About 4,500 unionized nurses from Sutter Health facilities in California are planning a one-day strike Wednesday to protest contracts that have been in negotiation for roughly a year, according to a CBS San Francisco report.
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Roughly 200 employees with Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven, Conn., could lose their jobs by the end of July due to a pending merger with Yale-New Haven Hospital, according to a New Haven Register report.
Gundersen Lutheran Health System in La Crosse, Wis., may undertake a rebranding campaign that could involve dropping "Lutheran" from its name, according to a La Crosse Tribune report.
"Great managers understand what they did yesterday, what they have to do today and what they have to do tomorrow. Great leaders understand who they were yesterday, who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow," says Ira…
Steven Safyer, MD, is president and CEO of Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. Montefiore is the university hospital and academic medical center for Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., and a full-service, integrated delivery system caring…
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Demand for chief patient experience officers is spiking as hospitals aim to ace patient satisfaction scores under value-based purchasing, which will go into effect in October, according to a Crain' New York Business report.
Running a company that interacts closely with patients and hospitals, we have a mandate to deliver a consistently high level of service to everyone we touch. We make no secret that our workplace culture is the driver behind that service.…
Many hospitals and other players in the healthcare industry have been taking careful note of the increasing talk of "medical tourism" and "medical travel," often with an eye on strategic investments related to what is apparently a fast-growing market. With…
Baton Rouge, La.-based Ochsner Health System has announced an agreement with King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia for physician and staff training and various program collaborations.
Glenn Steele Jr., MD, PhD, joined Geisinger Health System as president and CEO on March 1, 2001. As president and CEO, Dr. Steele leads a health system recently recognized by Thomson Reuters as one of the 100 Top Hospitals. He…