Pittsburgh-based Select International, a healthcare employee assessment firm, has launched a safety blog, featuring experts and educational content for leaders to improve the safety culture within their organizations.
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The "W"wordI'm a patient… you're a patient…we're all patients at one time or another. That means we have to wait. Waiting for a diagnosis, waiting for a test, waiting for results. Most people hate waiting, and your patients hate it…
Meeting Demand With Limited Resources: Q&A With South Nassau Communities Hospital CEO Richard Murphy
Richard J. Murphy took the reigns as president and CEO at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, N.Y., in January 2013. He joined SNCH from Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, N.Y., where he served as president and CEO.…
As Bill Walczak makes a run to become mayor of Boston, more details on his 14-month tenure and sudden resignation as president of Steward Health Care's Carney Hospital in Dorchester, Mass., are coming to light, according to a Boston Globe…
University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque has contracted a company to outsource medical transcriptionists, which will result in the layoffs of 57 employees, according to a KRQE report.
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Naples, Fla.-based hospital chain Health Management Associates has abandoned its pursuit of a license to build a hospital in south Lee County, yielding to Fort Meyers, Fla.-based Lee Memorial Health System's competing plan to open a new hospital on land…
In March, the healthcare sector represented one out of every nine U.S. jobs, an all-time high of 10.74 percent, according to a report from the Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending.
Louisiana State University's public hospital in Baton Rouge is scheduled to close Monday, according to an Advocate report.
SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania said it will file complaints with the National Labor Relations Board against University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for alleged unfair labor practices, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.