Seattle Children’s Hospital and University of Washington are planning to construct a 184-unit apartment complex for their employees, according to a Seattle Times report. The project is estimated to cost $40 million. The university is providing the land, and the…
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Approximately 4,000 nurses represented by the California Nurses Association plan to strike tomorrow unless the union reaches an agreement with their employer, Sutter Health, according to an ABC News report.
Wheeling (W.Va.) Hospital’s suit against The Health Plan of the Upper Ohio Valley, based in Morgantown, W.Va., has been delayed in court, but a physician took the matter into his own hands and successfully recouped the money the payor owed…
Providence Health & Services, based in Everett, Wash., has accepted 172 voluntary layoffs out of 335 applications as part of efforts to fill a $61 million budget shortfall, according to a Spokesman-Review report.
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.
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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…
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…