Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska, has renewed its management contract with Quorum Health Resources, which has provided management services at the hospital for "decades," according to a Juneau Empire report.
Leadership & Management
Kevin Tabb, MD, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, has said Massachusetts is at least five years ahead of the rest of the country in terms of healthcare reform, but that today’s current healthcare environment is still…
The Massachusetts Nurses Association will protest Boston-based Steward Health Care's "cut throat" business practices outside of its parent company Cerberus' headquarters in New York City.
While healthcare organizations generally regard patient satisfaction as a worthy pursuit, it often takes a back seat to more mission critical tasks. But as CMS rolls out its Hospital Inpatient Value-based Purchasing Program and the financial impact of HCAHPS scores…
Sustainability is not a new topic, but it is an ever-evolving one. From a once fringe group effort to a mainstream requirement, the movement has literally grown up in the past 10 years across the nation. But where does it…
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Hospital facilities are popping up in closer proximity to one another as part of a nationwide building boom, with San Francisco, Denver and Chicago spending the most on hospital projects in the past two years, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review…
Hawaii Medical Center announced in bankruptcy court that it could not reach a sale price for its two hospitals with Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services, forcing closure of both facilities, according to a Hawaii News Now report.
A recent study published online by the American Journal of Managed Care found that retail clinic use by insured patients has increased ten-fold from 2007 to 2009.
Legacy Health Systems, based in Portland, Ore., announced it may lay off as many as 400 employees across its six hospitals, according to a KPTV report.
Most providers recognize that the underlying healthcare cost pressures the government, employers and consumers face will inevitably lead to changes in how care is reimbursed, progressing in time toward a new form of managed care that preserves consumer choice and…