Amid the rumbling shifts of healthcare reform is another change taking place within America’s hospitals: the graying of the C-suite. The departure of longtime CEOs is signaling an influx of first-time leaders — a recent Witt/Kieffer survey found 41 percent…
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After an election last week, Workers at El Camino Hospital in Mountainview, Calif., will keep their union — Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West — according to a Palo Alto Daily News report. Roughly 80 percent of nearly 1,200…
Lower reimbursement and increasing levels of uninsured patients has led Lourdes Medical Center in Pasco, Wash., to lay off 19 employees and reduce work hours for other employees, according to a Tri-City Herald report.
Port Huron (Mich.) Hospital has cut 50 full-time positions and eliminated some programs to make up for losses stemming from reduced federal and state reimbursements, according to a Times Herald report.
Healthcare as we know it is in a state of flux. Medical advancements and innovations have given us the tools to maintain health and treat disease in a way that was never thought possible even a half century ago. Yet,…
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The number of urgent care clinics within retail outlets, including discount retailers and pharmacies grew more than 10 percent during 2011, according to the ConvUrgentCare Report, 2011 Year in Review.
CHRISTUS St. Vincent Medical Center in Sante Fe, N.M., has proposed several nurse staffing changes that nurses said could lead to "significant" increases in their workloads, according to an Albuquerque Journal report.
While change management poses challenges in any hospital department, implementing change within a hospital's OR suite may be the most difficult as the operating room has an impact on every part of an institution. In order to implement change and…
A union representing workers at El Camino Hospital in Mountainview, Calif., has filed a complaint with the Public Employment Relations Board, claiming hospital administrators intentionally delayed the counting of election votes to decertify the union, according to a San Jose…
Franklin, Tenn.-based Capella Healthcare is closing its Hartselle (Ala.) Medical Center at the end of this month, according to a Tennessean report. The 150-bed Hartselle averages fewer than eight medical-surgical patients per day, since many seek care at other hospitals…