Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix is a part of Maricopa Integrated Health System in Phoenix.
Leadership & Management
The University of Miami Hospital has reached a labor agreement with the Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 1,700 hospital employees, according to a South Florida Business Journal report.
Auburn (Wash.) Regional Medical Center is laying off 827 employees, but many of those laid off are expected to be hired by the hospital's acquirer, Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System, according to a Puget Sound Business Journal report.
Sonora (Calif.) Regional Medical Center has laid off 13 employees and is also reducing overtime and work hours for other staff members, according to a Union Democrat report.
The challenges confronting health systems and physicians over the next decade are staggering. Opportunities to reduce cost while improving patient care are manifest throughout the delivery system. Consider, for example, the opportunity to reduce readmission rates for Medicare patients. Elimination…
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Ora H. Pescovitz, MD, became the first female CEO of Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health System and executive vice president for medical affairs in May 2009.
Critics say roughly 900 layoffs at University of Miami's medical school this past spring were prompted by overly-aggressive expansion and a failed strategic plan — not unforeseen financial circumstances, according to a Miami Herald report.
Highlands Hospital in Connellsville, Pa., is preparing for layoffs after a competing hospital received permission to provide state-funded inpatient mental health services — something Highlands has provided most of in the past, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report.
Paul Ramsey, MD, is CEO of Seattle-based UW Medicine, executive vice president for medical affairs and dean of the school of medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle.