The American Hospital Association is urging CMS to withdraw a final rule that revised critical access hospitals' conditions of participation in Medicare and Medicaid, saying CMS did not propose the rules before making them final.
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Belmond (Iowa) Medical Center and Wright Medical Center in Clarion, Iowa, have changed their names to Iowa Specialty Hospital, according to a Globe Gazette report.
The loss of healthcare jobs shouldn't be a factor when designing strategies to cut healthcare costs, according to an op-ed penned by two Harvard economists and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Richard Liekweg became president of St. Louis-based Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital as well as group president of BJC HealthCare in September 2009. Barnes-Jewish has been named one of America's best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report…
Half of hospital and health system senior executives say physician engagement is the top barrier to their organization's participation in the Value-Based Purchasing Program, according to a Forbes Insights survey.
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Oak Brook, Ill.-based Witt/Kieffer has formed a new practice, Solutions for Exceptional Leadership, a portfolio of best practices for healthcare leaders.
Many healthcare providers don't want to be known as "hospital systems" anymore. Some hospitals and health systems are taking reform into their own hands by redefining their brand, mission and business strategies to better reflect the contemporary broader values of…
Officials from University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester have reached an agreement with the local United Food and Commercial Workers Union following union protests in the spring, according to a GoLocalWorcester report.
Ohio's public colleges could go completely smoke-free, a change inspired by Cleveland Clinic CEO Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, MD, according to a Plain Dealer report.
CEOs and leaders from 11 prominent hospitals and health systems designed a 10-item checklist to improve healthcare quality while reducing costs, published by the Institute of Medicine.