What professional lessons can hospital leaders learn from the 2012 presidential debates? Quite a few, according to Kristen Hayner, senior executive advisor with healthcare communications firm Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock.
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Faulkner Hospital in Boston is changing its name to become Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital to reflect its 14-year long affiliation with the Harvard University teaching hospital.
Joseph Quagliata served as the president and CEO of South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, N.Y., from October 1998 through December 2012.
Roughly 209 unionized nurses from Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, Mass., are striking for the day over failed contract negotiations.
Lander (Wyo.) Regional Hospital and Riverton (Wyo.) Memorial Hospital — both owned by Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals — are conducting joint strategic planning, according to a Ranger report.
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The board of directors of Baton Rouge-based Louisiana State University Health System has approved a $151.8 million budget cut plan that will lay off nearly 1,500 employees starting in January 2013, according to a Shreveport Times report.
Everyone agrees that the nation's health system is under severe pressure to provide the quality of care that Americans have come to expect at a price we can afford. But there's good news: Despite the ambiguity surrounding the Patient Protection…
James B. Cole has served as president and CEO of Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington since 1994.
Southbridge, Mass.-based Harrington HealthCare System is laying off 12 employees and freezing wages for its entire workforce of about 1,300 people, according to a Worcester Telegram report.
Mercy in Toledo, Ohio, is laying off 38 people and curbing hours for 20 other employees as part of a reorganization plan, according to a Toledo Blade report.