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Leadership & Management

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente recently completed five standalone emergency and outpatient centers in the Washington, D.C., area — a move a Bloomberg report calls an attempt to "shake up" the East Coast market and draw patients away from hospital-based emergency…

Despite larger hospitals' greater resources for social media efforts, smaller hospitals spend more time building Facebook pages and are more likely to use them effectively, suggests research presented at the Medicine 2.0 conference in Boston earlier this month.

MedCath, a hospital operator based in Charlotte, N.C., filed paperwork to dissolve, according to a Charlotte Observer report.

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Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee, Ill., is part of Riverside HealthCare, a fully integrated healthcare system serving Kankakee, Iroquois, Will and Grundy counties in Illinois.

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