Leaders from Knoxville, Tenn.-based TeamHealth presented at the 10th annual "What's Right in Health Care" conference Oct. 10-12 held by Studer Group in Nashville, Tenn.
Leadership & Management
The following 20 hospitals were top performers in iVantage's Patient Perspectives Index, which rates hospital performance based on the percentile rank for two measures from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey — overall rating and percentage…
Strengthening leadership and perioperative systems helped increase surgical volume at a 289-bed quaternary hospital by 19 percent in two years, according to a Surgical Directions case study.
In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, JD, CPA, a partner at McGuireWoods in Chicago and publisher of Becker's Hospital Review, commented on a dozen of the most pressing issues facing hospitals and health systems…
Kaiser Permanente of Ohio, based in Cleveland, will lay off 58 employees by year's end as it tries to lower premiums for enrollees, according to a Plain Dealer report.
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University of California San Francisco Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital are planning to cut 300 full-time jobs to lower healthcare costs, according to a San Francisco Business Times report.
Knoxville, Tenn.-based Tennova Healthcare is eliminating 27 positions from its Physicians Regional Medical Center, also in Knoxville, according to a Knoxville News Sentinel report.
E.A. Conway Medical Center in Monroe, La., began sending notices to 38 employees this week, notifying them of impending layoffs, according to a News Star report.
In an Oct. 17 webinar from Healthcare Collaboration, healthcare leaders discussed best practices for hospital executives and management teams to prepare their organizations for disaster.
Administrators at Blue Hill (Maine) Memorial Hospital are crediting a buyout program for saving the hospital $400,000 annually and avoiding the need for layoffs, according to a Bangor Daily News report.