do consumers' dollars go? Why do procedures vary in cost so widely, even…
On Thurs., April 18, healthcare supply chain experts from three Chicago-area health systems shared best practices for managing the clinical supply chain in a panel at an educational program hosted by the Chicago Health Executives Forum.
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Memorial Medical Center in Modesto, Calif., gave layoff notices to 39 employees in its business office yesterday, according to a Modesto Bee report.
Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said the sobering events from 9/11 are part of the reason why it appears every person who was wounded but alive at the Boston Marathon at the time…
George B. Hernandez Jr., JD, serves as president and CEO of University Health System in San Antonio, Texas. University Health System is comprised of University Hospital, a non-profit HMO, a non-profit multi-specialty physician practice and joint ownership of San Antonio…
Mike Buongiorno is CFO of Main Line Health, the parent company of Bryn Mawr (Pa.) Hospital and three other Pennsylvania acute-care hospitals. In his role, Mr. Buongiorno oversees the health system's $1.7 billion in annual revenues.
Reading (Pa.) Health System laid off 210 employees yesterday and is eliminating another 181 jobs through attrition, according to a Reading Eagle report.